Gaza Rocket Hits Home in Be’er Sheva, Elderly Woman Injured

Rocket fired from Gaza gets by Iron Dome to hit a home in Be’er Sheva, injuring a woman & causing extensive damage to the building.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

A rocket fired from Gaza hit a home in the southern Israeli city of Be’er Sheva on Friday evening.

A woman in her 80s suffered mild injuries and was taken to the Soroka Hospital for treatment. Extensive damage was caused to the building.

A salvo of rockets hit southern Israel earlier on Friday evening, with at least five rockets fired towards Ashdod.

Two rockets were intercepted by Iron Dome. Three other rockets exploded in open areas. Continue Reading »

Israel’s cellphone towers go into the service of meteorology scientists

 

Israeli scientists refined a method of using cellular towers to measure rainfall, snow & even detect fog.

By Iddo Genuth

 

Serendipity or a happy accidental discovery, has been a well documented part of the development of science and technology throughout recorded history. From Penicillin to Viagra, x-rays to the cosmic background radiation (the ancient hum left by the Big Bang), chance was there to help those who had an open mind.

Missouri Judge Blocks Laws on Cell Phone Towers. August 29, 2013 ( Thomas Coex/AFP )

Cell Phone Towers. – Photo: Thomas Coex/AFP

Professor Hagit Messer from Tel Aviv University had a small help from lady luck when she realized about 10 years ago that it is possible to dramatically improve the accuracy of environmental monitoring using an unexpected tool – cellular towers – such as the ones found in and around any modern city. Continue Reading »

Lebanese Report: Man arrested in connection to earlier rocket fired at Israel

Lebanese media says military personal recovered additional rockets at launching site, prepared by unknown militant group, assumed to also be fired toward Israel.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

 

Lebanese authorities reportedly arrested one person on Friday in connection to the rocket attack from Lebanon into Israel earlier this morning.

 Lebanese army personnel inspects the remains of a shell that was suspected of having been launched from Lebanon to Israel, near the village of El Mari in Southern Lebanon July 11, 2014.   - Photo: Reuters/Karamallah Daher

Lebanese army personnel inspects the remains of a shell that was suspected of having been launched from Lebanon to Israel, near the village of El Mari in Southern Lebanon July 11, 2014 – Photo: Reuters/Karamallah Daher

The Beirut-based newspaper The Daily Star, cited security forces as saying the suspect’s car had blood stains that matched blood traces found at the scene where the rocket was launched. Continue Reading »

Palestinian President criticizes Hamas’ rocket attacks on Israel

 

President Abbas said  on Palestinian TV, that its preferable ‘to fight with wisdom & politics’, and also called on all parties to end military conflict.

By Ynetnews

 

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas went on Palestinian television Thursday to condemn the ongoing rocket fire from Gaza on Israel, Bloomberg reported.

Le président palestinien Mahmoud Abbas, à Ramallah le 10 mars 2014 ( Abbas Momani (AFP) )

Abbas in Ramallah – Photo: Abbas Momani/AFP

“What are you trying to achieve by sending rockets?” Abbas asked, without mentioning Hamas directly by name. “We prefer to fight with wisdom and politics.”

The comments were the first such condemnation from the Palestinian leader since Israel’s launch of Operation Protective Edge on Monday, during which hundreds of rockets have been fired from Gaza at Israeli communities across the country, and around 100 Palestinians, including dozens of children, have been reported killed in IAF attacks. Continue Reading »

Israeli Children’s Rocket Alert Song Goes Viral

Developed by Joint Distribution Committee in 2008 for a Sderot kindergarten teacher, who wanted to do something to help the children in her class deal with air raid sirens and the ongoing rocket attacks against Israel.

This song is that much more relevant today.

 

The recent barrage of rockets fired by Hamas at Israel has revived the fortunes of a video developed in 2008 as part of a trauma intervention effort in Sderot by the Joint Distribution Committee.

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Schoolchildren in Sderot, July 10, 2014. – Photo: Cheli Goldenberg

“The Code Red (Tzeva Adom) Song,” named for the code word for rocket attacks in Israel, is going viral on YouTube, with over 43,000 hits as of Friday morning for the version that was uploaded in 2012. Continue Reading »

U.S. Will Back Israel Should Jerusalem Decide on Ground Assault on Gaza

US Ambassador to Israel said on Israel’s Army Radio Friday morning that ‘no one wants a ground operation,’ but Washington backs Israel in any case.

By Ari Yashar

 

US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro spoke to Galei Tzahal (IDF Radio) on Friday morning, and committed America’s firm support for Israel if it decides to launch a ground offensive on the Hamas stronghold of Gaza.

The statement comes after the IDF on Thursday afternoon sent telephone warnings to 100,000 residents of Gaza, telling them to evacuate the area near the security border in an indication of an imminent ground entry. Continue Reading »

Lebanese Group Fires Katyusha Rocket at Upper Galilee

IDF returns fire from area where small radical organization, not Hezbollah, fired single rocket from Lebanon, senior army source says.

 

 

One rocket was fired from Lebanon on Friday morning on a village in the Upper Galilee. There were no injuries in the attack.

me digging out Katyusha rocket

Retrieving remnants of an exploded Katyusha rocket in Upper Galilee Kibbutz (archives) – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

Artillery fire was directed at the area from which the rocket was fired, a senior army source said.

The rocket was not fired by Hezbollah but by a small radical organization in Lebanon, Maj.-Gen. Continue Reading »

Hamas Launches Rockets at Israel’s Nuclear Reactor

5 Million Israelis under rocket threat with Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and further cities targeted, but Iron Dome manages to protect the cities & other sensitive targets amidst Hamas’ onslaught.

