Hamas maakt misbruik van de dagelijks gevechtspauze die Israel sinds bijna een week in acht neemt, door juist dan raketten af te vuren op Israel. Toen Israel daarop een paar dagen geleden de lanceerders aanviel, stonden de correspondenten klaar om Israel ervan te betichten de zelf ingestelde gevechtspauze niet te respecteren. Ook heb ik horen zeggen dat er nog evenveel raketten op Israel vallen als toen de operatie begon, wat niet waar is. Het zijn er nu veel minder. Correspondenten zouden wat minder slordig en vooringenomen moeten zijn. Het lijkt erop dat velen van mening zijn dat:
* Israels strijd tegen Hamas niet te winnen en dus zinloos is, en daarom ook immoreel
* Israels operatie disproportioneel is, en onmiddelijk moet stoppen, los van wat Hamas doet
* De Hamas raketten weliswaar ook niet goed zijn, maar in het niet vallen bij wat Israel doet
* Israel totaal onverschillig is voor burgerdoden aan Palestijnse kant, en alles wat het daar tegenin brengt propaganda is
* Israel veel beter is in het 'verkopen' van haar kant, en wat zij zegt daarom met extra veel wantrouwen moet worden bejegend
* Het in wezen een strijd van David tegen Goliath is, en Hamas begrijpelijkerwijze verzet pleegt tegen het machtige Israel en zich niet wil laten kennen.
Kom je dergelijke vooringenomenheid of ronduit foutieve berichtgeving tegen in de media, reageer dan en maak de fout duidelijk.
RP
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Jan 12, 2009 9:12 | Updated Jan 12, 2009 13:50
Two houses hit as Hamas rocket barrage shatters 3-hour calm
By JPOST.COM STAFF
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Disregarding a ceasefire which Israel voluntarily accepted for three hours in order to allow humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, Hamas gunmen fired a Grad-type rocket at Ashkelon on Monday, damaging a house and sending seven people into shock.
Nobody sustained bodily injuries in the attack.
According to reports, the impact site was very close to a high school. Following the strike, the municipality, in conjunction with the Home Front Command, decided that the students would continue their classes underground in the bomb shelters.
Later, some fifteen minutes before the end of the humanitarian cease-fire, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket barrage on Beersheba, Ofakim, and Sderot. An empty house in Sderot sustained a direct hit.
On Monday morning, rocket-launching cells managed to break precedents, hitting for the first time the area of Kiryat Gat. The Sha'ar Hanegev region and the Eshkol region also sustained hits.
At least 15 rockets and mortar shells landed in Israel during the day. No one was wounded in any of the other attacks, and no other damage was reported.
For the past few days, the number of rocket and mortar strikes has notably decreased from what was seen at the outset of the operation on December 27. Whereas in the first few days, communities in and around the western Negev saw an average of 70 to 100 rocket strikes per day, over the past weekend less than 30 projectiles have succeeded in hitting Israel.
The IDF operation was launched after Hamas refused to extend a ceasefire agreement with Israel which expired on December 19. Israel has said that it would not cease its military activities until the Islamic group agrees to a permanent, long-term truce on the matter.
Nobody sustained bodily injuries in the attack.
According to reports, the impact site was very close to a high school. Following the strike, the municipality, in conjunction with the Home Front Command, decided that the students would continue their classes underground in the bomb shelters.
Later, some fifteen minutes before the end of the humanitarian cease-fire, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket barrage on Beersheba, Ofakim, and Sderot. An empty house in Sderot sustained a direct hit.
On Monday morning, rocket-launching cells managed to break precedents, hitting for the first time the area of Kiryat Gat. The Sha'ar Hanegev region and the Eshkol region also sustained hits.
At least 15 rockets and mortar shells landed in Israel during the day. No one was wounded in any of the other attacks, and no other damage was reported.
For the past few days, the number of rocket and mortar strikes has notably decreased from what was seen at the outset of the operation on December 27. Whereas in the first few days, communities in and around the western Negev saw an average of 70 to 100 rocket strikes per day, over the past weekend less than 30 projectiles have succeeded in hitting Israel.
The IDF operation was launched after Hamas refused to extend a ceasefire agreement with Israel which expired on December 19. Israel has said that it would not cease its military activities until the Islamic group agrees to a permanent, long-term truce on the matter.
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