Hamas Rocket Hits Israeli Special Needs Childcare Centre
Those ‘humanitarian-crisis’ Palestinians once again strike at Israel with deadly missiles – this time managing to hit a hydrotherapy centre for disabled kids. Once again, the world ignores it – it doesn’t quite chime with the mainstream media’s narrative of the ‘oppressed Palestinians’ and ‘prison camp’ Gaza, you understand.
The article below – for the Jerusalem Post ‘First Person’ series, illustrates the what is really happening on the ground – Hamas are firing larger, longer-range and more deadly rockets into Israeli towns as fast as Iran can send the components. The piece also reveals just why the Israelis have been so careful to allow only certain materials into the strip:
On any other day, the facility on the Sapir campus would have been packed with kids, and the losses would have been devastating.
The child hydrotherapy rehabilitation center adjoining Sderot’s Sapir Academic College provides therapy and workshops for specialneeds children who live in the western Negev and is used by children from the entire country.
On Saturday night, an upgraded Qassam rocket scored a direct hit on the ceiling of the center.
The Qassam hit not far from where Sapir student Roni Yechiah was killed on February 27, 2008. The attack followed the explosion of a Iranian Grad missile that hit the city of Ashkelon on Friday morning.
We are approaching a total of 400 rocket attacks launched from Gaza since the cease-fire that halted Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in Gaza in January 2009.
Palestinians from Hamas controlled Gaza have targeted Ashkelon, with a population of 125,000 Israelis, since March 2008.
A film crew from our Sderot Media Center arrived a few hours after Saturday’s attack, where an IDF Home Front Command officer was assessing the damage.
As the crew filmed, a childcare worker arrived at the destroyed office. She was overwhelmed by the devastation.
She walked through the rubble that had been her office and, looking through the mess, she picked up a photo of her two children that had been hanging on the wall.
Had the rocket struck on any other day, it would have been a catastrophe, killing and wounding the children at the center. During the week the center is open until 10 p.m. and is packed with hundreds of children and therapists.
Because there were no casualties the attack has not remained in the headlines for very long. In the eyes of the media and the public, again, because there were no causalities, it was of little importance. The incident came at the height of summer vacation, when weather reports on the expected high temperatures across the nation take precedence over the lethal missiles raining down on southern Israel.
But had there been children at this rehabilitation center during the Kassam strike, and had lives been lost, the IDF might have had no choice but to reenter Gaza, and we might then have witnessed the firing of thousands of upgraded missiles capable of reaching Tel Aviv.
Israeli intelligence confirms that Hamas has assembled an arsenal of thousands of missiles including many with a range of 40 kilometers.
Yet until there is a human catastrophe that would seemingly justify an appropriate military response, Israel continues to supply the Hamas regime in Gaza with humanitarian aid, as well as the bills and coins it needs to maintain its enterprise.
It is common knowledge that everyday items such as fertilizer are used to manufacture fuel for Kassam rockets.
Cement intended for civilian reconstruction is instead used to build and reinforce bunkers and tunnels.
Metal intended for water pipes and streetlight poles ends up in the rocketmanufacturing facilities managed by Hamas.
Furthermore, Israel provides Gaza with electricity, water and sewerage, and has built the power plants in Ashkelon that provide over 70 percent of Gaza’s electricity, which have been a favorite target of Palestinian terrorists.
Ignoring these facts about Hamas, the world holds Israel totally responsible for the Gazan population of 1.4 million.
Yet, five years ago, Israel withdrew its key military and civilian presence from Gaza, giving land for the hope of peace – something that no other democracy in modern history has done.
The writer, Noam Bedein is a photojournalist, lecturer and founder/director of Sderot Media Center. He has conducted briefings and tours for government officials, diplomats, foreign press, and students from around the world.
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I highly doubt that all of the facts are in on this. There were no children there and how do we know this is not a ploy by Israel to point fingers? It is not a ludicrous thought.
We ‘highly doubt’ whether anyone who gives their email address as ‘pigglypie@hotmail.com’ would know a ludicrous thought if it slapped them around the head.
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August 2, 2010. There were four to five rockets fired toward the southern Israel port city of Eilat (www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138900) The police there suspect that the rockets were Iranian built Grads (www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/191290). Recall that Iran is a peace loving nation that is only going to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes (lol – sarcasm). Does anyone recall the political remake of the old Beach Boy tune, “Barbara Ann?”
No good deed goes unpunished. The Israelis left gaza, but have received only islamicized violence and brutality in return. hamas is determined to kill defenseless Israeli civilians because they can and it’s the only thing islamists are trained to do. At some point, Israel will attack hamas personnel and installations in gaza, the hamas cowards will hide behind women and children, and the world will condemn Israel for its disproportionate” response. hamas wants palestinians to suffer and live in misery in order to blame Israel for its “oppression.”
Israel should hit them hard and fast the hell with world opinion thet hate israel no matter what it does worry about your own people Israel and quit hopeing people will like you if only you let some of you die
There is no Palestine. This is just muslims trying to kill jews. They’re just doing what the koran tells them too.
This insanity goes on and on and the western liberal media is implicit in their guilt in allowing this to continue.
All this should be obvious to everyone, but it seems that they’ll only notice after another 9-11. Of course these Islamo-Fascists including Iran and their puppets are playing for time so they’ll be armed with nuclear weapons.
Sheik Yer Bhouti, You are right,” Of course these Islamofascists including Iran and their puppets are playing for time so they’ll be armed with nuclear weapons” That is the whole purpose of Iran delaying tactics,as Obama is a muslim even Obama is reluctant to attack Iran,see for yourself go to YouTube and type in “obama admits he is a muslim” and listen to him. We still have naive people in the west who don’t know much about the evil perpetrated by Palestinians/Arabs.