Massive rocket barrage targets south; sirens sound near Tel Aviv + Updates
Massive rocket barrage targets south; sirens sound near Tel Aviv
Palestinians, Cairo said waiting on Jerusalem response to month-long truce offer; over 80 rockets shot at Israel Monday;
Family of slain 4-year-old says they won’t return to Gaza-area kibbutz
By Itamar Sharon, Marissa Newman and Ilan Ben Zion August 25, 2014, 12:34 am Updated: August 25, 2014, 1:29 pm
via Massive rocket barrage targets south; sirens sound near Tel Aviv | The Times of Israel.
Second IDF ground invasion ‘valueless,’ Palestinian groups say
Israel wouldn’t dare launch another ground invasion of the Gaza Strip because Palestinian fighters “rubbed the nose of their so-called elite brigades in the dirt in Gaza,” the Palestinian Ma’an news agency quotes the Popular Resistance Committees saying on Monday.
Another group, the al-Mujahidin Brigades, call Israel’s vow to “renew the ground battle in Gaza as valueless.”
Hamas claims rocket fired at Tel Aviv; all Palestinian groups want truce
Hamas claims responsibility for firing an M-75 rocket at the Greater Tel Aviv area just before 8 p.m. The rocket was intercepted by the Iron Dome missile-defense system.
Meanwhile, Israeli and Palestinian delegates are reportedly working toward a new truce deal; Channel 2′s Ehud Ya’ari quotes an Islamic Jihad official in Cairo saying all Palestinian factions want a ceasefire.
Israel is also coordinating with the United States about a possible Security Council resolution to bring a halt to the fighting in the Gaza Strip, Channel 2 reports.
Plane landing at Ben-Gurion loops back as sirens wail
A plane landing at Ben-Gurion International pulls off its descent as sirens sound in the towns surrounding the airport. The El Al flight from Rhodes to Tel Aviv turned north and looped back over the Mediterranean.
One rocket was intercepted over the greater Tel Aviv area shortly thereafter.
Sirens in area near Ben Gurion airport
Two rockets hit Sdot Negev region
Two rockets fired from Gaza exploded in open areas near the border in the Sdot Negev region. No injuries or damage are reported.
More sirens in Nahal Oz
Rocket sirens ring in Nahal Oz and Alumim near the Gaza border. The area has been pummeled with over a dozen rockets in the last hour.
WarSclerotic 
August 25, 2014 at 7:29 PM
How many more days of this can Bibi and Yaalon survive with their failed policies?!?!?
Gaza needs to be retaken in full – now!!!
August 25, 2014 at 7:37 PM
Poll shows massive drop in Netanyahu ratings
A series of public opinion polls broadcast Monday find a massive drop in support for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The surveys, conducted by Shiluv Millward Brown and published on Channel 2, show that in the past month Netanyahu’s approval rating has dropped from 82 percent to 38% in the past month, and by 17% in the past four days alone.
The size of the surveyed population, or the questions asked were not detailed in the Channel 2 segment, and the statistics were not immediately available on Shiluv Millward Brown’s website.
Concerning the impending beginning of the school year, 63% of those polled voiced opposition to the opening of schools in southern Israel. Sixty-eight percent also say the government’s treatment of the south has been unsatisfactory.
August 26, 2014 at 12:55 AM
The present coalition who’s agenda has been choking of funds to Torah institutions and forced drafting of Yeshiva students is doomed to failure. The sooner they are disbanded…the better.
August 26, 2014 at 1:01 AM
Oh btw an American Yeshiva student has gone missing since Friday, last seen on a walk in the Jerusalem forest. Heavy suspicion of foul play/kidnapping. Extensive searches since Saturday reveal no clues. Msm coverage….nil!!!