No Need To Wait: Hudna Is Over

Sorry, but the ceasefire in place between Gaza's Hamas thugs and Israel isn't fragile. It's in tatters. It's toast. It's gone up in a hail of kassam and grad rockets and mortars. Askhelon and other nearby communities were hit. It went up in explosions of bombs planted along Israel's border with Gaza by the terrorists who wanted to breach Israel's border with the intent of carrying out infiltration operations to kill or capture Israelis for nothing less than extortion to demand Israel release Palestinian terrorists from Israeli jails.

The rest of the reporting about the situation is predictable.

The UN and human rights groups complain bitterly about Israel cutting off humanitarian aid to Gaza despite the repeated and rampant use of such aid to smuggle in weapons and the terrorists' skimming the aid for their own ends, rather than the suffering Palestinians.

We'll be hearing in short order that the Palestinians are being starved to death amid claims that food isn't to be found in Gaza.

Palestinians will claim that mysterious explosions killing terrorists are the result of Israeli actions, when it is just as plausible that they blew themselves up trying to build bombs (work accident).

Less reported is the fact that the reason that the border crossings have been closed is that the terrorists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad have been plotting to carry out attacks against the crossings, disrupting the flow and endangering those working at the crossing and those attempting to make the transit.

The photo above shows the terrorists attempting to fire off mortars at Israel. It's also instructive to keep in mind that Egypt has sealed its border with Gaza as well. They want nothing to do with the terrorists and smugglers there. Indeed, much of the smuggled goods entering Gaza comes from Egypt, where items like diesel can be sold at a 500% profit. The Rafah Crossing between Gaza and Egypt is under Egyptian control, and they too strictly limit the crossing because of the terror threat. Yet, the Egyptians don't come under much in the way of condemnation as Israel does. Israel is repeatedly attacked by the terrorists, and yet the world demands that Israel provide Gaza with energy, food, and economic assistance.