19:33: Rocket alerts are ringing in the Eshkol Regional a council now.
18:41: Currently in effect is an unofficial ceasefire till 8 PM IST. Palestinian news outlets are stating that the goal of this latest truce is to allow mediators to try to reach an agreement. Some of Hamas’ demands are the building of a seaport & airport, expanded fishing rights, prisoner releases, and the easing of supplies entering Gaza from Israel.
18:34: There are numerous reports that Hamas is not involved in the latest string of rocket attacks. The groups involved are a number of minor terror cells operating in Gaza. This is a possible theory as to why Israel’s response has been quite limited.
17:17: Around 50 rockets were fired from Gaza since Hamas broke the ceasefire Friday morning. The IDF has retaliated by attacking 40 terror targets i Gaza.
17:15: a rocket landed in an open area in the Eshkol Region before. No injuries reported.
16:48: Red alerts ringing in Eshkol Regional Council.
16:10: Violent clashes between soldiers and Arabs at Kever Rochel. Two soldiers have been lightly injured.
16:10: A rocket landed in an open area in Ashkelon.
16:05: A rocket has hit a house in Sderot. There are no reports of injuries.
15:58: Red alerts are now sounding in Ashkelon.
15:42: A rocket slammed into a Sderot home. No injuries B’chasdei Hashem.
15:31: Sirens sounding in the Shar HaNegev district.
15:22: Four rockets landed in the Shar HaNegev and Ashkelon Coast regions. B’chasdei Hashem without fatalities or injuries.
15:11: Sirens sound in the Shar HaNegev district.
14:23: Leftists say the renewed rocket fire will not deter them and they will be holding their anti-war protest in Rabin Square tomorrow.
14:11: A total of four persons were injured today, three light and one moderately.
13:26: Beersheva City Hall has given the order to open public bomb shelters.
13:19: Dr. Nachmi Paz, the academic director of Sapir College is the civilian injured moderately in a rocket attack earlier.
13:17: No injuries are being reported in rocket attacks to Nir Yitzchak, Chulit, and Sufah.
13:04: Over 40 rockets have been fired since this morning.
• Soroka Hospital reports the person in moderate-to-serious condition is now listed in moderate condition.
• The persons injured were not touching rocket fragments are reported earlier. They got out of a vehicle when the siren sounded and were on the ground when they were hit. They complied with instructions.
• Two other people sustained very light injuries. They were not transported to a hospital.
12:54: Click here for limud Mishnayos in memory of the fallen in Protective Edge.
12:39: Hamas calling on PA (Palestinian Authority) residents to begin widespread rioting throughout Yehuda and Shomron following Friday prayer services.
12:34: The IDF Spokesman confirms that the soldier wounded earlier in the S’dot Negev Council is in light condition. The civilian was the more seriously wounded of the two, reported in moderate-to-serious condition.
12:33: A home in a S’dot Negev Council community sustained a direct hit. Damage is reported. One person sustained light injuries due to a fall while running for cover.
12:25: One rocket landed 20 meters from a gas station. Unfortunately, words like “mazel” are being used as many remain blind to the Yad Hashem.
12:21: The two wounded victims were transported to Soroka and Barzilai Hospitals.
12:08: Over 30 rockets have been fired since 8:00am.
12:06: It is now permitted to publish flights at Ben-Gurion Airport were halted this morning between 07:30-08:00 for fear of rocket fire as the 72-hour ceasefire was coming to an end. Over ten flights were delayed.
12:04: It appears the wounded in the Shar HaNegev are not the result of a direct rocket attack but rather from touching rocket remnants that seem to have exploded.
12:02: The message from Gaza: Israel will be responsible for the consequences of not complying with our demands.
• The air force is targeting terrorists in Gaza.
12:00: There are two persons wounded in the Shar HaNegev region, one listed moderate-to-serious condition and one light. One of the wounded is an IDF soldier.
11:56: One person has been seriously wounded in mortar fire to the Eshkol Regional Council district.
11:46: Sirens sounding in the S’dot Negev Council.
11:40: A rocket detonated in an open area in the Eshkol Council region.
11:37: Government officials stress negotiations will not take place under fire.
11:33: Sirens sounding in the Eshkol Regional Council.
10:59: PM Spokesman Mark Regev: Hamas cannot fire rockets and then demand open borders.
10:57: Two rockets explode in open area in the Shar HaNegev council, B’chasdei Hashem without fatalities or injuries.
