Inwoners Sderot kwaad over nieuwe Qassam regen na verlichting Gazablokkade

Toeval?

 

Shortly after Barak's pronouncements the relative respite in rocket attacks on southern Israel seemed over, with nine Qassam rockets and 13 mortar shells landing in and around communities in the western Negev.

 

 

Volgens de inwoners van Sderot niet. Zij geloven dat er niet voor niets zo weinig raketten en granaten waren afgevuurd de afgelopen paar dagen, en menen dat de blokkade wel degelijk succesvol was, maar met het vooruitzicht op nieuwe brandstof werden gelijk weer Qassams afgeschoten. We zullen het niet weten, want Israël mag de Gazastrook niet voor diesel en humanitaire goederen afsluiten van de internationale gemeenschap, wat ik overigens goed kan begrijpen. Maar wat ik mis is een alternatief.

 

Ja, men veroordeelt de raketbeschietingen wel, maar daar hebben de mensen in Sderot niet veel aan. Wat mag Israël wel? Of beter gezegd, kan de druk op Hamas niet worden opgevoerd om een einde aan deze beschietingen te maken? Kan Egypte niet worden gedwongen de grens fatsoenlijk te bewaken en de smokkel tegen te gaan? Waarom zei niemand wat toen Egypte tientallen Hamas leden doorliet na de Hajj, ook al waren er sterke vermoedens dat zij miljoenen aan cash voor Hamas binnensmokkelden? Kan de Arabische Liga niet worden 'overgehaald' om zich duidelijk tegen Hamas uit te spreken?  

 

 

Ratna

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Sderot residents: Barak folded, now Qassams are back

(VIDEO) Nine rockets and 13 mortar shells land in Israel on Monday as defense minister announces easing of closure on Gaza. 'Resumption of rockets is proof that Barak was brash,' says chairman of Committee for a Secure Sderot

Shmulik Hadad

Published: 01.22.08, 00:50 / Israel News

[for video link: www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3497145,00.html  ]

VIDEO - Sderot residents found little solace in Defense Minister Ehud Barak's call for Israel to exert "more and more pressure on the Gaza Strip" on Monday evening. Earlier in the day Barak consented to ease the near-complete closure imposed on the Hamas-controlled territory, authorizing the entry of humanitarian aid and a one-time shipment of diesel fuel to power Gaza's electricity station less than a day after it was shut down.

Shortly after Barak's pronouncements the relative respite in rocket attacks on southern Israel seemed over, with nine Qassam rockets and 13 mortar shells landing in and around communities in the western Negev.

Several weeks ago Eli Dahan's wife Ayelet just barely managed to run down to the family's bomb shelter with the couple's infant son seconds before a Qassam rocket crashed into his nursery.

"The siege on Gaza gave us some room to breathe," he said on Monday. "We thought to ourselves that maybe now Gaza's residents would pressure Hamas into stopping the rocket fire. But there you go, our government immediately retreated."

The family returned to their house this week, though the top floor has not yet been repaired. "We wanted to come back to restore some sense of routine for the children," said an outraged Dahan.

"We spent the evening with relatives and when we left to go home, the rocket alert sirens blared," he recalled, "we started running and ducked for cover behind a garbage container. I thought to myself how we, the parents, must look to our children, running like this."

Alon Davidi, chairman of the Committee for a Secure Sderot, also expressed his disappointment with the defense minister's decision: "The rocket fire tonight is proof that Barak was too brash, he is a defense minister that lacks an understanding of this war on terror. Nothing could be more morally sound than cutting Gaza's power."