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Rocket Statistics, 3 Jan 2009
Rocket Statistics Today, over 950,000 Israelis live within range of rocket and mortar attacks. There have been approximately 7,200 rockets (Grads, Qassams) and mortars launched at Israel since 2005. During 2008, there have been 1755 mortars shells, 1720 Qassams rockets, and 75 Grad ...
Israel launches ground offensive in the Gaza Strip - Haaretz - Israel News
haaretz.com — Palestinian witnesses said the artillery barrage caused a large explosion in Gaza City as well as a... series of blasts stitching the nearby frontier with Israel. Channel 10 television quoted a witness as saying that Israel was shelling targets along the ... (more) Israel launches ground offensive in the Gaza ...
Hamas moves on Fatah 'collaborators' | Middle East | Jerusalem Post
Hamas moves on Fatah 'collaborators' | Middle East | Jerusalem Post
jpost.com — The Hamas government has placed dozens of Fatah members under house arrest out of fear that they... might exploit the current IDF operation to regain control of the Gaza Strip. The move came amid reports that the Fatah leadership in the West Bank has ... (more) Hamas moves on Fatah 'collaborators' | Middle East | ...
Israel splits Gaza in three as soldiers battle Hamas
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Ground Action in Gaza
Gates of Vienna — ... Arabs are whining about proportionality. According to IDF statisticsHamas fired some 7,200 rockets at Israel since 2005. According to the Sderot media center, they fired 10,046 rockets since 2002 (the IDF spokesman lists data from 2005 till today). To be proportionate, we still owe them thousands of rockets. I agree, we should, at least, be proportionate. ...

Perspective/Proportional
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE — ... the 2007 number. And this figures in the six-month “lull” period, during which “only” around 100 rockets were fired. She also did not mention that the range and deadliness of Hamas’ rockets increased as well, putting around 15 percent of the Israeli population under Hamas’ missile umbrella. (The “disproportionality” fetishists also never get around to noting that Israel has conducted less than a thousand air strikes in response to over 7,000 Hamas rocket attacks since 2005.) ...

CNN’s Terrorist Sympathizing War-Whore Blatantly Lies In Broadcast - w/Video
Pat Dollard | Young Americans — ... — to 3,278 — from the 2007 number. And this figures in the six-month “lull” period, during which “only” around 100 rockets were fired. She also did not mention that the range and deadliness of Hamas’ rockets increased as well, putting around 15 percent of the Israeli population under Hamas’ missile umbrella. (The “disproportionality” fetishists also never get around to noting that Israel has conducted less than a thousand air strikes in response to over 7,000 Hamas rocket attacks since 2005.) ...

The Gaza War and the "Anti-War" Left
Stones Cry Out — ... "There have been approximately 7,200 rockets (Grads, Qassams) and mortars launched at Israel since 2005", according to IDFSpokesperson.com.  There are more stats at the link, but let that one sink in for a moment (especially after reading ...

Carter’s version of the War in Gaza
QandO — ... To give a little context to what has caused Israel to finally act against Hamas in Gaza after 3+ years let’s look at what Hamas has actually done. ...

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IDF: Rocket StatisticsThe Jawa Report
From IDF blog* Today, over 950,000 Israelis live within range of rocket and mortar attacks. *There have been approximately 7,200 rockets (Grads, Qassams) and mortars launched at Israel since 2005. *During 2008, there have been 1755 mortars shells, 1720 Qassams...