Rocket fired from Gaza Strip hits southern Israel: Police

[Major Shaitan Singh]

JERUSALEM: A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed early Tuesday near Ashkelon in southern Israel, police said, in the first such strike since a November truce.
"The rocket fell early in the morning near Ashkelon and did some damage to a road, without hurting anyone," said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.

It was the first such attack since the end of an Israeli operation late November, during which more than a thousand rockets were fired into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by the Islamist group Hamas.

The two sides finally agreed a truce on November 21 following the eight-day Israeli military operation inside Gaza.

The violence killed 177 Palestinians, about a hundred of them civilians, as well as six Israelis, four of whom were civilians, according to figures issued by the two sides.

Tuesday's rocket fire comes at a time when tensions are particularly high following the weekend death of a Palestinian prisoner in an Israeli jail, who the Palestinians say had been tortured.

Thousands of Palestinians thronged the West Bank village of Sair on Monday for the funeral of Arafat Jaradat, a 30-year-old father of two and member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.

Both the Palestinians and the United Nations special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Robert Serry, have called for an independent inquiry into his death.

What happened to Iron Dome was it sleeping !!

 

[PteX]

Iron dome detected that it would land in an open field, that is what happened.

 

[Arabian Legend]

Lol O may it rains a lot.

 

[Cherokee]

Lol O may it rains a lot.

So that you guys can cry a river and beat your chests over it while doing nothing except cheap talks .

 

[Shivani Malhotra]

Lol O may it rains a lot.

It will rain but from other side of the border and U all as usual will cry a river.

 

[force1]

iron dome is one of the best,,, i think isreal dint instaled iron dome batries at that time

 

[Ayush]

Lol O may it rains a lot.

it usually does,but the other way around.

 

[RFS_Br]

Iron dome detected that it would land in an open field, that is what happened.

Liar. The rocket fell on a road. As discussed in a thread I posted some time ago, all of hype behind the Iron Dome may be more grounded on propaganda than on facts. Anyway, I see that the Indo-Jewish shills are full of hot air, as if there was any merit to slaughtering a people who are besieged, lack a true army, an air force, a navy and what not.

 

[TheJewverine]

Liar. The rocket fell on a road. As discussed in a tread I posted some time ago, all of hype behind the Iron Dome may be more rounded on propaganda than on facts. Anyway , I see that the Indo-Jewish shills are full of hot air, as if there was any merit to slaughtering a people who are besieged, lack a true army, an air force, a navy and what not.

Yeah, it's all propaganda, I guess that's why it has such a high success rate.

 

[RFS_Br]

Yeah, it's all propaganda, I guess that's why it has such a high success rate.

I forgot to include a link to the thread that I mentioned. Here it is. Missile defense systems, according to the author, have a history of being claimed by governments that employ them as having high rates of success, which turn out to be grossly inflated under independent examination. That may well turn out to be the Iron Dome's case, as its "high success rate" has so far not been independently verified.