Kassams continue to rain down on Israel daily. Closing the crossings just isn’t enough. What is Barak waiting for?
Two Qassam rockets were fired from northern Gaza towards Israel on Thursday afternoon, one of them landed near a kibbutz in the Sha’ar HaNegev Regional Council.
No injuries were reported and no damage was caused.
Shortly after 3:40 pm the Color Red rocket alert sirens blared throughout Sderot and neighboring communities in the western Negev, sending residents running to bomb shelters.
Fatah’s military wing, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, claimed responsibility for the fire. The organization said this was in response to the killing to Talal Abad near Jenin on Wednesday.
That would be this killing, of a Palestinian who refused to stop even after shots were being fired in the air.
Earlier on Thursday a Palestinian man was killed by IDF fire near the Kissufim crossing. The army said that at around 4:00 am soldiers manning an observation post spotted a suspicious figure advancing towards the security fence near the Kissufim crossing on the Gaza border. Infantry troops who were alerted to the scene called for the man to halt and fired warning shots in the air.
However the man continued to advance towards the Israeli side of the border, at which point the soldiers fired in the air once more and then aimed at the suspect’s lower body; when he did not stop the soldiers resumed their fire and killed him.
The AP spins it, of course. Read the article and see how they manage to blame Israel for the rocket attack in the lead. Notice also how many ways they paint the 18-year-old as a “teenager” or “youth”.
Israeli troops shot and killed a teenage Palestinian militant along the country’s border with Gaza Thursday in the first deadly incident since the two sides reached a cease-fire last month.
A faction of the militant group Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades said the 18-year-old killed in Gaza belonged to its ranks. It vowed revenge and claimed responsibility for two rockets fired at southern Israel after the shooting.
“We will not let this crime pass silently,” the group said in a text message to reporters.
Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, which had previously violated the June 19 truce by firing rockets at Israel, did not say what the militant was doing along the border.
Gee. Planting bombs? Scouting for terrorist attacks? Setting up rocket launchers? Who knows?
The AP also managed to present Hamas as the voice of moderation—for not “vowing revenge” over the killing of a terrorist.
Hamas, the Islamic militant group which rules Gaza, said it considered the pre-dawn shooting a violation of the cease-fire, but did not vow revenge.
Gee, Hamas. Thanks for not promising to murder civilians because soldiers killed a terrorist who refused to stop coming towards them. And it’s not like the terror groups are denying he was one of theirs. Not that it makes a difference to AP.
Israeli troops fired on the youth after he did not respond to warning shots and calls to stop, a military spokesman said. The soldiers thought he was armed but, after inspecting the body, found that he was not, the spokesman said.
And again… an Israeli spokesman is contacted and spoken to, but not identified. Israeli spokesmen are almost never identified. There are three direct quotes from identified Palestinians, including a member of Hamas.
Your objective media, hard at work.
It’s not like Israel didn’t warn about this first.