Two brothers, one belonging to Islamic Jihad and one the military wing of Hamas, were killed in clashes with Israeli ground forces, and four more Hamas members were killed in Israeli air strikes, according to Hamas and medical officials in Gaza.Let's get the timing straight. Israelis come under fire from kassam rockets, and two Israelis are injured in rocket attacks that are designed to kill and maim Israelis and damage their property.
An Israeli missile hit the grounds of an agricultural school near the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun. A teacher, Hani Naim, 43, was killed, and three students were wounded, according to Saber Zaanin, a local resident who monitors violent activity from both Israel forces and Palestinian militants in the area. Hamas said all the wounded students were 16 years old.
An Israeli Army spokeswoman said that the Israeli forces “did not aim at the school, but at rocket launchers in the area.” The militants launching rockets “exploit the civilian environment,” she said, noting that mortar shells were fired at Israel from a school yard in northern Gaza a few months ago.
The Army spokeswoman confirmed that four air strikes and two ground strikes were carried out against armed Palestinian squads and a weapons-making workshop in various parts of Gaza on Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
Six Qassam rockets fired by Palestinian militants landed in Israel early Thursday, with one hitting a house in the Israeli border town of Sderot and wounding two residents, she said.
Israel responds with airstrikes against the very terrorists who fire those rockets, and happened to fire on locations where terrorists regularly fire them - a school.
Yet, the Times sees fit to reverse the order of events to make it appear as though the terrorists were somehow justified to fire the rockets at Israel?
Israel has an unconditional right to defend itself from the terrorists. Yet, the media repeatedly undermines that right by portraying the terrorists as sympathetic figures and always showing Palestinians crying over the deaths of their terrorist relatives.
Palestinian terrorists and their supporters in Gaza revel in the injuries and deaths of Israelis - including children (which includes two Israeli girls, aged 12 and 2). While the Israelis go to great lengths to minimize Palestinian civilian casualties, the Palestinian terrorists seek to maximize the carnage - on both sides of the border with Israel.
Since Tuesday, Hamas said it had fired 33 rockets and more than 30 mortar shells. All were done with the intent to murder Israelis. Since 2005, more than 4,000 rockets and mortars have been fired at Israel with the intent to murder Israelis. No other nation would ever permit such a situation to continue. Israel's restraint is its Achilles' Heel.
Hamas and the terrorists in Gaza used the Egyptian border breach to replenish its missile stocks.
Prime Minister Olmert has been incapable of taking decisive action to stop the attacks against Israel and Sderot in particular. That's giving opposition politicians all the ammo they need; Binyamin Netanyahu is claiming that he'd stop the rocket attacks if he's chosen as Prime Minister.
While Abbas claims that he would like to help broker a Gaza ceasefire, Israeli troops discovered a truck smuggling fertilizer that could be used to make explosives in the West Bank.
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