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Hitting Gaza for the second time in hours, IAF targets rocket launchers, weapon manufacturing sites and other 'terror centers.'By Gili Cohen and Shirly Seidler | Jun. 28, 2014
The Israel Air Force struck targets in the Gaza Strip early on Sunday after five rockets hit southern Israel the previous evening.
The IDF said that it had targeted weapons manufacturing sites, underground rocket launchers and "centers of terrorist activity" located in different areas of the Strip.
In a similar strike that took place a few hours earlier, on Saturday night, an Israeli aircraft targeted three underground rocket launchers in the Strip's center. The operation came in retaliation for rockets fired from Gaza earlier in the evening, the IDF said, adding that it holds Hamas responsible .
One of the rockets fired from Gaza caused a fire in a paint factory in the city of Sderot. Emergency services managed to gain control of the fire by 10 P.M. A second rocket exploded in open terrain in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council, while two more hit the Sdot Negev Regional council.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.601798
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)The rocket attacks have to stop, and the only other response to it will be another Operation Cast Lead.
I would rather have a deescalation and international presence to counter any more rocket attacks and also to prevent any more Israeli incursions / sniping into the GS.
Shaktimaan
(5,397 posts)To where exactly? To Sderot, to camp out in the hopes that Gaza would refrain from firing rockets for fear of hitting a white helmet?
Or into Gaza, where they would... Do what exactly? Stop the rockets and arrest the terrorists? Just as Israel does, but without any collateral damage, or dead civilians I suppose. (Because the UN soldiers are famous for risking their lives to defend someone else's country... Famously ineffective and for their lack of commitment to any task they're given.)
Can you point to an example where sending in UN soldiers helped anything?
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)For one put the Israeli war machine back in its box, and two de-militarize Gaza.
Shaktimaan
(5,397 posts)This has been tried before you know. Recently in Lebanon for instance. To say it was unsuccessful would be a gross understatement.
Why/how would UN troops who have no reason to endanger their lives for someone else's country, who have no intelligence network in place at all, and who don't even speak the language, do a better job of demilitarizing Gaza with less casualties than Israel?
Why would Israel want to entrust their security to an organization that's failed to do exactly that every time they're deployed to Israel's borders during a conflict?
When has this idea ever once worked out for the better?
King_David
(14,851 posts)And people wonder why it concerns Israel ?