In Gush Katif this morning, life was once again disrupted when a large bomb was discovered under the new overpass at Gush Katif Junction. Local residents had long protested the bridge, saying that it would be a prime target for terrorist activity. The bridge was designed to solve the problem of intersecting Jewish and Arab traffic; it enables north-south Israeli traffic to proceed unhindered while Arab east-west traffic carries on below. Army sources are trying to ascertain how the terrorists were able to place the bomb at the constantly-guarded site.
In another incident, a seven-year-old boy fell and broke his hand today while running to a shelter. It happened when two mortar shells were fired from PA areas and landed near the gate of N\'vei Dekalim. Another bomb was discovered outside Dugit, in northern Gaza, and was safely dismantled.
Gaza Coast Regional Council spokesman Eran Sternberg spoke with Arutz-7 today: |It is getting to be impossible to continue this way, where we have to stop our lives so often in order to run to shelter. An unbelievable number of 1,200 shells have been fired at us in the past months, and we will not let this continue… The army must take much more offensive actions - but meanwhile the Supreme Court, refusing to recognize that we are at war, doesn\'t even let the army destroy houses used by the terrorists to shoot at us… I should note that these 1,200 shells explode not only on us, but also on the very idea of erecting a partition along the Green Line. We are used as an example of a \'successful\' partition [because terrorists don\'t often infiltrate from Gaza], but the fence here certainly does not keep out the mortar shells. Are those who favor a fence truly willing to have the rest of Israel be a target of shells like we are? … There can be no compromise with terrorism.\"
In another incident, a seven-year-old boy fell and broke his hand today while running to a shelter. It happened when two mortar shells were fired from PA areas and landed near the gate of N\'vei Dekalim. Another bomb was discovered outside Dugit, in northern Gaza, and was safely dismantled.
Gaza Coast Regional Council spokesman Eran Sternberg spoke with Arutz-7 today: |It is getting to be impossible to continue this way, where we have to stop our lives so often in order to run to shelter. An unbelievable number of 1,200 shells have been fired at us in the past months, and we will not let this continue… The army must take much more offensive actions - but meanwhile the Supreme Court, refusing to recognize that we are at war, doesn\'t even let the army destroy houses used by the terrorists to shoot at us… I should note that these 1,200 shells explode not only on us, but also on the very idea of erecting a partition along the Green Line. We are used as an example of a \'successful\' partition [because terrorists don\'t often infiltrate from Gaza], but the fence here certainly does not keep out the mortar shells. Are those who favor a fence truly willing to have the rest of Israel be a target of shells like we are? … There can be no compromise with terrorism.\"