10:54: Sirens sounding in Kfar Aza and Kibbutz Saad.
10:53: The air force is now responding to rocket fire, targeting terrorists in Gaza along with artillery fire.
10:32: It is reported PM Netanyahu and DM Ya’alon have ordered a significant response to the unprovoked rocket fire. An acrid black pillar of smoke is seen bellowing from Gaza.
10:30: One rocket fell in an Eshkol council community, B’chasdei Hashem without fatalities or injuries.
10:29: A rocket explodes in an open area in the Shar HaNegev Regional Council. B’chasdei Hashem without fatalities or injuries.
10:29: Three additional rounds of rocket fire to the Gaza border communities.
• IDF artillery fire now responding according to reports from Gaza.
10:17: Another round to Nachal Ohz and Alumim.
10:16: Sirens sounding in Nachal Ohz and Alumim.
10:13: The head of the Bnei Shimon Regional Council in S. Israel: I have the feeling we only respond when Tel Aviv is targeted.
10:10: Israeli negotiators in Cairo to advance ceasefire talks have left.
• There are growing calls from ministers, MKs, and public officials for the IDF to crush Hamas and bring an end to the rocket fire once and for all.
• The IDF has yet to respond.
09:33: Residents of Sderot and the Gaza border communities are back in emergency mode. They are instructed to remain very close to safe rooms and bomb shelters.
09:33: At present, there are no reports of injuries from the last volley of rocket fire.
• The IDF has yet to respond to any of the rocket attacks.
09:31: Since the end of the ceasefire at 08:00, 17 rockets have been fired from Gaza, of which 13 exploded in open fields, two intercepted by the Iron Dome, and two landed in Gaza.
• Sirens sounding once again in the Eshkol Region as well as the Ashkelon region.
09:29: Israel Police remain on high alert with an emphasis on the Old City of Yerushalayim and Har Habayis.
09:26: In light of renewed rocket fire from Gaza, the IDF Homefront Command has modified its guidelines.
• Gatherings of over 500 people within the 40km mark of the Gaza border are prohibited. This applies to open or closed venues.
• In the 40-80km areas, gatherings of over 1,000 are prohibited, referring to open areas.
• All public shelters up the 80km mark are to remain open.
09:18: While artillery units, tanks and the air force are standing by, the IDF has not yet responded to several rounds of renewed rocket fire.
• Rishon L’Tzion City Hall has ordered the reopening of public bomb shelters
• 1,000s of Gaza residents are fleeing their homes, expecting an IDF retaliation to rocket fire
• Elite forces remain on alert around Gaza border communities in the event chas v’sholom a tunnel was missed that will be used by terrorist to attempt an attack
08:29: Several additional attacks to the Eshkol Regional Council.
• Israel has yet to respond
• B’chasdei Hashem there are no fatalities or injuries in any of the attacks
08:12: Sirens in Yad Mordechai and Netiv HaAsarah.
08:10: A rocket landed in an open area in the Ashkelon area, B”H without fatalities or injuries.
• About 60% of the residents of the Gaza border communities have returned home prior to this morning.
08:09: Sirens sounding in the Eshkol Regional Council once again.
Making good on its threat, Hamas a short time ago fired rockets to the Ashkelon and Ashdod districts. One rocket was intercepted by the Iron Dome.
Additional sirens are sounding now in Zikim and Karmiya.
Two mortar shells were fired into southern Israel at 04:30 as reported.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon warned that if Hamas does resume rocket fire, the response will be painful.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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19 Responses
“The IDF has yet to respond to any of the rocket attacks.” Of course not, Israel will only respond when the Tel Avivians, those who consider themselves “superior” over the nebbechs in the south, will get some rockets, like the head of Bnei Shimon Regional Council said.
At 10:38 after 18 rockets, after Hamas finished shemone esra, Israel started חזרת הש”ץ.
Two or three targeted killings will quiet them down asunder!
Wipe em out
Send the lefties to gaza maybe they have some good mental hospitals there
The leftists should demonstrate within the 40km mark, not in the safety of Rabin Square.
