New Violence: Militants Again Unleash Missile Attacks on Israel
- Posted on August 24, 2011 at 4:23pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Violence along the Gaza-Israel border heated up on Wednesday, with Israeli airstrikes on militant targets and militant rocket fire at Israel.
Israeli media reported that security forces sent down reinforcements to the area. A music festival that was to be held in the southern city of Ashkelon was canceled, conforming with military recommendations against large gatherings in tense security times, the military said.
Israeli aircraft killed a militant from Gaza’s Islamic Jihad faction before dawn on Wednesday, Hamas security officials said. They later targeted two militants who had fired two mortars at Israel shortly before. No casualties were reported in that airstrike.
The Israeli military said the dead militant had smuggled weapons into Gaza and was involved in militant activity in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, near Israel’s southern border. It did not elaborate.
A militant incursion into Israel from Sinai last week killed eight Israelis. That was followed by Palestinian rocket attacks and Israeli airstrikes that have not stopped despite a cease-fire reached on Sunday
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Vigilante
Posted on August 28, 2011 at 4:25pmI do not understand.
Report Post »These clowns protesting against Glenn Beck, and I do not see them protesting against these Muslim Militants.
Israel… We are with you all the way… I cannot say the samething about our BHO goverment.
What a shame!!!
ntahoe61
Posted on August 25, 2011 at 9:57pminvite all palis who want peace to visit Israel for a couple days, then turn gaza and west bank into a pile of rubble. then help the peace loving peoples re-build thier new country with Israels choice of borders seeing as they are the ONLY ONES not demanding more land and wiping anybody off the earth. I believe that they would be fair if they were’nt being murdered and attacked CONSTANTLY from these animals who just want to kill, maim and exterminate anybody who doesnt believe in pedophilia, raping thier women and children and if they complain kills them etc. etc. bod bless you all who support Israel
Report Post »IdahoGunNut
Posted on August 25, 2011 at 9:35pmI don’t see why the Israelis put up with this
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on August 25, 2011 at 10:30amIsrael has the right and the duty to defend itself and it’s people. Israel should go on the offensive. They should begin firing missiles into the cities of the arabs around the borders. See how they like it.
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on August 25, 2011 at 1:04amThere is no nation on the face of the earth who would be as patient as the Israelis are when it comes to defending themselves against the Hamas terrorists who are out to destroy them on a daily basis. And yet who does the Leftist thug-governments of the Western World defend? Not Israel, but the Islamic aggressors and perpetuators of hate and death and destruction!
Of the 22 conflicts going on in this world, Islamists are involved in 21 of them. Now why do you suppose that is?
It’s time for the people of the world to take a stand. On the right side. On the side of sanity and life.
Report Post »Carol Ingian
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 11:03pmIsrael has the right to exist, and the right to defend themselves.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on August 24, 2011 at 9:43pmGood thing Blaze told us this…….probably won’t see it anywhere else!! Think Sunday’s cease-five lasted 1-2 hours before more rocket attacks came into Israel.
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