How Long Will the PM Make the IDF Wait for a Gaza Operation!
September 6, 2007
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Israeli Prime Minister Olmert cannot hold off the rising flood of public opinion much longer before he is pressured to launch a measured type of IDF Operation into the Gaza Strip.
All Articles from Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Daily Alert
September 5, 2007
Article 1
Palestinian Rockets May Spur Israel Action on Gaza
Laurie Copans
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert convened his top ministers on Wednesday to discuss Israel’s response to the latest wave of Palestinian rocket fire from Gaza, as public pressure for retaliation grew after an attack that nearly hit a crowded nursery school.
(AP/Washington Post)
Article 2
Close to the Edge: Residents of Israeli Town Have Endured Over 2,000 Palestinian Rocket Attacks
Philip Jacobson
On a summer morning, the hubbub and bustle of the central market place in Sderot is interrupted by the wailing of sirens and the urgent voice of a woman repeating “Tzeva Adom” (Red Alert) over the public address system.
Another Kassam rocket has been launched by Palestinian militants in Gaza and is heading towards the town. Residents of Sderot are only too well aware that the warning gives
them a maximum of 15 seconds to take cover. Some shoppers respond instantly, scurrying for the freestanding steel-and-concrete shelters, known as “life shields,” dotted around public places. Others panic, running in one direction then another, spilling fruit and vegetables from their shopping bags.
Sderot is a town of 24,000, a little more than a mile away from the Palestinian city of Beit Hanoun. In the past five years, more than 2,000 rockets have struck homes, schools, offices, factories and a local synagogue. Eight people have been killed (three of them small children) and dozens more wounded. At Sderot’s center for the treatment of shock victims, Dr.
Adriana Katz talks about the invisible wounds inflicted on the hundreds of patients in her care by the relentless barrages.
She says the Palestinian rockets “have largely destroyed the normal fabric of life in the town.
Everyone exists in a state of permanent alert, which is physically and psychologically very destructive….We do our best to prevent people lapsing into full-blown post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).”
The most tragic victims of the rockets are Sderot’s children, one in three of whom suffers from PTSD, according to a survey published last year. Like their parents, they spend much of their lives “on alert,” dreading the next attack, unable to concentrate at school or enjoy
the normal pleasures of childhood at home.
(Times-UK)
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Israel Weighs Responding to Rocket Attacks by Cutting Electricity to Gaza
Amos Harel, Aluf Benn and Barak Ravid
In response to the ongoing Palestinian rocket fire at Israel, Defense Minister Ehud Barak ordered the Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday to examine the implications of temporarily cutting off Gaza from Israeli infrastructure, including electricity, fuel and the supply of basic commodities – as an alternative to a broad IDF incursion into northern Gaza. (Ha’aretz)
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Pulling the Plug on Gaza
Sima Kadmon
To what extent do we really understand the lives of these people who live near Gaza, who must face a constant tangible, existential threat? A threat so chilling it is almost surreal: Will my house be hit by a Kassam rocket today? Or where will my child be in the next Kassam attack? And the dilemma of each sane parent in Sderot: Am I being irresponsible by continuing to live in a place where my children are in danger’s way? Once, the solution of “pulling the plug” on Gaza sparked harsh criticism.
But that was before thousands of Kassam rockets. (Ynet News)
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Fatah: We Will Rocket Israel’s Ashkelon Power Station
The Buraq Army unit of the Al-Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, warned Tuesday that if Israel deprives Gaza of electricity, the Israeli power generating station at Ashkelon will be bombarded.
On Tuesd ay the Al-Muj
ahideen Brigades, another unit of the Al-Aqsa Brigades, claimed responsibility for launching a rocket at the Israeli town of Sderot.
(Maan News-PA)
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