No one continually lobs rockets into Israel.
How about regularly - 11,000 rockets since Israel pulled out of Gaza
Thanks for bringing this graphic to my attention. I don't know the source.......you did not provide a link.......so I don't know how accurate it is. I do know that the numbers include mortar attacks; not just rockets. It shows just what I have been saying........there are no good guys in this mess and the US shouldn't be taking sides.
Nonetheless, the ongoing assault raises some important points:
First, from 2001-2006, these attacks were directed at just one small, Israeli city, Sderot........that's as far as Hamas could reach:
2001–06
Main articles: List of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel, 2001 and 2002–2006
Rockets were originally fired mainly on Sderot, an Israeli city on the border of the Gaza Strip. [36] Sderot's population density is slightly greater than that of the Gaza Strip. Due to this, and despite the imperfect aim of these homemade projectiles, they have caused deaths and injuries, as well as significant damage to homes and property, psychological distress and emigration from the city. Ninety percent of the city's residents have had a rocket exploding in their street or an adjacent one. [26]
On March 28, 2006, while Israelis went to general elections, the first Katyusha rocket from Gaza was fired at Israel. The rocket fell near the Itfah kibbutz on the outskirts of Ashkelon and caused no damage or casualties. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility. [37] [38] Several months later, On July 5, 2006, a rocket hit the center of Ashkelon for the first time, striking an empty high school. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called the attack, which was claimed by Hamas, an "escalation of unprecedented gravity", [39] [40] but the event was quickly overshadowed by the 2006 Lebanon War.
On 25 of May 2006 the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades group that published on April 2006 that they had been launching long range missile on Israeli cities, [41] sent a letter to Ramattan that they had developed Chemical and biological biological weapons and threaten with Chemical warfare. [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] later that month report of use of chemical weapons by that group had been published in the media. [47]
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Secondly, continually suggests an every day event. That is hardly the case with these rocket attacks. These attacks tend to be group together and there are long periods where there are no attacks.
Thirdly, Israelis have some protection from the Iron Dome and have an extensive alert and shelter system which affords them considerable protection. That's why they have had so few casualties. Palestinians, on the other hand, have no such protections in place. Its why their death toll is so high.
Fourthly, clearly Israel has the upper hand in this very dysfunctional situation. Why do you think Israel is not taking the steps needed to bring this ongoing conflict to a close? Instead, Israelis keep taking more and more land and water from the Palestinians which only infuriates the Palestinians and causes to continue the conflict.
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