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BREAKING: Israel Responds to Hamas Rocket Attack With Gaza Air Strikes

Posted on | July 30, 2010 | 8 Comments

CNN reports:

Israel launched a series of airstrikes in Gaza starting late Friday in response to a rocket assault on Ashkelon earlier in the day.
The Israel Defense Forces said the strikes targeted three locations in Gaza: a Hamas “terror-activity site” in the north, a weapons manufacturing site in central Gaza and a weapons smuggling tunnel in Rafah.
The first strike around 11:30 p.m. (4:30 p.m. ET) hit a runway near the compound of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, which is now occupied by Hamas . . .

UPDATE I: Jerusalem Post:

Earlier on Friday, the Foreign Ministry instructed Israeli ambassadors to file an immediate complaint to the president of the UN Security Council and the Human Rights Council in Geneva following the attack in Ashkelon and mortar fire in the western Negev on Friday.
“In the complaint, Israel will emphasize that the grad missile launch on a city the size of Ashkelon, is a clear attempt to kill men, women and children and is a clear violation of international law and sheds light on the murderous, barbaric and violent intent of the missile attack,” said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Yossi Levy.
A Grad missile launched from the Gaza Strip landed in a central, residential area in the southern city of Ashkelon Friday morning.

UPDATE II: About the rocket attack on Ashkelon:

[T]he attack ended over a year of calm for the Israeli city closest to Gaza.
A police spokesman said the rocket was a 122mm, Chinese-made Grad, with a heavier payload and greater range than the crude, homemade rockets Gaza militants were launching daily until Israel’s three-week military offensive into Gaza 18 months ago. . . .
Ashkelon, with a population of 125,000, lies on the coast about 12 km (7 miles) north of the Gaza Strip. The mayor said it was the most serious attack on the city since Israel wound up its offensive in January 2009, largely ending Gaza rocket fire.

Hmmmm. It’s almost as if they’re saying that Israel’s Gaza incursion was effective or something.

FLASHBACK: “Sonny Corleone in Gaza.”

Category: Israel

Comments

8 Responses to “BREAKING: Israel Responds to Hamas Rocket Attack With Gaza Air Strikes”

  1. MrPaulRevere
    July 31st, 2010 @ 2:53 am

    Godspeed to the IAF.

  2. MrPaulRevere
    July 30th, 2010 @ 10:53 pm

    Godspeed to the IAF.

  3. Kojocaro
    July 31st, 2010 @ 3:10 am

    wonder how the left will react? ya know what no i do not

  4. Kojocaro
    July 30th, 2010 @ 11:10 pm

    wonder how the left will react? ya know what no i do not

  5. Estragon
    July 31st, 2010 @ 6:41 am

    Modern forensic technology may make it possible to trace the provenance of the Chinese missile to the original buyer. It would hardly surprise me if it were charged to George Soros’ American Express card (although he if anyone should have access to plenty of laundered cash).

  6. Estragon
    July 31st, 2010 @ 2:41 am

    Modern forensic technology may make it possible to trace the provenance of the Chinese missile to the original buyer. It would hardly surprise me if it were charged to George Soros’ American Express card (although he if anyone should have access to plenty of laundered cash).

  7. JeffS
    July 31st, 2010 @ 1:47 pm

    The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist. Way to go, IAF!

  8. JeffS
    July 31st, 2010 @ 9:47 am

    The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist. Way to go, IAF!