Israël heeft het natuurlijk allemaal weer gedaan! en update
JERUZALEM/GAZA Bij een confrontatie tussen Israëlische militairen en pro-Palestijnse actievoerders voor de kust van Israël zijn vanmorgen vroeg zeker tien doden en tientallen gewonden gevallen. Onder de gewonden zijn ook zes Israëlische commandos.
Zes schepen, met aan boord in totaal zon 750 activisten en 10.000 ton hulpgoederen, waren sinds zondag vanuit Cyprus op weg naar de kust voor de Gazastrook, met de bedoeling daar hulpgoederen te lossen. Israël had het konvooi aangeboden aan te leggen in Ashdod, waarna de goederen over land naar Gaza konden worden getransporteerd.
Ondanks de Israëlische waarschuwing dat het niet zou toestaan dat de schepen de Gazastrook bereiken, zetten de actievoerders hun tocht voort. Zondagavond maakte de Israëlische marine contact met het konvooi en sommeerde het rechtsomkeert te maken of naar de haven van Ashdod te varen. Toen de activisten hieraan geen gehoor gaven, gingen Israëlische commandos de afgelopen nacht rond 2.00 uur aan boord van de schepen.
Op de vaartuigen werden de soldaten opgewacht door activisten, gewapend met messen, stalen pijpen en knuppels. Ook werd het geweer van een van de soldaten afhandig gemaakt en werd op de militairen geschoten. In de daaropvolgende confrontatie schoten de commandos zeker tien activisten dood. Tientallen anderen raakten gewond, onder wie zes militairen. Turkse bronnen spreken van zestien doden.
Een officier van het Israëlische leger verklaarde tegenover The Jerusalem Post dat de militairen met een goed geplande lynchpoging werden geconfronteerd.
Internationaal is met verontwaardiging op de actie gereageerd. De Turkse premier Erdogan brak een reis naar Latijns-Amerika af de meeste schepen waren afkomstig uit Turkije. Diverse landen hebben de Israëlische ambassadeur op het matje geroepen voor opheldering. Minister Verhagen van Buitenlandse Zaken toonde zich vanmorgen geschokt.
De Hoge Commissaris voor de Mensenrechten van de Verenigde Naties, Navi Pillay, heeft geschokt gereageerd. Ik ben geschokt dat de humanitaire hulp in de vroege ochtend op geweld is gestuit, aldus Pillay.
Pillay sprak nogmaals haar zorg uit over de humanitaire situatie in de Gazastrook. De blokkades ondermijnen elke dag de mensenrechten in de Gazastrook, zei ze.
Ambassadeurs van de 27 EU-landen komen maandagmiddag met spoed bijeen om over de confrontatie te praten. Een woordvoerder van EU-buitenlandchef Catherine Ashton heeft dat maandag gezegd.
Ashton stelde eerder op de ochtend al elke gewelddadige handeling sterk af te keuren. Ze noemde opnieuw de Israëlische sluiting van de Gazastrook onaanvaardbaar.
Lees hier nog een verslag:
http://www.cidi.nl/Nieuws/Nieuwsberichten/Ooggetuige-1e-mariniers-hadden-slechts-paintball-guns.html
Update: dit gebeurde vanavond in Nederland
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtj_RL8n9UM
Tel Aviv, 26 maart. Bij de ernstigste vuurgevechten sinds meer dan een jaar zijn vandaag aan de grens van de Gazastrook twee Israëlische militairen en twee Palestijnen omgekomen. Er zouden twee Israëlische en een onbekend aantal Palestijnse gewonden zijn gevallen.
De veertien maanden durende periode van relatieve kalmte in de geïsoleerde Gazastrook staat onder grote druk. Ooggetuigen en journalisten in Gaza meldden vanavond dat tanks en bulldozers de smalle kuststrook binnendrongen, ook melden zij luchtaanvallen.
Israël houdt de islamitische beweging Hamas, dat Gaza bestuurt, verantwoordelijk voor de doden. Volgens het Israëlische leger probeerden militanten dichtbij grens explosieven te plaatsen, en opende het leger toen het vuur, waarna de soldaten Gaza binnentrokken. Israël heeft de grens van de Gazastrook hermetisch afgesloten en gebruikt honderden meters land als bufferzone.