By Israel Today Staff

 

As Hamas desperately seeks what Israeli media termed a “quality” terror attack, it escalated rocket fire from Gaza on Wednesday and Thursday by targeting Israel’s nuclear reactor in the southern town of Dimona and firing barrage after barrage at the densely-populated Tel Aviv area.

Iron Dome launched to intercept & destroy incoming Gaza rocket – Photo source: Israel Today

Hamas and its allies have fired around 300 missiles and rockets from Gaza over the past week.

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Israel Air Force Executes Over 930 Terror Targets Successfully in Gaza

After Security Cabinet meeting, Israel’s Defense Minister, Chief of Staff & IAF Commander discuss details of upcoming operations.

By Ari Yashar

 

After a lengthy Security Cabinet meeting, Israel’s military leaders spoke about the road ahead for Operation Protective Edge, which has already hit 930 terror targets in the Hamas enclave of Gaza.

“Hundreds of targets have been destroyed including the homes of militants, government institutions, launchers, rockets and other war materiel,” said Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon after the meeting.

Thanking the IDF for its firm defense of Israel, Ya’alon remarked “the IDF has impressively succeeded in intercepting the rockets being launched at the State of Israel, and in thwarting the terrorist organizations’ malicious intentions to perpetrate attacks, both by sea and in other ways.” Continue Reading »

Israel Amb. Prosor tell UN: Cease-fire not goal, now we dismantle Hamas rocket infrastructure

At emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, Secretary General says Israeli ground option still preventable if Hamas stops rocket fire.

 

UN Secretary General Ben Ki-moon said Thursday that an Israeli ground operation in the Gaza Strip is still preventable if Hamas stops rocket fire.

The United Nations Security Council meets to discuss the Israel-Gaza conflict, July 10, 2014

The United Nations Security Council meets to discuss the Israel-Gaza conflict, July 10, 2014, at the United Nations in New York. – Photo: AFP

Speaking at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council in New York, Ban expressed concern for the wellbeing of civilians in both Israel and Gaza, adding that the citizens of Gaza are caught between Hamas’ irresponsible behavior and Israel’s air strikes.

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#OperationProtectiveEdge – Day 3: Hamas targets Jerusalem,Tel Aviv; 2 soldiers hurt

Watch: Jerusalem from high-rise while siren sounds & rocket intercepted.

Roundup of Hamas’ rockets from Gaza fired at cities across Israel with Iron Dome shooting down dozens.

By JPOST.COM STAFF, YAAKOV LAPPIN

 

Dozens of rockets were fired at Israeli cities on Thursday evening, with Gaza terrorists targeting Beersheba, Dimona, Rehovot, Jerusalem and the greater Tel Aviv area.

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Police photo of cars torched in rocket strike in Ashdod

The sirens, interceptions, and rising Palestinian death toll from IDF strikes in Gaza marked the third day of Operation Protective Edge.

Two soldiers were hurt by a mortar shell in the Eshkol Regional Council area . Continue Reading »

U.S. lawmakers back Israel in Gaza conflict by introducing resolution

The resolution supports Israel’s right to defend itself against unprovoked rocket attacks from the terrorist group Hamas.

 

 

WASHINGTON – A resolution in support of Israel’s right to defend itself against rocket fire from Gaza was introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives.

The resolution, which has more than 50 bipartisan sponsors, was introduced Wednesday by Reps. Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) and Tom Cole (R-Okla.) in response to the attacks on Israel following the murder last month of three Israeli teenagers.

Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) and Tom Cole (R-Okla.)

Steve Israel (D-N.Y.) and Tom Cole (R-Okla.)

It supports Israel’s right to defend itself against what the resolution calls unprovoked rocket attacks from the terrorist group Hamas and condemns the attacks.

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UN Security Council convenes special session on Israel after Arab’s demand

 

 

Organization of Islamic Countries demands Security Council to ‘stop Israeli aggression.’

Ron Prosor, Israel’s ambassador to UN addresses UN delegates.

By Yitzhak Benhorin

 

The United Nations Security Council convened Thursday for a special session, at the request of the Arab delegates, to discuss the IDF’s Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip. During the open session, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor and the Palestinian delegate Riyad Mansour addressed the assembled diplomats.

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor

UN chief Ban warned that there was a danger that Israel would launch a ground operation in Gaza if Hamas does not end the rocket and missile fire on Israeli territory. Continue Reading »

Israel Security Nab 3 Palestinian terrorists with Bomb on major West Bank highway

3 Palestinians driving with an explosive devise, heading towards Israel, was intercepted by Defense Ministry security guards at a checkpoint on Route 5.

 

Defense Ministry security guards stopped a Palestinian car with two passengers carrying a bomb they believe was meant for a terror attack inside Israel, Judea and Samaria police said Thursday afternoon.

Israel Police Sapper neutralizes explosive devise - Screenshot

The white four-door hatchback with Palestinian plates was stopped at the Oranit checkpoint on highway 5 northeast of Tel Aviv after it “drew the suspicion of security guards” according to police. Inside the car, the Defense Ministry said their security guards found a gas canister hooked up with electric wires which they say they believe was an explosive device. Continue Reading »

Jew beaten & hospitalized by Palestinian extremists in Toronto

Brandishing ‘Never Again’ on his sleeve, Sun News reports how Jewish man was brutally attacked by pro-Palestine thugs

 

 

A Palestinian mob was taped beating Jews with both Palestine flags and Canadian flags:

 

Injured man taken to hospital by paramedics. – Screenshot

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