No one was hurt by the Arab rocket attacks, though one of the rockets landed dangerously near a city gas station.
The IDF announced this morning that as a result of the continuing Kassam attacks, it aerially attacked eight access routes in the northern Gaza Strip. The objective was to prevent the passage of terrorists to the areas from which they fire rockets at Israel, and to disrupt their rocket activities in general.
News of one of the rocket attacks reached the Mayor of Sderot, Eli Moyal, as he was listening to Likud Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu tell an audience of party activists how to fight Kassams. Speaking at a gathering of Likud activists in Jerusalem, Netanyahu said, "There are a thousand ways to deal with Kassam rockets."
"We cannot fight rockets with a 'bang-bang-and-it's-over' approach," Netanyahu told the Likud supporters in the Knesset Tower Hotel. "We have to fight terrorism methodically. If [Sderot Mayor] Eli Moyal is unable to sleep at night [because of the rockets], then neither will the residents of Gaza be able to sleep."
The gathering was organized by Likud Knesset candidate Shmuel Slavin, a former Director-General of the Ministries of Labor and Finance. MK Ehud Yatom was also in attendance.
"We see how the warnings that were talked about before the disengagement are coming true," Netanyahu said. "It encouraged terrorism, the Kassams are reaching Ashkelon, the Hamas is getting stronger, Abu Mazen is getting weaker, and the Philadelphi Route [between Gaza and Egypt] is full of holes. The nation must choose between blindness and waking up."
The former Prime Minister also said, "There have been many periods in history when the nation did not identify the dangers in time. It's not enough to be strong; we must see the danger and act sensibly. Common sense dictates that you fight terrorism and not give in to it. The attempt to appease terrorism and to respond to some of its demands merely encourages more terrorism."
The IDF announced this morning that as a result of the continuing Kassam attacks, it aerially attacked eight access routes in the northern Gaza Strip. The objective was to prevent the passage of terrorists to the areas from which they fire rockets at Israel, and to disrupt their rocket activities in general.
News of one of the rocket attacks reached the Mayor of Sderot, Eli Moyal, as he was listening to Likud Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu tell an audience of party activists how to fight Kassams. Speaking at a gathering of Likud activists in Jerusalem, Netanyahu said, "There are a thousand ways to deal with Kassam rockets."
"We cannot fight rockets with a 'bang-bang-and-it's-over' approach," Netanyahu told the Likud supporters in the Knesset Tower Hotel. "We have to fight terrorism methodically. If [Sderot Mayor] Eli Moyal is unable to sleep at night [because of the rockets], then neither will the residents of Gaza be able to sleep."
The gathering was organized by Likud Knesset candidate Shmuel Slavin, a former Director-General of the Ministries of Labor and Finance. MK Ehud Yatom was also in attendance.
"We see how the warnings that were talked about before the disengagement are coming true," Netanyahu said. "It encouraged terrorism, the Kassams are reaching Ashkelon, the Hamas is getting stronger, Abu Mazen is getting weaker, and the Philadelphi Route [between Gaza and Egypt] is full of holes. The nation must choose between blindness and waking up."
The former Prime Minister also said, "There have been many periods in history when the nation did not identify the dangers in time. It's not enough to be strong; we must see the danger and act sensibly. Common sense dictates that you fight terrorism and not give in to it. The attempt to appease terrorism and to respond to some of its demands merely encourages more terrorism."