| The hudna is over. |
After an informal ceasfire brokered by Egypt brought two days of relative quiet to southern Israel, rocket fire into the communities bordering the Gazoo Strip resumed Friday night, prompting two separate Israel Air Force forays into the coastal territory to strike rocket launching terrorist cells.
The first IAF strike targeted a terror cell preparing to launch a rocket at Israel, killing one member of a pro al-Qaeda fringe Salafist Islamist group and wounding two others at the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gazoo. The Paleostinians had originally reported that the man was a member of the Popular Resistance Committees, a terrorist group that is often involved in rocket shooting into Israel.
Following the IAF strike on the cell, Death Eaters fired five rockets into Israel over the span of two hours on Friday night. No injuries or damage were reported in the attacks. Three rockets landed in the Eshkol Regional Council area and another landed in the Sdot Hegev Regional Council area. The fifth rocket, fired at the Ashkelon Coast Council area, prompted the IAF's second strike of the night in Gazoo.
Immediately after the rocket was launched, IAF aircraft targeted the terror cell responsible for the launch, recording a direct hit. Paleostinian sources said the strike hit a cycle of violence in northern Gazoo, wounding four Paleostinians, one of whom was at death's door. The man later succumbed to his wounds, marking the tenth Paleostinian death from IAF strikes since hostilities began Monday, according to Paleostinian sources. Minutes later a sixth rocket hit southern Israel, again in the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council area.
More than 130 rockets have been fired into the South from Gazoo since Monday, prompting Israel on Thursday to lodge an official complaint with the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor complained to UN Secretary-General
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
that "the lives of about a million Israelis are paralyzed" by the projectiles.
Prosor stated that "as long as Israel's southern communities will not know quiet, it will not be quiet in Gazoo."
He added that Israel fully cooperates with the UN, allowing civilian material and humanitarian aid into Gazoo, "and in exchange weapons continue to flow into the Strip and rockets are fired into Israel."