Israeli warplanes attacked the Gaza Strip today, the first time they have done so in nearly six months, since the Egyptian government brokered a truce to end the last Israeli attack on the strip.
Hamas confirmed the Israeli attack, but insisted that there were no casualties, as the missiles hit an “open area” near Beit Lahiya. Israel says the attacks were retaliation for mortar firing from the area.
Which is odd, because while there appear to have been a couple of mortars fired in Gaza today, the indications are that they hit an area along the Gaza-Israel border, but inside the Gaza Strip, though there was an unconfirmed report of a third mortar shell being found in a field in southern Israel.
Israel’s November attack killed 170 Gazans, and ended with a truce that was supposed to relax the blockade of humanitarian goods from the strip, as well as allowing Gaza fishermen access to five miles out in their own territorial waters. Israel reneged on that promise, however, and has since forced Gaza fishermen back into the narrow pre-war limits.
Funny, you would think the title should be rockets and mortars fired into Israel for the first time….. But that is of less consequence to this "reporter". Fact is that last weeks a rocket landed in a school yard of a nursery and today to rockets were fired into Sderoat…
Spare me the bullsh*t. And while you're at it, why don't you give us a (pre-1948) history of Sderot?
The third paragraph makes it sound like Israel should not have retaliated because the mortars fired from Gaza hit an open area, and no damage was done.
But the second paragraph says that the Israeli missiles hit an open area too and no damage was done either.
So according to the writer of the article:
Gaza fires towards Israel but landing in open area = OK
Israel firing towards Gaza and landing in an open area = Not OK
Is it that time of the year already?
Take that Erdogan. That is what a promise from Netanyahu is worth. They tightened the blockade too, exactly the opposite of promised, to hem in the fishing.