Palestinian Rockets Hit Israel, Breaking Hamas Truce

Palestinian Arabs doing what they do best. From Palestinian Rockets Hit Israel, Breaking Hamas Truce:

Three Kassam rockets fired from Gaza on Tuesday struck the Israeli town of Sderot and its environs, constituting the first serious breach of a truce between Israel and Hamas, the Islamic group that controls Gaza. Mark Regev, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, said the rocket fire from Gaza had been "a grave violation of the calm" that came into effect last Thursday. Islamic Jihad, a small extremist group, claimed responsibility for the attack. Previous cease-fire understandings in Gaza have fallen apart over the inability of Palestinian leaders to contain the smaller groups.

Video: Turning Shavuot night into a Solidarity Event with Sderot

With the holiday of Shavuot approaching, and people preparing to stay up to learn Torah on Shavuot evening, 12Tribe Films Foundation (http://www.12tribefilms.org/) and the Sderot Hesder Yeshiva (http://www.sderot.org/) are introducing the "Shavuot Mishnathon" - where people can learn Torah to support the people of Sderot.

This year young and old, schools and communities can all join together and pledge to learn a number of mishnayot on Shavuot night while seeking sponsorships from family and friends. The Shavout Mishnathon allows all to learn together and help an institution that is helping the people of Sderot. All proceeds go directly to the Sderot Hesder Yeshiva.

See the video on the Yeshiva here - http://12tribefilms.org/mishnathonforsderot

The situation in Sderot remains unsettling with rockets falling on the community on a daily basis. Despite the situation, the Sderot Hesder Yeshiva has continued to flourish with over 500 students and has become a pillar in the community, reaching out to those in need, from all walks of life, during these difficult times.

Now the Yeshiva is embarking on a major campaign to construct new "kassam proof" dormitories on campus. These units are in immediate need, as the students were forced off campus and into temporary housing since their dormitories were deemed unsafe from rocket attacks.

The Shavuot Mishnathon allows all to learn together and help an institution that is helping the people of Sderot.

Students or community members can all take part in the Shavuot Mishnathon.

All individuals or institutions interested in joining should send an email to avi@12tribefilms.org to request the Mishnathon program packet with all the materials needed to run and take part in the Mishnathon.

This year Jews worldwide can all connect on the Shavuot holiday by learning Torah and supporting our fellow Jews in Sderot.

All questions or inquiries can be sent to avi@12tribefilms.org

Avi Abelow
Founder and CEO
12Tribe Films Foundation
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12Tribe Films Foundation is a program provider specializing in movies and cultural events that show a side of the Jewish and Israeli narrative that receives little attention in the public discourse today. Our aim is to provide programs that allow people to develop a more comprehensive understanding of the Jewish people and the Land of Israel today.

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Stop Supplying Gasoline to Hamas!

The residents of Sderot, represented by Attorney Nitsana Darshan- Leitner, director of Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center (http://www.israellawcenter.org), have dispatched a series of letters to Israeli government, parliamentary, military and legal officials calling upon Israel to stop supplying petroleum to the Hamas-led Gaza Strip. The residents allege in their letters that Hamas siphons off more than half of the gasoline supplied from Israel for use in terror related activities including the daily Kassam rocket attacks, the incessant shootings at the farmers in the field, as well as the murderous attack last week on the Nachal Oz gasoline depot in which two Israeli petrol workers supplying the Gaza line were killed.

"Our lives are being physically threatened daily," said Mrs. Nechi Fendel, a mother of seven who moved to Sderot from Staten Island 15 years ago and works as a computer programmer in Nachal Oz. "For eight years now we are living with non-stop rocket attacks, day in and day out. The Hamas fires endlessly at our farmers in the field, at our schools and at our homes and rather than respond and protect us, our government continues to supply the terrorists with the very gas they need to make more missiles and launch them to try and kill our kids – it's a black comedy of the absurd!"

The Sderot residents allege that Hamas is siphoning off thousands of liters of Israeli supplied gasoline on the Gaza side of the Nachal Oz depot in order to create an artificial humanitarian crisis and bring world public opinion down on Israel. Israel, on its part, claims that it continues to supply the gasoline to Gaza so it can be used for humanitarian purposes such as hospitals, schools and a variety of critical and emergency services.

