Hamas Breaks Its Ceasefire 14 Times in 24 Hours

Israel says the truce is one-sided and IDF continues to stop missile launches.
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu, INN

Hamas has repeated its past performance of declaring a ceasefire and immediately breaking it, firing more than a dozen more rockets and mortar shells on southern Israel Sunday night and Monday morning.

One rocket in the pre-dawn hours hit a building in the Eshkol region, adjacent to Gaza, causing damage but no injuries.

The Israeli Security Cabinet Monday morning stated that the ceasefire is one-sided and that the IDF will continue to attack to stop missile launches. It added that Israel will respond to any more rocket and mortar shell attacks with “pinpoint” retaliation.

The government decision precludes a full-scale ground operation into Gaza, which the opposition Kadima party has demanded.

Hamas declared the truce would go into effect Sunday night after the worst round of terrorism against Israel since the counterterrorist Operation Cast Lead campaign in the winter of 2008-2009.

“Hamas is trying to draw Israel into fighting in [Gaza] to weaken its [Israel’s] power in the international arena in preparation for the Palestinian statehood decree in September,” a senior diplomat told Army Radio. “This way Hamas will be seen as leading the way for the establishment of a Palestinian state.”

He said that Hamas wants an escalation despite its ceasefire announcement. The ensuing missile attacks on Israel Sunday night and Monday morning may have been an attempt to draw into an escalation.

If so, it did not work.

A large-scale military operation in Gaza, one month before the United Nations discusses the Arab League petition to recognize the Palestinian Authority as in independent country, could play into PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’s hands as a propaganda tool against Israel.

August 22, 2011 | 10 Comments »

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  1. HCQ writes:
    Israel should always think to prepare as if she has no allies in the world.

    What a paranoid comment. Why would Israel be so stupid?

    Yamit writes:
    Israel has no allies in the world…

    Who else but a Hamas mole would write such bullcrap? It is high time that Israelis wake up to such enemies within busy trying to sabotage it while pretending to be pious and conservative Jews. The US has not only pledged its unconditional support for the security of Israel but has put its money where its mouth is for decades. Thank Hashem the leaders of Israel and most of its citizens are grateful for its only ally.

    Bill Levinson writes:
    This doesn’t speak very highly of Israel. If somebody breaks his word to you ONCE, you put him down so hard that he will never get up again.

    This is Israel’s most recent opportunity to re-take and annex Gaza, and deport all the militants to either Egypt, Jordan or Lebanon. Obama and the world will piss and moan but eventually get used to it. The Bamster will be gone after 2012, if the liberal American Jews quit propping up his regime with their money. Most of the rest of the American electorate seems to have woken up to this colossal mistake to elect an unqualified dufus simply because he is half black. All the Republican candidates except the crackpot Ron Paul are strong supporters of Israel.

  2. Monday 10-05 p.m. Israel. more rockets have laded in Israel.I am sure you will understand if I don’t indicate the location.

  3. There are 3 facts to take into account when dealing with the Arabs of Eretz Israel:
    1) The nations of the world hate the Jewish people and will blame Israel for anything, real or imagined. 2) Most Gaza “Palestinians” live in Gaza City or just outside it, a very compact area. 3) A neutron bomb of a small fraction of a kiloton would alleviate Israel’s southern border problem considerably with little collateral damage or fallout. Effectively dealing with the terrorists merely requires a government that recognizes that Jewish life has value.

  4. The report includes a surprising statement:

    The government decision precludes a full-scale ground operation into Gaza, which the opposition Kadima party has demanded.

    Has Livni’s political polarity just reversed and she wants Kadima to become the new, more aggressive Likud?

    Has anyone read any further reports on Kadima’s position in this regard alluded to in this report and if so, please provide links?

  5. yamit82 Said:

    @ HCQ:
    HCQ Said:
    Israel should always think to prepare as if she has no allies in the world.
    Israel has no allies in the world but before it dawns on the dwarfs we have for leaders the truth of the matter we will have lost many israelis for nothing. Self delusion is a terminal illness.

    A pathological need for acceptance and approval. What has conditioned your people so?

  6. @ HCQ:
    HCQ Said:

    Israel should always think to prepare as if she has no allies in the world.

    Israel has no allies in the world but before it dawns on the dwarfs we have for leaders the truth of the matter we will have lost many israelis for nothing. Self delusion is a terminal illness.