Hamas Launches Massive Rocket Barrage on Israel + Update
Hamas Launches Massive Rocket Barrage on Israeli Cities
Hamas claims missile shower on major Israeli cities; Home Front Command orders public bomb shelters opened.
By Ari Soffer and Netanel Katz
First Publish: 8/19/2014, 10:48 PM / Last Update: 8/19/2014, 11:27 PM
via Hamas Launches Massive Rocket Barrage on Israel – Defense/Security – News – Arutz Sheva.
Gaza terrorists kept up their rocket assault on Israel Tuesday night by firing a rocket barrage on the southern and Gush Dan central region several minutes before 11 p.m.
At least one rocket reportedly hit open ground in Tel Aviv; another five hit open land in Be’er Sheva. Another rocket was reportedly shot down over central Israel.
Sirens were sounded in the Gush Dan region, the Shfela coastal plain, Ashdod, Be’er Sheva and various areas near Gaza.
Sirens were heard shortly thereafter in the city of Beit Shemesh to the west of Jerusalem and and in parts of Judea, to the south of the capital.
Two rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome anti-missile system over Sderot. Two more rockets were intercepted over Be’er Sheva.
Hamas’s “military wing”, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, reportedly claimed the rocket barrage, saying it fired domestically-produced M-75 and Iranian-supplied Fajr 5 missiles at the Gush Dan region.
With the temporary ceasefire in tatters and set to splutter to a close just over an hour from now, the IDF Homefront Command has ordered all public bomb shelters to be reopened in communities located between 40-80 kilometers from Gaza.
The directives indicated fears that Hamas would once again begin launching long-range rockets at major Israeli population centers, including central Israel and the Jerusalem region – fears which just minutes later were proven to be well-founded. Areas effected by the order include all Negev communities, the Beit Shemesh area, the Shomron (Samaria), Judea, Gush Dan and central Israel, Jerusalem, the Jordan Vallet and the Sharon Region, among others.
The Homefront Command have also issued updated directives to communities closer to Gaza, who have already been under fire since terrorists breached the ceasefire earlier Tuesday. Until now, only short and medium-range rockets and mortar shells have been used, but that is likely to change once the truce officially ends at midnight.
In communities between 0-7 kilometers from Gaza, the army has banned gatherings of 300 people or more. In communities within 400 kilometers of Gaza, gatherings of 500 or more have been banned.
Update
After claiming responsibility for rockets fired at Tel Aviv and southern Israel, Hamas takes responsibility for rocket fire at Jerusalem.
At least one rocket was fired at the capital earlier this evening. Air raid sirens were heard over the city, followed by a loud thud indicating a successful interception.
Ynet reports that the rocket fired toward Jerusalem was an M-75 long-range rocket.
Thud heard over Jerusalem
After a siren sounds in Jerusalem and its environs, including in Beit Shemesh and the West Bank, a thud is heard over the capital, indicating that a rocket was shot down over the city.
Channel 2 reports that a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip was successfully intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system.
Code Red siren heard over Jerusalem
A Code Red siren sounds over Jerusalem after a rocket hits Tel Aviv.
No hits are reported.
IDF confirms Tel Aviv rocket hit
After Hamas claims responsibility for firing dozens of rockets at Israel, including at Tel Aviv, the IDF confirms a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit the central Israeli city.”
“A rocket hit an open area in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area,” a statement from the military reads.
The IDF also confirms a hit in the southern city of Beersheba.
— AFP contributed
Code Red sirens sound over southern Israel
Air raid sirens sound over southern Israel, signaling incoming rocket attacks.
The sirens sound in Beersheba, the Eshkol region and Sderot, as well as in areas near Jerusalem and in Beit Shemesh.
At least two rockets are shot down over Beersheba, and two others explode in open areas in Eshkol.
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WarSclerotic 
August 19, 2014 at 10:56 PM
Hey Neville Netanyahu what now you coward!!!!!!
“Hamas says it fired 40 rockets, claims responsibility for firing M-75 and Fajr-5 rockets at central Israel, J-80 missile at Ben Gurion Airport.”
Netanyahu fool, being jerked around by the baby brother of Hezbollah. If you cant handle the JV squad ……..
August 19, 2014 at 11:03 PM
Hell will break lose soon,mark my words !