"Hamas can get petroleum from Egypt via Rafah or from other sources," said Attorney Nitsana Darshan-Leitner in sending the letters. "It makes no sense for Israel to continue to supply her enemies with fuel. In 2005 Israel "disengaged" from Gaza, with Israeli Jews paying a tremendous price in social and personal suffering as a result, so why are we continuing this charade? Either we are disengaged or not!"

If the residents demand to shut down the Nachal Oz depot and stop the supply of gasoline to Hamas is not adhered to, Shurat HaDin, on behalf of the Sderot families, will be filing a petition in Israel's high court of justice requesting that the court compel the government to cease and desist the supply of fuel to Hamas. "The
supply of fuel to Hamas in Gaza is as close to aiding and abetting the enemy as one can ever come. We supply them with gasoline, Iran supplies them with training, Syria supplies them with political cover – it's a perfect recipe for continued disaster. How can we complain about Iran and Syria with a straight face if we are aiding
Hamas in the same manner " concluded Darshan-Leitner.

Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center (http://www.israellawcenter.org) is a Jewish human rights institute based in Israel and staffed by some of the country's leading activist attorneys. Shurat HaDin is dedicated to providing legal representation and resources for the numerous courtroom struggles, which are being waged in the Israeli, American and European courts on behalf of the Jewish State and serves as a central clearinghouse and litigation base for the multifarious legal battles that have been thrust upon Israel's citizens during recent years.

SaveIsraelsChildren.com

by Daniel Pipes
Weblog
April 3, 2008
http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/836

The effort is the first time since World War II – when the Germans bombed London, and London children were sent off to families in the countryside to be cared for until the German assault ended – that a "people-to-people" campaign has been organized to remove children from a war zone. Sadly, indeed embarrassingly, the children are those of S'derot, an Israeli town of 19,000 near the border with Gaza that has been under a missile barrage since the Israeli retreat from Gaza in September 2005, with thousands of missiles to date. These have been causing damage to property and injuries and death to residents.

The national government of Israel has basically averted its collective eyes from this tragedy, leaving the citizens of S'derot and potentially other towns to fend basically for themselves.

Into the breach now has come http://www.saveisraelschildren.com/, a Brooklyn-based non-profit that matchmakes between "families wanting to send their children abroad, and families who are willing to provide a temporary ‘home' for these children."

Comment: The need for such a private initiative points to the moral and operational bankruptcy of the Olmert government in Israel. (April 3, 2008)

The NY Times continues to sink in its own sludge

Sderot has been hit by what is now 7,000 Qassam rockets fired from neighboring Muslim Gaza. The NY Times owns a classical music radio station, WQXR, and the station's manager turned down an advertisement that is part of the series that the American Jewish Committee has been airing on hundreds of stations around the country. The ad the Times turned down was about the rain of rockets that has been directed at the civilian population of Sderot. The Times’s radio station manager, Tom Bartunek, wrote to the American Jewish Committee that the ad might be “misleading, at least to the degree that reasonable people might be troubled by the absence of any acknowledgement of reciprocal Israeli military actions.”

In other words, according to the NY Times Israel-loathing logic, the only way to broadcast the plight of Sderot’s residents is to equate Israel’s right of self-defense with Hamas’s and Islamic Jihad’s murderous intent to destroy Israel so that it no longer exists.

Once again we have proof that the NY Times continues to remain deficient in its ability to restore truth to the Middle East narrative.

Click here to read the complete article from the NY Sun.

Sderot: 2 wounded in Qassam barrage

Muslims are relentless killers, mostly because Islam, at its core, is lethally militaristic and institutionalizes homicide. Yet again, two Jews were lightly wounded and nine others suffered from shock after Muslim terror groups in northern Gaza launched a barrage of eight Qassam rockets towards Israel late Wednesday evening. Two of the rockets landed in the town of Sderot, causing structural damage near the town's commercial center. Security forces have yet to confirm where the remaining rockets crashed. The military wings of the Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committee's - the al-Quds Brigades and the Salah a-Din Brigades - claimed responsibility for the Qassam barrages.

Israel's War to Halt Palestinian Rocket Attacks

From Israel's War to Halt Palestinian Rocket Attacks:

The Kassam rocket threat started in 2001 and grew when the Palestinian Authority was under Fatah control. Even after the death of Arafat in November 2004, Kassam rocket fire from Gaza continued under the regime of Mahmoud Abbas. True, Abbas called on Palestinians to stop firing rockets into Israel in 2006, but on the ground, he and the Fatah leadership were either unwilling or unable to halt the Hamas attacks as they increased.