Volgens een woordvoerder van Hamas drongen Israëlische troepen de Gazastrook binnen en schoten leden van de gewapende vleugel van Hamas, de Qassam Brigades, terug. Het Palestijnse persbureau Maan meldt dat verschillende wijken in Khan Younis gisteravond bestookt werden door gevechtsvliegtuigen en helikopters, met gewonden tot gevolg, onder wie een jongen van tien jaar.
Sinds Israël in de vorige winter een drie weken durende oorlog uitvocht in de Gazastrook, met circa 1.400 Palestijnse en dertien Israëlische doden als gevolg, zijn er weinig incidenten geweest. Hamas heeft geen belang bij escalatie, omdat het militair niet tegen Israël opgewassen is. Israël is niet in staat gebleken de regering van Hamas omver te werpen. Hamas heeft sinds 2007 de volledige macht in de Gazastrook, het concurrerende al-Fatah van president Mahmoud Abbas regeert op de bezette Westelijke Jordaanoever.
De spanning rondom Gaza nam de laatste weken snel toe. Vanuit Gaza werden weer zelfgemaakte raketten afgeschoten op Israël, met één dode als gevolg. Waarschijnlijk is dat het werk van salafistische groeperingen die aan invloed in het gebied winnen en de concurrentie met Hamas steeds openlijker aangaan. Israël bombardeerde onder meer smokkeltunnels aan de zuidelijke grens.
In de Gazastrook wonen ruim anderhalf miljoen Palestijnen in volledige isolatie. Secretaris-generaal Ban Ki-moon van de Verenigde Naties was zondag op bezoek in Gaza, waar hij Israël opriep een einde te maken aan de blokkade.
Het was een tijdje relatief rustig rondom Israël, of het moesten de harde woorden van Amerika tegen Israël zijn. Was dat misschien de reden voor het onderstaande:
Terwijl er een nieuwe EU chef de Gaza strook bezocht, was er een raket aanval vanuit die strook op Israël. Er viel 1 dode te betreuren een Thaise man die in een kibboets aan het werk was. Israël bestookte daarom wederom op hun beurt de Gaza strook. Er vielen twee gewonden en een aantal smokkeltunnels werden vernietigd. Hopelijk is dit niet een begin van het conflict, wat nog steeds voortduurd.
De Nederlandse media hebben er wederom nauwelijks aandacht aan besteed, de raket-aanvallen afgelopen week op Zuid-Israel. Ineens was er om onverklaarbare redenen een stijging in het aantal palestijnse raketaanvallen uit het door de terreurbeweging Hamas bestuurde Gaza, zo'n 20 raketten in totaal. De raket-aanvallen zijn een schending van de Israelische soevereiniteit. Zo werden afgelopen donderdag vanuit Gaza tenminste tien mortiergranaten afgevuurd op Zuid Israel; ze landden in de noordwestelijke Negev, bij de kust en bij de Kerem Shalom-grensovergang. Dit is juist de overgang waarlangs hulpgoederen Gaza binnenkomen en palestijnse landbouwproducten (via Israel) worden geexporteerd; er stonden op het moment van de aanval tientallen vrachtwagens met goederen te wachten. Na de beschieting werd de grensovergang uiteraard door Israel gesloten. Op diezelfde donderdag landde een Qassamraket vlakbij de Israelische stad Ashkelon en werd een IDF-grenspatrouille beschoten met een anti-tankraket. Hierbij vielen gelukkig geen gewonden. Eerder die week had het Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Russische Grad-raketten op Zuid-Israel afgeschoten en beschoot het Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) legervoertuigen met mortiergranaten. Het lijkt erop alsof aan Hamas gelieerde militante terreurbewegingen het conflict zoeken en Israel uitdagen. De internationale gemeenschap zwijgt en een veroordeling van de aanslagen blijft uit. Ondertussen wordt Israel nauwlettend in het oog gehouden en werd een Israelisch antwoord scherp veroordeeld. Premier Netanyahu waarschuwde echter direct na de raket-aanvallen dat Israel elke volgende aanval zou beantwoorden. Israel heeft uiteraard het recht haar burgerbevolking te beschermen. Na de aanvallen van afgelopen donderdag gooide de Israelische luchtmacht duizenden folders uit boven Gaza om de bevolking te waarschuwen dat zij uit de buurt van de grens moest blijven en smokkeltunnels moesten mijden. Op een van de folders stond een kaart die aangaf waar het onveilig was. Donderdagnacht voerde de IDF, zoals aangekondigd, een serie gerichte luchtaanvallen uit op Gaza City, Khan Younis en Rafah in de Gazastrook. Er waren vier doelen: een tunnel van de Gaza naar