Netanyahu is in a Dilemma

There is a crash three times so loudly that all back involuntarily and still close in the entrance in the David Remez street in Ashqelon Crouch. The time is not enough to run to the Bunker. Then a half-dozen explosions are heard and a weft. White Squiggles on the blue sky – the sign that the Israeli missile defense system Iron Dome (iron dome) has intercepted several projectiles.

Two men in her vehicle on the other side of the road and ran over the green stripe in the middle in the direction of the building; a bus driver and his four passengers fled from the vehicle in the protection of the house walls. You will be pressed to each other, the women behind the men. First of all, it is completely silent. As the sirens stop crying after five minutes, they all start by each other, coaxing: "Why us?" the Russian-born Jew, Svetlana, David asks. "This must end," says Arye Ramon. The bus driver stretched out, only the fist towards the sky.

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All jump back in their vehicles, but after 300 meters, the next Alarm is coming. Again, the entrance to the house. Two technicians will make your Jeep stand and sprint under the canopy. More leisurely it goes back after three minutes with the vehicle. As within seven minutes the next rocket alarm at the Begin-Boulevard follows, let the drivers to their cars even in the fast Lane and seek protection behind your vehicle on that side which is remote from the Gaza strip.

Three rockets alarms within fifteen minutes, on Sunday at 13 o'clock. A rocket, a factory building hits in Ashqelon, three people are injured, a man dies later in hospital. Another is hit in his white station wagon in the middle of the road in the vicinity of Yad Mordechai, is of Ashqelon twelve kilometers away, of a rocket is deadly.

Dikla Dayan has big fear to embark at all on the road, and you will quickly understand why: she tells of how on the night of Sunday, the Grandfather of her daughter in Ashqelon from the shrapnel of a rocket from the Gaza strip fatally hit. The projectile tore a big hole in his chest. "He has tried to awaken other people, so that they can bring in safety," says the 27-Year-old.

coordination Hamas and Islamic Jihad

Moshe Agadi, who was running a vegetable shop in Ashqelon, have a cigarette in the Outdoor Smoking, tells his brother, Schmulik. It is 2.45 PM in the night to Sunday, when the missile struck. The 58-Year-old was in the midst of been in the garden of the house, which is located in the South of Ashqelon. In the earth a hole of a little less than a Meter in diameter, is now to be seen.

Also on Sunday afternoon, the rocket attacks in the communities around the Gaza strip continue unabated. Since Saturday, at ten o'clock Palestinian militants firing almost continuously rockets on Israeli areas. Alone until Sunday afternoon, there are a total of around 600 attacks. According to army spokesman Jonathan Conricus about 70 percent of the rockets landed in an open field. The majority of the rest of the projectiles was intercepted by the missile defense. The Israeli army has attacked more than 260 targets in the Gaza strip. Among other things, a cross-border Tunnel in Rafah, as well as military installations in the Gaza strip's ruling have been radically attacked the Islamic Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the second-largest group. 15 people have been killed.

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According to the Israeli army to a coordinated campaign of Hamas and Islamic Jihad is behind the rocket hail. It is the most intense shelling since last November. Especially, the Islamic Jihad should be upset about the slow progress of the negotiations on a longer-term ceasefire under Egyptian mediation. According to Palestinian reports, Israel is not implementing its Commitments, for example, those that lift the Blockade of goods. The Islamic Jihad can't feel, therefore, to the Hamas-initiated restraint bound, claimed by Israel as a concession. Most recently, it had shortly before the elections in Israel on March 9. April a military confrontation given, since then, relative calm had prevailed.

Soon Song Contest

starts According to the Israeli army, the Islamic Jihad has been trying for about two weeks, to sabotage actions of the negotiations. An attack on two Israeli soldiers at the border on Friday, in the opinion of military experts. You were injured by gunfire. The Israeli army attacked the Gaza strip and killed four Palestinians. Subsequently, the Hamas retaliation is sworn and the Islamic Jihad to the common wave of attack have been determined.

Since Saturday, rocket alarm was not heard only in the areas around the Gaza strip, but also in the Central region, in the city of Rechovot, or in Bet Shemesh. The militant Palestinians obviously want to use the time before the Eurovision Song Contest in two weeks, in order to exert pressure on Israel. The Israeli newspaper "Haaretz" quoted a Hamas official with the words: "It can't be that you can sing and rejoice while we suffer." The security arrangements ahead of the competition, the 14. to 18. May will be held in Tel Aviv, have been massively reinforced.

Militant Palestinians want to bring Israel's Premier Benjamin Netanyahu in a quandary. Because a massive military operation would jeopardize the hosting of the prestigious competition. A military expert was of the view that an expansion of the attacks on Tel Aviv is to be feared. Netanyahu is also in the midst of negotiations to form a new coalition with six parties. In addition, on 9. May The Independence Day. On the question of what to make Netanyahu now says Dikla Dayan in Ashqelon Attack:"." A new war? She nods.

(editing Tamedia)

Created: 05.05.2019, 22:57 PM