[Ynet] Air force hits rocket launcher in northern Gazoo Strip; projectile lands in open area in southern Israel; Salafist group claims responsibility.The Israeli Air Force struck a target in the northern Gazoo Strip from which a rocket was launched earlier Tuesday night.
A Salafist group sympathetic to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group, the "Omar Brigades," grabbed credit.
Yisrael Beytenu Chairman MK Avigdor Lieberman said after the incident that "He who is willing to absorb 'trickles' will ultimately get torrential rain.
"We cannot accept this situation. No government has a right to exist if it is willing to accept a situation in which less than a year after a military operation that cost us dearly in soldiers' lives and disruption of national life for two months, a situation is returning where residents of the south must again run to shelters. This situation is intolerable, unacceptable, and we must put an end to it."
"The war between them inside the Strip does not interest us... It should be made absolutely clear to the other side that we are not willing to take either a flotilla or fire from Gazoo," said Yair Farjun, chairman of Hof Ashkelon Regional Council, referring to the announcement by MK Bassel Ghattas that he would join a flotilla that he says is meant to provide humanitarian aid to Gazoo.
A number of rockets were fired at Israel from Gazoo in the last few weeks. On June 11, a siren sounded in the Ashkelon area, also around 10 PM. The IDF later announced that the siren was prompted by a rocket launch from Gazoo that landed inside the Strip.
Around 9:30 PM on June 6, a rocket went
kaboom!in an open area in Ashkelon, after which the AIF struck terror infrastructure in the northern Gazoo Strip.
Gazoo has recently seen attempts by Salafists
...Salafists are ostentatiously devout Moslems who figure the ostentation of their piety gives them the right to tell others how to do it and to kill those who don't listen to them...
to challenge Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, rule and fire rockets despite the existing ceasefire. A senior Salafist leader in Gazoo said his people could not tolerate the reality of Hamas persecuting, arresting, and killing them.