Terrorists fired five mortar shells at Israel Thursday afternoon. They exploded in open, unpopulated areas within the jurisdiction of the Eshkol Regional Council. No one was hurt.
Chaim Yalin, Eshkol Regional Council Head, told Arutz Sheva's Hebrew service in response that “Hamas only recently announced it was ceasing rocket fire at Israel. We have experience with these things and know the reality.”
“As long as the Palestinians maintain the quiet, the State of Israel will also maintain it,” he said. “The terror organizations must understand that if they continue to fire then the IDF will respond. No country in the world would refrain from protecting its citizens.”
Yalin added sarcastically: "I would expect Judge [Richard] Goldstone to begin to receive the latest reports, of the repeated fire by the terrorists on the communities of the Gaza Belt.” He was referring to the retired South African judge who complied a damning UN report against Israel's Cast Lead counter-terror operation.