Israel, een wapenfabriek en twee smokkeltunnels naar Egypte. Bij de Israëlische verdedigingsaanvallen in de Gazastrook kwamen drie Palestijnen om het leven. Een van hen is een veertienjarige jongen. De terroristen lijken een oude strijdmethode te hebben hervat. Voor de Israelische militaire operatie Cast Lead eind 2008 - begin 2009 werden grensovergangen regelmatig door palestijnse terroristen beschoten en dan uiteraard door Israel om veiligheidsredenen gesloten. Dat gebeurde afgelopen donderdag opnieuw na de beschieting van Kerem Shalom. De grensovergang is volgens een regeringscommunique 'tot nader order' gesloten. Ondertussen blijft Egypte de doorgang van hulpgoederen voor Gaza blokkeren. Egypte is bezig met de bouw van een muur die Gaza volledig afsluit. Er is sprake van een groeiende spanning tussen palestijnen en Egypte en pro-palestijnse activisten voeren een harde strijd met Egyptische politiemannen en grenswachters.
Two boys are attacked one boy of 16 years is killed and ] a boy from 13 is wounded, but where you can read that story? (IsraelNN.com) Thousands of family, friends, and Israeli citizens wishing to express solidarity attended the funeral of Shlomo Nativ on Thursday. Shlomo, a Jewish youth from Bat Ayin, located south of Jerusalem, was murdered by an Arab terrorist Thursday morning
10 Gaza rockets hit Israel over weekend
Palestinian terrorists operating out of the Gaza Strip fired 10 rockets at southern Israel on Saturday and Sunday, causing no injuries and only moderate damage.
Four missiles hit the Eshkol and Sdot regions of southern Israel on Sunday morning, causing widespread panic when local early warning systems failed to activate.
Six more rockets hits the area throughout the day on Saturday, keeping most residents of southwestern Israel in bomb shelters.
Israeli aircraft responded to Saturday's rocket fire with overnight bombing runs against Hamas arms depots and smuggling tunnels in Gaza.
Everytime rockets hits Israël, but we read nothing in the news?
Two Kassam rockets hit open areas in the western Negev on Saturday evening. No one was wounded and no damage was reported, as one of the rockets hit the Eshkol region and the other landed in the Sha'ar Hanegev area.
There were no casualties in the Grad attack on Ashkelon earlier on Saturday, as the school was closed, though a number of residents were treated for shock. Another Grad rocket landed in an open area just outside the city.
Ashkelon residents reported hearing an air raid siren at 8:43 am, before a rocket tore through the school, destroying classrooms and spraying shrapnel in all directions
Following the rocket fire, the Ashkelon Municipality reactivated its emergency command and control center, situated in a bomb shelter adjacent to city hall, where situation analysis meetings have been scheduled for Saturday.
The center had served as a hub for coordinating emergency responses to the large numbers of rockets fired at the city during Operation Cast Lead.
"In light of the situation, we can say with certainty that the school struck by a rocket will not be open tomorrow. We will have to find an alternative solution for students. The remainder of the schools will open on Sunday," Deputy Mayor Shlomo Cohen said.
Cohen added that the municipality "shares the concerns of parents in light of the deterioration of the situation, but we must remember that carrying on in a routine manner means bolstering the education system and the whole of the city of Ashkelon."
A tour of the school by Ashkelon Municipality safety officials found that shrapnel damage had reached parts of the building which had been designated as safe zones by the Home Front Command.
The municipality has been waiting for two weeks for the Ministry of Defense to approve rocket reinforcement construction plans drawn up to protect schools in the city, Cohen said, adding that the school struck in Saturday's attack was on the list of schools waiting for protection.
"The Ashkelon Municipality has demanded that the school be equipped with inexpensive basic rocket protection reinforcement. The reinforcement plans have been approved by the municipality and the Home Front Command. They have been sitting on the desks of Defense Ministry officials for two weeks, waiting for approval," Cohen said.
