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Two Rockets Hit Israel as Gaza Truce Firms Up
[An Nahar] Militants in the Gazoo Strip fired two rockets into southern Israel on Friday, officials said, as a fledgling truce in and around the Paleostinian territory firmed up.
Notice the wording. Not that "two rockets were fired and hit Israel," but that two rockets were fired into Israel. No word on how many rockets were fired overall, but past experience suggests one or more rockets landed elsewhere -- whether within Gaza or in Jordan or Egypt will likely ne'er be known.
"One rocket hit an empty field in the Eshkol region, causing no damage or injuries," police spokeswoman Luba Samri told Agence La Belle France Presse.
The firing is more important than the aiming, assuming the things can be aimed...
An additional rocket hit an uninhabited area of the northwestern Negev desert early on Friday morning, according to the Israeli military.

Israel and the Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
group, which was responsible for much of the rocket fire during a major upsurge in cross-border violence though last weekend, agreed on Tuesday to begin observing an Egyptian-brokered truce.

Since then, 13 rockets hit Israel and another three were intercepted by the Iron Dome anti-missile system, according to the military.
Clearly, to the Gazans observe means to watch rather than to do.
But despite the exchanges, another major flare-up has so far been avoided, and the violence has returned to its dimensions of the first nine weeks of 2012, in which over 50 rockets and mortars hit Israel.

Schools in several areas of southern Israel, including the main Negev city of Beersheva and the Mediterranean coastal towns of Ashdod and Ashkelon, remained closed as a precaution on Friday.

On Thursday, faceless myrmidons fired five rockets from Gazoo but none caused any casualties.
Posted by: Fred 2012-03-17
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