As long as Hamas can’t do any serious damage, it would be best for the Israelis to focus on enforcing the blockade, and very limited operations to interefere with the missile launching, but to avoid anything causing either substantial civilian casulties or loss of Israeli life. Hamas may be vicious but they are incompetent and not especially bright. By destroying tunnels, preventing infilitration and block any sort of industrial operations, the Israelis can minimize the danger to themselves while crippling Hamas. Killing enemy civilians, even when justifiable, just makes them angry (note how terrorist attacks in Israel don’t make Israeli stop hating Arabs but just makes them more mad at Arabs than before).
#7- Perhaps you can sit in Sderot, absorb missile strikes and then post this again explaining how Israel should take into account making Arabs angry before Israel reacts.
It is difficult to blame foreigners demonstrating against Israel and the Jews when in the midst of a war for survival, the Israeli left wing is demonstrating in the middle of Tel Aviv against their own kith and kin.
akuperma – I suggest you move to one of the Gaza periphery communities and then define what you mean by serious damage. Living under the constant threat of rocket attacks is my definition of being where there is serious damage. You are wrong when you say that Ham Ass are not especially bright. Building the tunnel network they did, without it being discovered in the making, was an intelligent engineering feat.
The IDF will respond harshly as that is the only language Ham Ass understands. If that means that many of their partners in crime, i.e. the UNRWA staff who are in bed with the terroriosts and allow their facilities to be used to store and fire rockets and the civilians who know where the rockets are stored and do nothing to disclose the storage depots, get kileld that is called collateral damage. Collateral damage is unavoidable in war. N Obama Esq knows that from his Arabian adventures in Iraq, Afganistan and other places too numerous to mention.
What the Israelis may wisely do is to pound what is left of Gaza to a pulp while the world is watching N Obama Esq play games in Iraq. It is reported on CNN that F/A-18 aircraft dropped 500-pound laser-guided bombs on a mobile artillery piece near Irbil, Iraq. 500-pound bombs do an immense amount of damage to the hole surrounding where the bomb drops. A 500-pound bomb has a lethal fragmentation area of around 100yds but as they are almost always dropped in pairs, or multiple pairs, you have a string of overlapping blast circles. How many 500-pound bombs have the Israelis dropped on mobile artillery pieces in Gaza?
this picture is worrisome. You see the rockets shooting very low instead of shooting to the sky, which means:
1. less ability for iron dome
2. less time to run
Thank you avreimi: it’s about time somebody puts this akuperma and charlie hall in place!!
I live in Beitar! These people are clueless about what we put up with AND BEITAR IS GETTING MUCH LESS THAN OTHER PLACES!
Ashdod, Ashkelon, Sderot, Netivot etc. their lives have been so turned upside down! Yes, they’ve been shown open shmira from haShem but the daily fear cannot be described in mere words!
Children barely leave the house out of fear! Some families just sleep in their Cheder Shamur – children on the floor – so that night time is not disturbed! And these people are going to tell us to take it on the chin!! How dare they!
Arik Sharon after his first stroke woke up and laughed not realizing Hashem is giving you a chance to retreat from your wrong doing, so the second stroke came and ?????
The government had 72 hours to retreat from their wrong doing,stop fighting HASHEM, Hashem giving them a chance to retreat, now who knows whats next, YERACHEM HASHEM
We should offer to help build Gaza the largest combined airport/seaport in the world!
Airports require flat runways/taxiways/plane parking spaces, seaports require level quays and wharfs. I will be simply delighted to see the Israel Air Force turn all of Gaza into nice flat ground.
Can someone please explain the point of negotiating with Hamas if there are all these smaller terror actions which are not bound by any resolutions reached with Hamas??
When will these chilonim wake up and smell the coffee they need to exterminate each and every one of these rats. Does someone have to die first?!!!
“14:23: Leftists say the renewed rocket fire will not deter them and they will be holding their anti-war protest in Rabin Square tomorrow.”
It would be just great if a rocket would head their way and make them scatter during their “protest”.
Many of these lefties are arabs that were ‘bussed’ in from other places.
no. 9.. don’t you know that the US and the WEST (EXCEPT CANADA WHICH SEES THE TRUE PICTURE, have a double standard!!!! they are allowed everything with collateral damage without pre-warnings—but to israel it is “crime”!!!!
Avreimi #9 – *applause applause!* Brilliantly said. Yaapchik, agreed too, I live in Ramat Bet Shemesh. No fun – we watched IDF helicopters flying overhead as we were eating our Shabbat Seuda last night. We are lucky, like you said we don’t get too much B”H. This akuperma & his communist buddy charlie hall are the reason we don’t need “outside” critics. We have our own.