Deja vu all over again: Grad rocket hits Netivot
When I saw the reports on Twitter, I thought maybe we were celebrating a retrospective from a year ago. But then I realized that a year ago I had just signed up for Twitter, didn't really understand how it worked, and was only following @weblogawards (anyone know what happened to them?), so this one had to be in real time.A grad-type Katyusha rocket hit Netivot on Thursday night around 9:30. This was the first rocket of that type fired from the Gaza Strip in nearly a year. One woman suffered from shock, but no damage was reported. Residents reported hearing a second explosion, but the IDF found no evidence of it. The "color red" warning system did not work.
More details here, here and here.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:58 AM
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The deterrence so painfully won a year ago will wear off fast if Israel does not react decisively to this act of aggression.
So much for a cease-fire. Perhaps it is time to finish the job in Gaza.
Happy New Year!
Shalom
I live about 5 kilometers west of Netivot in the Sedot Negev Moshavim. We heard the Tzeva Adom alert in the near distance, probably from Kfar Maymon and Shuva. I heard one explosion fairly close by, west of Kfar Maymon, in the fields or a wadi is my guess, and then a second in the far distance that would have been Netivot.
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