Three more rockets hit two more areas in Israel. The rockets have been falling every day (the AP is for some reason saying “near-daily rocket attacks”), and we have yet to hear a peep out of the crowd of Israel-bashers about Hamas stopping the rocket fire. Except, of course, for the mealy-mouthed “We call on both sides to show restraint” types.
A Qassam rocket fired from the northern Gaza Strip on Friday morning landed in an open area in the city of Ashkelon’s southern industrial zone. There were no reports of injuries or damage.
Two mortar shells were fired at the Kissufim area in southern Israel. There were no injuries or damage in this incident as well. The Salah al-Din Brigades, the Popular Resistance Committee’s military wing, claimed responsibility for the mortars fired at Kissufim.
The Gaza crossings stay shut. Lucky for us, it’s Friday, so the world condemnation gets muted a bit as the usual crowd of Israel-bashers finds other things to occupy its time.
And since it’s Friday, the weekly riot against Israel is going on in Bil’in.
Two demonstrators were lightly wounded Friday in clashes with security forces during an anti-security fence protest in the Palestinian village of Bil’in, west of Ramallah.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire was among the demonstrators.
Gee, that Israel-hater really gets around. Maybe we got lucky and she was one of the wounded. Naaaah. It’d be a major newsflash on the wire services if that had happened.
Do you think she called on the Palestinians to stop firing rockets into Israel?
I’m thinking not.
Now that Iran has enough fissile material for a weapon, I fear that Israel may have to worry about a different kind of rocket.
They’re shooting missiles and lobbing mortar shells into Israel? Golly, I hope the Israelis don’t respond because that would shatter the fragile truce.