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Peace Process

Negev town braces for post-retreat terror


By Jerusalem Newswire Editorial Staff
June 09, 2005

Residents of the already beleaguered Negev town of Sderot expect to bear the full brunt of increasingly sophisticated and frequent long-range ?Palestinian? attacks resulting from Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's decision to retreat from the Gaza Strip.

?We are not expecting any easy times; the opposite, we are expecting bad times in the Fall,? Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal told Israel Radio Wednesday.

Moyal explained that Sharon's irresponsible policies would put local Israeli Jews in far greater danger than they are today, rather than bring increased security, as the prime minister claims.

?I always said the disengagement was stupid because if you leave the Gaza Strip full of terrorists with a lot of weapons, a lot of missiles, a lot of ammunition, they will shoot towards the borders for sure.?

Senior IDF officials, including former Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon, have repeatedly warned that the Arab perception of Israel being chased from Gaza, coupled with an expected influx of advanced weapons into the Strip, is likely to result in a serious wave of post-withdrawal terror.

The 46 towns and villages within rocket range of Gaza are expected to come under heaviest attack, Colonel Uzi Buchbinder, head of the Home Front Command's civil defense department, told his Knesset overseers in January.

Sderot has already endured hundreds of Kassam rocket strikes since the start of ?Oslo War? four-and-a-half years ago.

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