Palestinians Fire Missiles Into Israel

WaPo reported Palestinian gunmen fired a barrage of homemade missiles from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel before dawn Saturday, wounding five Israeli civilians, a military official said. Attack helicopters responded hours later by striking a weapons factory and warehouse in Gaza, the first Israeli military operation inside the strip since Israel completed its withdrawal from the area this month.

Good for the Israelis. Now what they need to do is announce that this time a rocket attack was answered by two targets being destroyed. The next attack witll result in 4 targets in Gaza being destroyed, then 8, then 16, then 32, etc. etc.

Maybe they will understand it does not make sense to attack Israel.

The operation followed a horrific blast Friday in the Jabalya refugee camp north of Gaza City. A truck carrying a group of armed men and makeshift weapons exploded during a Hamas rally, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 80, according to hospital officials and witnesses.

It looks like Hamas is setting up more bomb and rocket factories, but that Israel has already killed those that knew how to make them without blowing themselves up.

Hamas, formally known as the Islamic Resistance Movement, accused Israel of firing missiles at the vehicle from an unmanned aircraft, which Israeli military officials denied. Witnesses said the explosion did not leave the telltale crater of a missile strike, a method Israel has used frequently against Hamas leaders and gunmen in the past.

Isarel can respond with unmanned aircraft, or planes, or helicopters, or rockets. Whatever is required for the target.

Palestinian security officials said they believed homemade explosives in the truck may have ignited, sending shrapnel slicing through a dense crowd of several thousand people.

Maybe the peaceful citizens in Gaza should consider whether they want this sort of thing going on in their cities, or whether they would rather show they can live in peace with their neighbor, and thus not risk either being blownup by Hamas incompetents, or by Israeli response to an attack by Hamas