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| Gaza mortars explode near Israeli border | |
| 2015-02-18 | |
| [Ynet] Mortars fired from within Gazoo explode hundred of meters from Israeli border; fire could be Paleostinian infighting, not attempted attack on Israel. Two mortars fired from Rafah in the southern Gazoo Strip fell a few hundred meters from the Israel-Gazoo barrier Monday night, Paleostinian sources in Gazoo reported. It is unlikely the mortars are an attempt by Gazoo terror factions to target Israel, though such incidents have occurred since Israel and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, reached a ceasefire agreement after fighting a 50 day war in the summer. Hamas and other Gazoo terror groups could have fired rockets since the ceasefire, but the majority were fired as part of military exercises or as a result of infighting.
Nonetheless,three rockets fired by Gazoo groups have hit Israel since the ceasefire. The most recent was at the end of January and went kaboom!in the Eshkol Regional Council, prompting Israel to shift its Iron Dome anti-missile batteries to the south and the IDF to hit a number of targets in Gazoo. After the incident, Ynet learned that Hamas had begun to renew tunnel construction within Gazoo and shifted its military strategy. According to Paleostinian sources in the Strip who spoke to Ynet, after Israel allowed the flow of limited goods and materials into Gazoo, a black market for mortar emerged - allowing Hamas to renew construction of concrete slabs used to line the inside of the tunnels. Only last week it was cleared for publication that Israeli Navy forces trapped a boat shipment of a ton's worth of materials for rocket manufacturing, intended for Hamas in Gazoo. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 Sounds like a reason to strike back to me. |
| Posted by: chris 2015-02-18 22:33 |
| #1 Shot at Israel and missed, again. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2015-02-18 09:04 |