On Saturday evening, the Ashkelon Municipality and the city's parents' council decided that although no classes would be held in the damaged school on Sunday, other schools would hold classes as usual.
Earlier on Saturday, a Kassam rocket struck an open area in the Eshkol region, causing no casualties or damage.
There were no immediate claims of responsibility by Palestinians.
On Friday, Gazans fired a Kassam that hit an open area in the Sdot Negev region. No one was wounded and no damage was caused by the rocket launched from northern Gaza.
And it is again trouble in the Midle East, from lLbanon, rockets came on Israël, one woman is wounded, and Israël bombed back. 2 Rockets hit Israel today http://tinyurl.com/dzwfwu #Gaza
The attack from Israël came in retaliation for three Kassam rockets that were fired at the nearby Israeli city of Sderot and the Eshkol region earlier in the day. The policy is one which the government has repeatedly told the ruling Hamas terrorist group would be carried out meticulously.
According to the Reuters news agency, the targeted operatives in Khan Yunis were members of the Popular Resistance Committees terrorist organization, one of three groups that kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit in a cross-border raid on June 25, 2006.
However, an Israeli army spokesman said the terrorists were members of the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization, and were preparing a bombing attack against Israel at the time of the strike.
Army Clashes with Rock Throwing PA Arabs Near Hevron
IDF troops clashed with rioting Palestinian Authority Arabs near the Abu Al-Rish checkpoint late Friday afternoon, where they are often delayed or prevented from entering the Ibrahimi Mosque, known to Jews as the Cave of the Patriarchs.
A massive gang of Arab teens and young adults began hurling rocks at the soldiers and at Jewish community members; Friday prayers, which are held on the Muslim Sabbath, are often a flashpoint for violent demonstrations by Arab worshippers and others whipped into a frenzy by nationalist clerics.
Military sources said the teenage leader of the rock-throwing gang that started the clash was killed in the melee when soldiers shot at the lower part of his body.
Arab officials accused IDF soldiers of shooting a 14-year-old teenager in the chest. The parents of the youth, Izz Ad-Din, condemned the IDF for the shooting, claiming their son had left the house to buy some dried goods at the corner store not far from the mosque.
Today again 3 rockets hit Israël, and who say something, about it!! There living people, I think all the time in fear, 24 ours a day. And not any protest!! We can only pray. http://twitter.com/QassamCount
Today its a important day for Israël they have elections, yesterday one of the candidats say this.
Netanyahu promises to keep Golan, undivided Jerusalem
In a final campaign push prior to Tuesday's general election, Likud Party leader Binyamin Netanyahu told supporters on Sunday that if elected prime minister, he will not allow the surrender of the Golan Heights or the division of Jerusalem in exchange for dubious peace deals with the Arabs.
During a tree planting ceremony on the Golan marking the Jewish holiday of Tu B'shvat, Netanyahu stated: "Jerusalem will not be divided again and ... the Golan will stay in our hands only if the Likud is victorious. If Kadima wins, we will leave the Golan."
Asked about this week's media reports of an imminent Egyptian-brokered truce with Hamas that would include the release of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, Netanyahu dismissed them as propaganda designed to boost the chances of his opponents.
Netanyahu warned that using Shalit to win additional votes could actually diminish chances of securing his safe release.
The Likud leader was highly critical of the Olmert government following the recent Gaza war for not making the downfall of Hamas one of its objectives. Instead, Israel has now been put in a position of having no choice but to negotiate indirectly with the Islamic terror group
Update 23.26 When a hamas rocket hit Israël, say the exit poll that Kadima wins the elections israelconsulate#Israel election, 10% counted: Kadima 22%, Likud 21%, Israel Beitenu 13%, Labor 11% Shas 10% #AskIsrael
Update 11 februari 2009 israelconsulate#Israel elections, 99% counted (# of seats): Kadima 28; Likud 27; Israel Beitenu 14; Labor 13; Shas 11; #AskIsraelabout 5 hours agofrom TweetDeck
But the voting must come today from all the soldiers! we must wait.
UN body suspends aid after Hamas steals 200 tons of supplies, including flour, basic commodities; Israeli officials: Hamas's "cruel face" exposed.
