This Ongoing War..
16 November '12..
Click link for 2:45 pm update 16-Nov-12: Tel Aviv targeted a second time, and some responses
Here's an updated brief snapshot at 1:00 pm on a sunny but extremely tense Friday.
It continues to rain rockets here. The official IDF talley is 67 Palestinian Arab rockets, fired from Gaza, that struck Israel today. They continue to be fired at us with all the power that the terrorists can summon up.
The total since Wednesday is 335.
The Iron Dome system intercepted 55 rockets in mid-air, today alone. (That number and the others above have almost certainly grown since we started writing this post.)
If Israelis expected the rate at which the terrorist forces in Gaza fire rockets into the cities, towns and farming communities of southern Israel to diminish after the events of Wednesday evening, it is not working out that way. Homefront Defense Minister Avi Dichter, quoted in Times of Israel this morning, says we should expect "hundreds of rockets per day to be launched at Israel from Gaza over the coming days".
Egyptian prime minister Hisham Qandil has come (to Gaza) and gone. CNN quotes an un-named source in Israel's Ministry of Defence saying that "during the Egyptian prime minister's visit, 50 rockets flew out of Gaza toward Israel". Very surprising. Not.
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