Commentary;
It takes no intelligence at all to have predicted this scenario! MB
Israel, Palestinians OK Gaza Cease-fire
’Ceasefire’ in Gaza: Terrorists Fire Five Kassams, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News)
Excerpts;
The Israeli-Palestinian Authority ceasefire came into effect at 6 AM, and Palestinian terrorists have fired no fewer than five Kassam rockets since then.
The Prime Minister’s Office announced late last night that PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas had informed Olmert that all the Palestinian terrorist factions had agreed to stop all hostile activities against Israel. These included, Abbas said, tunnel-digging, suicide bombers, and Kassam rockets. Israel agreed in return to remove all its forces from Gaza.
All IDF forces were withdrawn from Gaza in the course of the night – and shortly afterwards, two terrorist groups announced they were not parties to the ceasefire agreement. Islamic Jihad and the Abu Rish Brigades of Fatah declared this morning that they would continue firing rockets at Israeli citizens.
In the meanwhile, three rockets hit the besieged city of Sderot and environs around 8 AM, and another Kassam was fired at the Eshkol region of the Negev. Sderot residents, whose great hopes of rocket-less tranquility to which they awoke were dashed with the crash of the rockets, took to the streets once again today. They burned tires and shouted angry epithets against Prime Minister Olmert and his government.
Shortly before 10 AM, a fifth rocket slammed into the town, but causing no physical damage.
At 5:40 AM, just before the ceasefire came into effect, a Kassam rocket caused significant damage to a house in Sderot; the family had responded quickly to the Color Red warning alert, finding refuge in a protected room in the house.
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