Tag Archives: Kassams

Operation Pillar of Cloud – updates for Day 3

In the Times of Israel’s live blog for day 3 of Operation Pillar of Cloud, we read that the IDF suspended its air attacks for 3 hours while the Egyptian Prime Minister visited Gaza: IDF to suspend strikes on the … Continue reading

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Day 2 of Operation Pillar of Cloud update: 3 killed in Kiryat Malachi

I was living in hope and praying that there would be no Israeli casualties in Operation Amud Annan but sadly this was not to be.  And events overtook me before I managed to publish this post. The death toll in … Continue reading

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Rocket fire update

After yesterday’s massive rocket barrage the south underwent a fairly quiet night. However that was violently broken this morning when yet another missile onslaught from Gaza hit Israel’s southern (and not so southern) communities, injuring four Israeli civilians. Please note … Continue reading

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More rocket fire in yet another escalation in the south

In a series of bombings, shootings and rocket fire, Hamas has seriously escalated the already volatile situation in the south of Israel over the weekend. It all started up again last Thursday when an Israeli work crew near Nirim in … Continue reading

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Hamas fires dozens of rockets and mortars at southern Israel

This time the pretext was Israel’s targeting of 2 terrorists in Gaza on Sunday, according to the IDF Spokesman’s blog: In a joint IDF- ISA operation, IAF targeted Tala’at Halil Muhammad Jarbi (b. 1989), a Global Jihad operative from Rafah, … Continue reading

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End Palestinian oppression by their brothers

Reader Michael Kupfer recommended this short video, and it sums up in a nutshell what we all know to be true – that the Palestinians are treated far worse by their own Arab brothers than by anything that Israel is … Continue reading

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