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2021-05-17 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Wide-scale Hamas rocket barrage scores direct hits in Ashkelon, Ashdod, almost 2700 3,000 shot off to date — highest rate ever
[JPost] One rocket landed in a synagogue in Ashkelon, while 2 more hit 5 cars and a house; Direct hits were also reported in Ashdod and Beersheba; No injuries have been reported.

Hamas rocket barrages on southern Israel continued Sunday with almost 300 projectiles launched at Israel from the day before, 120 on Saturday night alone.
No one was injured but rockets slammed into buildings in Ashkelon and Ashdod. In Ashkelon, a rocket scored a direct hit on a synagogue, causing extensive damage.

Magen David Adom treated 66 people injured by rocket fire while seeking shelter, and in Jewish-Arab riots between Saturday and early Sunday morning and 282 people since Monday.

Related: The Times of Israel reports that since the start of fighting last Monday evening, Gazans had shot off almost 2500 rockets as of Sunday morning.
Update at 2:45 a.m ET:
Highest pace of rocket fire ever — IDF

[IsraelTimes] Israel has faced the highest ever rate of rocket attacks on its territory during its latest confrontation with the Paleostinian Islamist group Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, that controls Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, the army says.

Since Monday, gangs in Gaza have fired about 3,000 rockets toward Israel, surpassing the pace during an escalation of violence in 2019 and during the 2006 war with Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
’s Hezbollah, says Major General Ori Gordin.

Gordin, commander of Israel’s home front, presents a graphic to news hounds with data of rockets fired toward Israel in past years and now.

During an escalation of violence in November 2019 between the army and the Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
group, 570 rockets were fired from Gaza towards Israel over three days.

And in the 2006 war with the Iran-backed Hezbollah, a total of 4,500 rockets were fired at Israel over 19 days, according to the data Gordin shared with news hounds.

Asked if the pace since Monday was the highest ever rate of rocket attacks on Israeli territory, Gordin said: "Not only do I agree, this is what I present."


Posted by Frank G 2021-05-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ]  Top
 File under: Hamas 

#1 A Hamas rocket costs 500$ (long range x5). An Iron Dome interceptor costs 50,000$. In case you were wondering about Hamas strategy.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-05-17 02:50||   2021-05-17 02:50|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ Then Gaza has only as long to live as it's economically viable for the IDF to play 'nice'? After a while it's scorched earth on 360 or so sq km.
Posted by Dron66046 2021-05-17 07:12||   2021-05-17 07:12|| Front Page Top

#3 ^My theory is that they're trying to make Israel reconquer them - after all, compared to what they've now (in quiet times), it was their golden age.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-05-17 07:16||   2021-05-17 07:16|| Front Page Top

#4 The pic shows a bunch of white cars untouched while the only yellow car is toast. Hamas is guilty of anti-asian racism (TM) !
Posted by Mercutio 2021-05-17 08:09||   2021-05-17 08:09|| Front Page Top

#5 and you can bet the Hamas rocket targeting system consists purely of "point it at the Jews"

that seems to be lost in all the media hand-wringing over Israeli counter-strikes
Posted by Retard Strength 2021-05-17 08:10||   2021-05-17 08:10|| Front Page Top

#6 What targeting system? ☺
Posted by Dron66046 2021-05-17 08:12||   2021-05-17 08:12|| Front Page Top

#7 How much does Hamas’s rocket arsenal cost?
Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-17 09:47||   2021-05-17 09:47|| Front Page Top

#8 So... the Biden administration is paying to intercept Pal missiles and funding those missiles at the same time?
Wtf?
Posted by Unolush Dribble4404 2021-05-17 12:20||   2021-05-17 12:20|| Front Page Top

#9  How much does Hamas’s rocket arsenal cost?

It’s a depreciating asset even when not shooting off. One must wonder how many of the 14,000 rockets in inventory Skidmark’s article mentioned were destroyed in the 15+ kilometers of destroyed tunnels — a happy thought.
Posted by trailing wife 2021-05-17 12:49||   2021-05-17 12:49|| Front Page Top

#10 Washington Post analysis ripped for blaming Iron Dome system for extending Palestinian conflict: 'Unreal'
Posted by Skidmark 2021-05-17 14:03||   2021-05-17 14:03|| Front Page Top

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