Its quit around the situation, against Israël and Gaza . Sometimes litle messages comes in the media, like this message above. Also the VN say now that Israël was not bombt on the six of jan. a school. And we wait for more, but the opion against Israël is laying, In Europe, many people are against Gods people. In Belgium a programm sets the Jewish people back to the second world war! Also the discussion with the priest who denied the killing of the Jewish people in the gaschambers! We as brothers and sisters must stood with our oldest brother and we must call it out, not only be silence. But that the world will now, we love Israël
Gaza terrorists resumed their attacks on southern Israeli civilian areas on Monday night, firing a Kassam rocket that hit a kibbutz in the Sha'ar Hanegev region.
Mortar squad terrorist killed in IAF strike in southern Gaza Strip
No one was wounded and no damage was reported in the attack, and the rocket warning siren was sounded.
Earlier Monday, minutes after a mortar shell struck an open area in the Eshkol region, IAF warplanes responded, launching a missile at a vehicle in the southern Gaza Strip.
According to witnesses in the area, one person was killed and three others were wounded in the attack. The IDF said that the men were part of the cell which fired the mortar shell into Israel.
RELATED Late Sunday night, IAF planes struck Hamas targets throughout Gaza after at least 15 Kassam rockets and mortar shells had hit the western Negev since the beginning of the day.
There has been growing frustration in the political echelon at the increasing Palestinian truce violations. On Monday, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that while Operation Cast Lead was effective in damaging Hamas's capability to threaten Israel, the day may come when a similar operation would be necessary.
"The quiet in the South is a result of the serious blow dealt to Hamas in Gaza, and even if it takes a little more time and a few more shots are fired, this is the nature of events of this kind," Barak told Army Radio, but he added that "if we have to, we will hit Hamas again."
The defense minister also said that Israel was interested in Egyptian cooperation in the battle to halt arms smuggling into Gaza through tunnels.
Late Sunday evening, the IAF struck rocket-launching pads in northern Gaza, as well as a Hamas security building in central Gaza and six smuggling tunnels on the border.
According to many Palestinians, Israel had sent them messages by phone, warning them in advance of an imminent IAF strike. There were no reports of casualties in the attack.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert promised a "harsh" and "disproportionate" response to the renewal of rocket fire into Israel when he addressed the cabinet on Sunday, shortly after a rocket landed near a kindergarten in the Eshkol region.
"The cabinet's position from the outset was that if firing continues against residents of the South, there will be a sharp Israeli response that would be disproportionate vis-á-vis the firing," he said.
The Palestinian Authority and Hamas leaders, meanwhile, were said to be close to reaching a Gaza cease-fire deal in talks with Egyptian officials in Cairo.
Yaakov Katz, Tovah Lazaroff, and Brenda Gazzar contributed to this report.
BRUSSELS, Belgium: A regional minister has been sharply criticized for alleging that Israeli forces targeted children during the offensive in Gaza.
Youth Minister Bert Anciaux of the Flemish regional government wrote on his blog that the killing of two babies at a day care center in Dendermonde, Belgium, last week reminded him of children in the Gaza Strip, "also consciously killed by an aggressor."
Members of the ruling coalition criticized Anciaux during Wednesday's legislative session, with Liberal Annick De Ridder saying he "should think twice before making such remarks." The Christian Democrats said they would no longer support Anciaux.
In a statement marking Holocaust Day, Foreign Minister Karel De Gucht said "Belgium continues its unwavering support for the existence of the state of Israel."
The new American Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, affirmed Israels right to defend her citizens in a press conference today, after Israel responded to a Palestinian attack on an IDF patrol. Reuters noted Clintons main concern would be to get a durable cease-fire on the ground and to attend to the needs of the civilian population.
However, she also noted,
It is regrettable that the Hamas leadership apparently believes that it is in their interest to provoke the right of self-defense instead of building a better future for the people of Gaza.
TODAY
The IDF Spokesman confirmed the strikes in an announcement, saying they were a response to a bomb attack against a military patrol along the border with the Gaza Strip which killed a warrant officer and wounded three others on Tuesday morning, including one who was severely hurt.
The IDF holds Hamas responsible for preserving the peace in Israel's South, and will respond harshly to any attempt at undermining it, the announcement added.
