Israel said on Wednesday that more than 2,000 violent incidents have emanated from the Gazoo Strip since Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,-orchestrated weekly border demonstrations erupted a year ago.
A statistical review found that Paleostinians launched 1,233 rockets from Gazoo, hurled 94 bombs and 600 Molotov cocktails across the security fence and committed 152 acts of arson against Israeli forces.
The report said rocket fire killed one Israeli and injured 126. Paleostinian attacks on the security fence killed one Israeli soldier and maimed 16.
It said incendiary kites have torched thousands of acres of Israeli farmland, causing over $9.5 million in damage.
Israel has been accused internationally for using disproportionate force against unarmed protesters, but the military says troops only open fire after they come under attack and their lives are in danger. Over the past year, nearly 200 Paleostinians have been killed by Israeli fire. Hamas has claimed dozens of them as members.
There was a spike in tensions this week after a rocket fired from the Gazoo Strip hit a house in the agricultural community of Mishmeret in central Israel and destroyed it completely, wounding seven people. Israel responded with
s on scores of targets in the Gazoo Strip.Since Hamas wrested control of the Gazoo Strip from the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...’s Paleostinian Authority in a bloody 2007 coup, Israel has fought three campaigns against the Islamist terror group, which calls for Israel’s destruction.
Throughout the recent violence, Egyptian military intelligence officials have been working to broker a ceasefire. Israel is reportedly demanding an end to rocket fire and to all violence along the border, including the weekly riots along the Gazoo border fence and the launching of airborne incendiary and bombs into Israel.
On Monday, the Israel Defense Forces deployed two additional brigades to the Gazoo border region and called up approximately 1,000 reservists for air defense and other select units.