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The view from Gaza: Israel bombards Gaza for second day
2012-03-11
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli warplanes continued to strike several targets across the Gazoo Strip overnight and early Saturday morning for the second day bringing the corpse count to 12, and injuries to 20.

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...
's military wing the Al-Quds Brigades said in a statement that 10 of their fighters were killed since Friday. It said the group launched 41 Grad missiles, 20 homemade projectiles, six mortar shells, and three 107-mm rockets at Israeli targets.
So then the rest of the 100 thingies launched at Israel must have been put up in the air by the PRC. See? Math isn't so hard.
A Ma'an news hound identified the 12 dead as Muhammad al-Ghamry, Fayiq Saad, Muatasim Hajjaj, Ubeid Gharabli, Muhammad Hararah, Hazim Qureiqi, Shadi Sayqali, Zuheir al-Qaysi, Mahmoud Hanani, Muhammad Maghari, Mahmoud Najim, and Ahmad Hajjaj.

Medical sources, meanwhile, said 26-year-old Muhammad al-Ghamry succumbed to wounds he sustained Saturday morning as Israeli warplanes targeted a car on Salah Ad-Din Street off the coast in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gazoo Strip.

They said Islamic Jihad operatives Ahmad Hajjaj, Fayiq Saad, and Muatasim Hajjaj were targeted by fighter jets early Saturday as they were walking near the building of the Paleostinian Legislative Council in the Shujaiyyah neighborhood in Gazoo City. Fayiq Saad and Muatasim Hajjaj were killed immediately, while Ahmad Hajjaj sustained mortal wounds and was pronounced dead shortly after he was evacuated.

In Beit Lahiya in the northern Gazoo Strip, an Israeli Arclight airstrike killed Muhammad Maghari and Mahmoud Najim on Hutayba street early Saturday.

Another Israeli raid injured four Paleostinians from the same family as a rocket hit a basement on Yarmouk Street in Gazoo City, according to medical sources.

Warplanes also targeted a military base used by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,' military wing the al-Qassam Brigades in western Gazoo City. The base was hit twice. No injuries have been reported, however, the attack resulted in power cuts in several neighborhoods.

Another Arclight airstrike hit a security base west of Rafah in the southern Gazoo Strip.

Israel's military says over 45 rockets have struck sites in the south, injuring four people, one severely, one moderately and two lightly.

It's "Iron Dome" missile defense system has intercepted over 10 Grad rockets
...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km....
which the army says which were fired at the cities of Beer Sheva, Ashdod and Ashkelon.

Israel said its aircraft targeted two weapon manufacturing facilities and two rocket launching sites in northern Gazoo, a weapon manufacturing facility in central Gazoo and a "terror activity site" in southern Gazoo.

Aircraft targeted a fighter in central Gazoo and six additional squads who were in the final stages of preparing to fire rockets at Israel from separate locations in northern and central Gazoo, the army said.
Posted by:trailing wife

#16  Elder of Zion, does the link I added go where you intended? Yours looks bigger, but g(r)omgoru's has the most adorable pink trimmings. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2012-03-11 21:41  

#15  I didn't really check Israeli artillery first.

I just sort of have a soft spot for 105mm Howitzers, and it sort of seems right for plinking into Gaza. For example, get a few, used, and issue them and a hundred rounds out to Sderot, and anyone else pestered by Gazan rockets.

Officially, they could say that they were trying to "shoot down" the incoming rockets, so it's not their fault that misses cause damage where they land.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2012-03-11 18:34  

#14  I cant post a photo in the comment
Posted by: Elder of Zion   2012-03-11 18:19  

#13  
Posted by: Elder of Zion   2012-03-11 18:14  

#12  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:M107_Firing_Vietnam_2.jpg
Posted by: Elder of Zion   2012-03-11 18:12  

#11  
Besoker,
take a look at this.
we needed two/three people to lift the round to the rear locking mechanism.Link


Those were the days
Posted by: Elder of Zion   2012-03-11 18:11  

#10  Not THAT is a gun!
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-03-11 16:51  

#9  This one.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-03-11 16:48  

#8  Thanks for the link g(r)om. Which one of these is you?

Link
Posted by: Besoeker   2012-03-11 16:39  

#7  I used to serve in a 175mm mobile guns unit

I was 10 years, as reservist, with Ro'ems.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-03-11 16:33  

#6  Some of the comments at the article are... disturbing.

But not unexpected considering the article itself.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2012-03-11 14:24  

#5  Anonymoose,
Why not 155mm howitzers ? ( we dont have 105 mm any more).
I used to serve in a 175mm mobile guns unit, these shells were real whoppers. Unfortunately the IDF does not have them any more.
Posted by: Elder of Zion   2012-03-11 14:21  

#4  "I like how the articles headline makes it sound like the Israelis are just out and about bombing gaza for no reason whatso ever"

Yes, and Israel is always mentioned first. Israel is the action noun. Israel is always the aggressor.

Posted by: newc   2012-03-11 13:31  

#3  Among the dead paleos are some fairly important ones, and some of the dead are Hamas, not just IJ and PRC.

Hamas and Egypt are beginning to make noises like they've had enough.
Posted by: Lord Garth   2012-03-11 10:45  

#2  Ilike how the articles headline makes it sound like the Israelis are just out and about bombing gaza for no reason whatso ever
Posted by: chris   2012-03-11 10:14  

#1  Israel used to have a clear policy of killing 10 Paleos for every Israeli the Paleos killed. They need to expand on this policy about the use of rockets. For every rocket the Paleos send, Israel should respond with 10 rockets.

I personally would prefer that they give training to 105mm Howitzer gunners at a rate of 10 to 1.

They could even give the Paleos a freebie every now and then, firing a smoke barrage instead of HE, just to keep them on their toes.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2012-03-11 10:10  

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