Seriously, home-made rockets? What damage can they possibly do?

...So in the interests of fleshing out this rather superficial picture, allow us to introduce partisan observers and reporters to Aisha Atiya Mohammedin. She's a mostly-unknown Gazan Palestinian Arab woman, aged 52, who had the misfortune to be inside her own home in the rather miserable northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun (population: somewhere in the 30,000's), located close to the border fence with Israel on Friday March 14, 2014. Sometime that day, Mrs Mohammedin's living room was re-arranged permanently by an incoming home-made rocket, evidently despatched by one of her terror-loving neighbors.

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
05 April '14..

When hostile-to-Israel news sources (like Ma'an) persist in characterizing the rocket attacks on Israeli civilian targets as being based on something they call home-made projectiles, those of us who care about such matters need to pay a little attention to what they're not reporting. [There's some background here: "5-Apr-14: Saturday night rocket attack from Gaza; that's 5, mainly unreported, in the past two days"]

Let's recognize that calling them home-made is part of a strategy to dismiss exaggerated Israeli concerns about rockets falling out of the sky and landing - as any reader of the pro-terror news media knows - "harmlessly".

So in the interests of fleshing out this rather superficial picture, allow us to introduce partisan observers and reporters to Aisha Atiya Mohammedin. She's a mostly-unknown Gazan Palestinian Arab woman, aged 52, who had the misfortune to be inside her own home in the rather miserable northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun (population: somewhere in the 30,000's), located close to the border fence with Israel on Friday March 14, 2014.

Sometime that day, Mrs Mohammedin's living room was re-arranged permanently by an incoming home-made rocket, evidently despatched by one of her terror-loving neighbors.

Now, this was not a military rocket or a ballistic rocket. No. It was a home-made rocket like those referred to routinely in the Palestinian Arab media, as well as in certain ideologically-driven mainstream news sources. We're familiar with the term, from such gentle, etymologically-similar usages as home-made tomato sauce and home-made quilts.

But the home-made rocket in question, fired from within the Gaza Strip and with Israeli victims in mind, was not gentle. It caused shrapnel injuries to Mrs Mohammedin that included amputating the hand off her right arm. Her injuries were treated in Gaza City's Shifa Hospital but without success, and that is where she died that day. Five additional people, including three children, all of them hitherto living in the Beit Hanoun residence, suffered injuries. Etab Jamal Mohammedin, aged 24, sustained shrapnel injuries to the face and neck. Wesam Isma'il Mohammedin, just 3, sustained shrapnel injuries to the legs. Ranin Mohammedin, a little girl aged 4 suffered unspecified injuries. And Abdul Fattah, aged 5, the same. Isma'il Mohammedin, described as "the house's owner" and we guess the husband of Mrs Mohammedin, sustained bruises.

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