Twee mortiergranaten landen bij Gaza hek

Bijna dagelijks wordt het staakt-het-vuren tussen Israël en Hamas geschonden, ondanks beloftes van Hamas er wat aan te doen. Wellicht heeft Fatah, waaraan de Al Aqsa Martelaren Brigades - verantwoordelijk voor de meeste schendingen - geliëerd zijn, er belang bij het staakt-het-vuren te doen mislukken. Hamas lijkt met de dag sterker te worden nu het ongehinderd zijn militaire macht kan versterken en nieuwe strijders recruteren. Een Israëlische militaire operatie tegen Hamas is wellicht meer in het belang van Fatah.

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2 mortar shells land in Nahal Oz area

Sunday sees another truce violation as two mortars fired from Gaza hit Palestinian side of border fence; no injuries or damage reported

Shmulik Hadad YNET
Published: 07.13.08, 16:44
www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3567637,00.html

Two mortar shells fired from the Gaza Strip on Sunday afternoon landed near the border fence, on its Palestinian side, in the Kibbutz Nahal Oz area. There were no reports of injuries or damage.

Twenty-four hours earlier, the ceasefire reached between the Israel and the Palestinian factions was violated once again, as a Qassam rocket landed in an open area near a community in the Shaar Hanegev Regional Council.

The Color Red alert system was activated at around 1:05 pm in Sderot and the Gaza vicinity communities. Several seconds later, an explosion was heard near one of the communities.

On Thursday, two Qassam rockets landed in the western Negev. There were no reports of injuries or damage. The al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Fatah's military wing, claimed responsibility, saying the rockets were fired in response to the assassination of Talal Abed just outside the northern West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday.

Several hours later, Hamas announced it had arrested two Fatah members who had launched the rockets towards Israel. Hamas sources reported that "the rocket fire threatens the truce. This is an attempt to thwart the truce and not a response to Israel's actions."

Meanwhile, western Negev residents have had enough of the truce being violated by the Palestinian side so many times. Sderot residents recently put up a sign at the entrance to the city saying, "(Prime Minister Ehud) Olmert's ceasefire: They can fire, we can't."