Lemme Know About That Ceasefire
Sorry about Qana, and all that, but this is why Israel can’t just surrender:
More than 160 Hizballah rockets hit Israel Sunday, July 30, in stepped up blitz on Day 19 of the war
July 30, 2006
Kiryat Shemona alone took 100 Katyushas, inuring 9 people, one seriously. Fires around the town enveloped the town in heavy black smoke, homes and shops have been wrecked, malls and factories damaged and some 80% of Kirya Shemona’s inhabitants have fled their Galilee town which they call hell. Haifa was briefly attacked after a three-day pause and is trying to recover from two weeks of constant rocket fire. Katyusha siren alerts sent people to shelters in Nahariya, Acre, Tiberias, Afula, Migdal Ha’emek and Nazareth. The total number of rockets fired in 19 days of Hizballah’s war has risen past 3,500.
The good news is that at this rate, Hezbollocks will have used all of its 13,000+ rockets by the end of September, perhaps in time for the high holy days.
Oh, and one strange thing about Qana:
Israeli Air Force Staff chief Brig-Gen Amir Eshel said Sunday he could not account for the time gap between the air strike over Qana village at 0100 Saturday night and the building’s collapse six or seven hours later
He said the air force had not been aware of civilians in the building and regretted the loss of 57 innocent lives, 37 of them children. Qana village was targeted as a busy Hizballa command and logistical center, said Brig. Eshel, from which 150 rockets had been fired into Israel on a daily basis. Civilians had been repeatedly advised to leave and many had. The defense minister has ordered a probe into the tragedy.
I’d like to hear more about that.