August 20, 2014 at 1:25 AM
Yup, Joes been saying the same thing forever. Netanyahu’s being pushed around by evil punks and he’s afraid to do what’s right for his people. He needs to FUCK UP HAMAS, but he’s a pussy and not worthy. How can any self respecting leader allow his people to be under such threat as missile attack for so long? “Quiet
will be met with quiet.” The puppet master must be laughing his ass off over that one. Netanyahu needs to take enough power to get the job done once and for all. But he can’t, because he’s a pussy!!!!!!!
August 20, 2014 at 1:43 AM
August 20, 2014 at 1:54 AM
“If as Netanyahu said, Hamas has been vanquished, he should reach a diplomatic deal under the best terms possible for Israel,” Herzog said. “But if the government will surrender in order to bring about a fake quiet like we had until today, it would prove that it is a weak government that has failed.”
Thank you Neville Netanyahu PUSSY!!!!!!’mmm
August 20, 2014 at 2:00 AM
What the fucking pussies Netanyahu and Ya’alon wrought. Kick the pussies out put in MEN who can do what must be done!
AMAN chief Maj.Gen. Aviv Kochavi is believed by some cabinet sources to be the author of this prescription, to which the prime minister and defense minister have stubbornly adhered, against all the evidence to the contrary. They therefore held back from inflicting a final defeat on the Palestinian fundamentalists.
Even the pro-diplomacy Justice Minister Tzipi Livni faulted them by warning repeatedly that negotiating with terrorists was a bad mistake. You have to fight them and beat them hollow, she said.
Yet each time Hamas violated a ceasefire – and it happened six times in all – there was the excuse that its leaders were divided against themselves, and the heads of the Gaza faction were reasonable and logical individuals who would prefer to stop firing rockets at the Israeli population – if only it was only up to them.
Even when the rockets started falling Tuesday around Beersheba, Netivot, Ashkelon, Shear Hanegev and the Eshkol district, some knowledgeable Israelis were still saying that Hamas knew nothing about it.
However, Netanyahu and Ya’alon are not about to change course, athough it is obvious even to them that they have led the country into the blind alley of a war of attrition. They seem to be operating on a different level from Hamas – and even from the general Israeli population, which is sick and tired of the uncertainty and on the verge of kicking back at its leaders.
Last Saturday, 30,000 demonstrators from southern Israel and their many sympathizers turned out in Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, to make sure the government understood that their tolerance for the same old routine was at an end and the military must be allowed to root out the Hamas peril once and for all.
A sense of defiance is palpable in the streets of towns within regular rocket range from the Gaza Strip and even farther afield. Contrary to orders from the IDF Home Command, directions to open shelters have been issued by the mayors of Ashkelon, Ashdod, Rehovot, Rishon Lezion, Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Gedera, Kiryat Malachi, Sderot, Netivot and Beersheba. Some have cancelled public events and entertaiments.
Parents of places next door to the Gaza Strip, who spent the summer holidays holed up indoors or away from home, now say they will not send their children to school at the start of the term in two weeks, if the present situation does not change radically.
August 20, 2014 at 2:10 AM
Action off a pussy curled up in the fetal position.
“Despite the heavy barrages that hit southern and central Israel on Tuesday night, and the collapse of ceasefire negotiations, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has yet to convene his Security Cabinet.
Cabinet ministers criticized the prime minister, saying “he’s not convening the cabinet because he doesn’t want to bring the decision on decisive action to a vote. He’s putting up a tough front, but hopes something happens and an agreement with Hamas is reached quickly.”
Pussy, pussy, pussy, pussy
August 20, 2014 at 1:01 PM
What the coward Netanyahu has wrought!
“In South, parents fear for kids in schools without shelters
Schools further away from the Gaza border, but still in the line of fire, has shelters suitable for only a handful of students – if at all.”
August 19, 2014 at 11:30 PM
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August 20, 2014 at 12:18 AM
In The Air Tonight
August 20, 2014 at 12:41 AM
I,am getting tired , i have to retreat to my space.
Perhaps you will have a glimpse to.
August 20, 2014 at 1:06 AM
Born out a Jewish father and a woman with a hart what had to be Jewish, see would give there underwear away at people who needed it .
Perhaps you will understand this song and voice and the emotions in this song in France .
From an Armenian with a unbelievable sad history
August 20, 2014 at 1:19 AM
A Soul Yearns
August 20, 2014 at 4:50 AM
The barbaric terrorists of Hamas are asking for their own annihilation – soon they will get it ! Am Israel Chai !