To: d[-_-]b who wrote (796131 ) 7/22/2014 12:41:05 PM From: tejek Read Replies (1) | Respond to No one continually lobs rockets into Israel. How about regularly - 11,000 rockets since Israel pulled out of Gaza 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 ]en.wikipedia.org
