Rockets being fired from the Gaza strip (Haaretz)
Carl in JerusalemIsrael writes [at 4:26 AM ... Jerusalem Time? ]:
I was too optimistic when I guaranteed that the Gaza cease fire that was declared by Hamas on Monday would not last until the end of the month. It didn't even last until the end of the evening. I'm writing this several hours before you'll see it, but at this writing there have already been three Grad rockets that were shot at Ashkelon and two more that fell in Gaza.
[JPost:] "The attacks once again placed reports of an unofficial ceasefire in question and have shattered a period of around 8 hours when no projectiles were fired at southern Israel."
BtB notes that at the New York Times there has been no mention whatsoever of the rocket attacks. Of last Thursday's attacks, Isabel Kershner and David Kirkpatrick reported only this before "moving on" to details of Israel's "retaliation" and various reactions:
JERUSALEM — Armed attackers, described by the authorities as Gazans who had crossed into Israel from Egypt, carried out multiple deadly attacks near the popular Red Sea resort of Eilat on Thursday, prompting a fierce Israeli bombing raid on Gaza and threatening to escalate tensions there.
Eight Israelis were killed and more than 30 were wounded in the attacks near Eilat, the most serious on Israel from Egyptian territory in decades. The attacks highlighted how the fallout from the Egyptian revolution — lawlessness in the northern Sinai Peninsula and a softer line in Cairo toward Iran and the militant group Hamas — had frayed ties with Israel.
The Israeli military said it had killed at least four of the attackers in the desert near the Egyptian border. Hours later, it retaliated with several airstrikes on Gaza. In the first such strike, six Palestinians, several of them members of a militant group, were killed, according to the group’s spokesman and medical officials in Gaza.
The attacks near Eilat were the deadliest in Israel since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took office two and a half years ago, and they come at a time of great uncertainty as the Palestinians plan to seek recognition of statehood at the United Nations in the fall.
In typical NYT style (otherwise known as anti-Israel bias), the headline reads "Attacks Near Israeli Resort Heighten Tensions With Egypt and Gaza," while the accompanying photo shows ""Palestinians at a Gaza hospital after an Israeli airstrike in retaliation for attacks near Eilat, Israel."
Photo: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa, al Reuters.
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