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| IAF Strikes Back At Gaza Rocket Launching Sites |
| 2012-10-29 |
| [Jerusalem Post] Terrorist targets hit after projectiles land in open areas in Eshkol region; further six rockets launched following IAF strike. The Israeli Air Force hit back at targets in the Gazoo Strip overnight on Sunday, the IDF Spokesperson Office said. A further six rockets fell overnight on the Eshkol Regional Council area following the IAF strike, Army Radio reported. IDF spokesmen announced that the IAF struck terrorist targets in Gazoo, including a rocket launching site in the northern Gazoo Strip and a center of terrorist activity in southern Gazoo. Paleostinian sources announced damage done to two rocket launching squads in Khan Younis and Beit Hanoun, with no injuries reported. The IDF said that the ...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km.... at Beersheba on Sunday morning, threatening to end a brief period of calm. The Popular Resistance Committees, one of several smaller terrorist factions in the Gazoo Strip, said it had launched one of the projectiles. The rockets triggered air raid sirens on the outskirts of the city, and hit in open areas, the Israel Police said. The Beersheba Municipality canceled school on Sunday as a result of the threat of ongoing violence. Beersheba Mayor Rubik Danilovich noted that in recent years, Paleostinian rockets had hit four schools and kindergartens in the Negev city, adding that casualties were avoided because they were closed ahead of time. "If there are missiles, there will be no school," said Danilovich, who took the decision to shut the schools despite instructions by the IDF Home Front Command to keep them open. School is to resume as usual on Monday, as no rockets fell in the area overnight. Earlier on Sunday, two short-range Kassam rockets went kaboom!in the Eshkol region, also striking open areas and triggering rocket alert sirens. Shortly after that attack, the Israel Air Force struck a rocket-launching cell in central Gazoo. "We identified an accurate strike, and subsequent kabooms [of rockets in the cell's possession]" the IDF Spokesman's Office said. Paleostinian sources said the strike killed one Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, man and maimed another. The army said the cell was in the final stages of preparing to fire into southern Israel. The violence continued later in the day when Paleostinians fired mortar shells at an IDF force on a routine patrol of the Gazoo border. No injuries were reported. In the afternoon, three Paleostinian rockets went kaboom!in the Hof Ashkelon region, triggering sirens. Soon afterward, four rockets struck in the Eshkol region. The violence follows a three-day lull since last week, when Gazoobased bully boyz fired more than 80 rockets at Israeli towns and cities. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 "If there are missiles, there will be no school," said Danilovich What, like a SNOW DAY! The Israeli Air Force hit back...with no injuries reported. Somebody needs to upgrade their munitions, and spend more time training on the pickle. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2012-10-29 10:28 |
| #1 17 Rockets fired into Israel on 10-29 as of early pm local time |
| Posted by: lord garth 2012-10-29 08:33 |