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Monday, August 22, 2011

Barrage of rockets from Gaza strike Israel; sites in Gaza targeted

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/08/21/israel.violence/

The rockets and mortars fired from Gaza on Saturday forced more than 500,000 people into bomb shelters, Israeli defense officials said.
Thursday's string of attacks was the deadliest against the Israeli population in two years.
The attacks occurred about 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Israeli city of Eilat, close to the Israeli-Egyptian border. Israeli soldiers exchanged gunfire with the assailants and killed seven militants, the military said.
Early Saturday, the Hamas military wing Izzedine al Qassam Brigades, announced it was ending a de facto two-year truce with Israel.

The infiltrators came from Egypt, according to repoirts, explaining a lot of what Israel had to be concerned about when Mubarak fell. While Israel's old enemies Egypt and Syria are weakened militarily by events, the danger to Israel actually increases. No longer is the threat from an armored invasion, but from internal protests coupled with chaos on their borders.

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