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Terrorism

Unmoved by Israeli threats, IDF pinpricks, Gaza's Arabs rain rockets


By Stan Goodenough
December 12, 2007

"Palestinian" terrorists in Gaza responded derisively to the latest Israeli efforts to close them down by firing at least 20 rockets at targets in the Negev Wednesday morning.

Five people were reported lightly wounded in the barrage, which saw one rocket explode on the main street in the daily-pulverized town of Sderot.

The attack came a day after the IDF carried out its largest anti-terrorism operation in over two years in the southern Gaza Strip.

Eight Arab gunmen were killed, 10 were wounded and 60 were detained as Israeli tanks and armored bulldozers, covered by IAF helicopters swept into the area.

While the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group, which claimed credit for the rocket attacks, said they were in response to the IDF operation, The Jerusalem Post noted that they had fired their Kassams just hours before the first post-Annapolis talks between the Israeli government and the PLO/PA terrorist leadership were set to get underway in the Israeli capital.

Also noted was the encouragement PLO/PA chief Mahmoud Abbas gave the terrorists when he whined Tuesday evening that Israel's military actions in Gaza were sabotaging the Israeli-PA "peace" talks.

Meanwhile, Israel's High Court of Justice ruled Wednesday that the government of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert should explain what it was doing to protect the residents of Sderot, who have been terrorized by more than 2000 rockets fired from the Gaza Strip since the beginning of 2007.

The townspeople are demanding that the government construct security rooms in 800 Sderot homes and reimburse those who have already built rooms out of their own pockets.

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