On Wednesdat morning, a Kassam rocket fired by Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip landed in an open field in the western Negev.
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On Tuesday the IDF had received a green light to respond harshly to the bomb attack, though defense officials would not provide details on the planned response, but said it would be in line with Israel's new policy to respond aggressively to any attack following the end of Operation Cast Lead earlier this month.
A Beduin tracker was killed and an officer was seriously wounded when a large bomb exploded next to their patrol along the border near the Kissufim Crossing. Two other soldiers were lightly wounded. The bombing was the first lethal attack by the Palestinians since Israel withdrew from Gaza last week.
The family of the fatality requested that neither his name nor his photo be published.
Following the incident, the IDF fired at several targets inside Gaza, and soldiers briefly crossed the border in search of the attackers. The troops left Gaza by nightfall after discovering several additional explosive devices that had been planted nearby. IDF sources said the terrorists had likely taken advantage of the heavy fog Tuesday morning to plant and detonate the device.
Following the attack, Israel closed its Gaza border crossings to humanitarian aid traffic after briefly opening them Tuesday morning. Gaza border official Raed Fattouh said Israeli officials had informed him the closure was due to the attack.
Amos Gilad, head of the Defense Ministry's Diplomatic-Security Bureau, said Israel's response would not be limited to closing the crossings into Gaza.
"The response will not be the way it used to be," Gilad said in a speech at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv. "The equation has changed."
In the afternoon, a helicopter gunship struck a motorbike in Khan Yunis that was reportedly carrying a Hamas operative involved in the attack.
The IDF said it was possible that the bombing had not been carried out directly by Hamas, but by other Palestinian terror groups.
IAF helicopters hovered in the air firing machine gun bursts, Palestinian witnesses said. An IAF jet set off a loud sonic boom over Gaza City not long afterward, possibly as a warning. Palestinians reported that several people were wounded when IDF tank shells hit residential buildings in the Strip.
Not long after the bombing, a 27-year-old Gaza farmer was killed by Israeli gunfire along the border several kilometers away, according to Dr. Moaiya Hassanain of Gaza's Health Ministry. Two other Palestinians were wounded.
The army had no comment, and it was unclear whether the two incidents were related
One Israeli soldier was killed and three others were wounded on Tuesday morning when terrorists in the Gaza Strip detonated a roadside bomb against their patrol vehicle along the border fence.
Other Israeli troops engaged the terrorists, killing one according to Palestinian sources.
It was the first serious act of violence since Israel and Hamas declared separate unilateral ceasefires ending the 21-day Gaza war more than a week ago.
Israel's leadership previously declared that any violations of the ceasefire would be met with a ferocious Israeli military response.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak called the bombing "a serious attack. We cannot accept it and we will respond."
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who like Barak is trying to bolster her security credentials ahead of next month's general election, said that "Israel needs to respond" to the latest provocation.
Whether those threats translate into action against Hamas remains to be seen. As much as Barak and Livni want to be seen by Israelis as capable wardens of the nation's security, they also fear a major international diplomatic backlash, especially with a new president in Washington.
Het was een tijdje relatief rustig rondom Israël, of het moesten de harde woorden van Amerika tegen Israël zijn.
Two boys are attacked one boy of 16 years is killed and ] a boy from 13 is wounded, but where you can read that story? (IsraelNN.com) Thousands of family, friends, and Israeli citizens wishing to express solidarity attended the funeral of Shlomo Nativ on Thursday. Shlomo, a Jewish youth from Bat Ayin, located south of Jerusalem, was murdered by an Arab terrorist Thursday morning
10 Gaza rockets hit Israel over weekend
Palestinian terrorists operating out of the Gaza Strip fired 10 rockets at southern Israel on Saturday and Sunday, causing no injuries and only moderate damage.
Four missiles hit the Eshkol and Sdot regions of southern Israel on Sunday morning, causing widespread panic when local early warning systems failed to activate.
Six more rockets hits the area throughout the day on Saturday, keeping most residents of southwestern Israel in bomb shelters.
Israeli aircraft responded to Saturday's rocket fire with overnight bombing runs against Hamas arms depots and smuggling tunnels in Gaza.
Everytime rockets hits Israël, but we read nothing in the news?