After Israel's disengagement from Gaza, the number of confirmed rocket strikes against Israel increased by more than 500 percent. The 2005 Gaza disengagement provided Hamas with a sense of empowerment and self-confidence that led to a clear-cut escalation in the employment of the rocket capabilities that they had previously acquired. The disengagement from Gaza led to the loss of Israeli control over the Philadelphi route between the Gaza Strip and Egyptian Sinai, allowing for a significant increase in the range and quantity of rockets in the Palestinian arsenal.

Israeli security forces recently discovered in the western Negev the remains of a new 175 mm. rocket of Iranian origin that has a range of 26 kilometers. Israeli security sources are also concerned that Iran will try to smuggle its Fajr rockets to Gaza in the future. A 45-kilometer-range Fajr 3, for example, could be smuggled in sections and assembled in Gaza. As long as the Philadelphi route is open for Hamas smuggling, the risk to Israel will grow as Iran exports rockets of increasing range to the Gaza Strip. The port of Ashdod is the next likely target, but should Fajr rockets reach Gaza, there is no reason why Hamas cannot pose a threat to Tel Aviv.

Presently, the Hamas leadership understands that repeated Katyusha attacks against Ashkelon will result in an Israeli ground incursion that can cost them nearly one hundred of their personnel. But without addressing the Philadelphi route or the northern Gaza launch sites, it is doubtful that these kinds of deterrence calculations alone will bring the Hamas rockets to a halt and alleviate the misery of the Israeli residents of Sderot.

Palestinian Rocket Hits House in Sderot Tuesday

The barbarians continue their Muslim legacy of godless cruelty and violence. From Palestinian Rocket Hits House in Sderot Tuesday:

Palestinians in Gaza fired a Kassam rocket that hit a house in Sderot on Tuesday morning, causing heavy damage. On Monday, Ashkelon was hit by two Katyusha rockets. One hit a seven story-building and the second landed in a playground. Twenty-eight people were evacuated to the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon, two lightly injured and the rest suffering from shock. The military censor cleared for publication that earlier this week a Katyusha rocket landed near the home of Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter.

If They Fire on Us, We Have to Fight Back Without Hesitation

Fighting words from one of Israel's worst advocates, Shimon Peres, who was one of the early architects of the plan to evacuate Yeshua and the Golan Heights through the Oslo Plan. From If They Fire on Us, We Have to Fight Back Without Hesitation:

"Three things must be done in view of the situation in Sderot and Gaza. The first, there must be complete solidarity among the society in Israel. All the people must be united with and must strengthen the citizens of Sderot - not only Tel Aviv but all the cities in Israel must identify with Sderot. When the leg of the small boy, Osher Tawito, was amputated, it was as if the leg of an entire generation was amputated. Everyone must be part of the pain of the family and the suffering of the inhabitants of Sderot."

"The second thing that needs to be done - If they fire on us, we must fight back without hesitation and without compromise. The people of Israel are a people which defends itself and does not want war. We do not want to harm innocent citizens, but we will not permit our enemies to harm our citizens."

Third, "worldwide public opinion must be recruited - both in the political and diplomatic track and in widespread international information, as despicable crimes are being perpetrated against Sderot, crimes which are against international law. The moment the firing of missiles on Israel stops - quiet will reign in Gaza. The world must understand this. The head of the Hamas in Gaza must know that those who are harmed, eventually, will be those who break the law itself."

State won't relieve mortgage of Sderot's 'house hostages'

Another repugnant act decree from the Israeli government. From State won't relieve mortgage of Sderot's 'house hostages':

The Cuzin family is one of a few hundred families who want to leave Sderot but cannot because they are "house hostages," as lawyer Yuval Albashan, the deputy director-general of the Association for Community Empowerment (ACE), puts it. The state refuses to help families leave Sderot in an effort not to project an image of defeat, effectively holding them hostage, Albashan said.

Cuzin pays a mortgage of NIS 2,500 a month for an apartment with a garden that she bought a decade ago. Her eldest son left for Ashkelon, her husband works in Holon. She worked for a solar panel company that shut down because of low demand, and the tiles on the walls of her office were torn down by the impact of a Qassam rocket. "I love my home, I fixed up the garden nicely, but I'm constantly scared," she said.

No one will rent or buy the place. Even if she were to sell, she said, the money she would receive in return would not allow her buy an apartment anywhere else. Nor can she pay the mortgage while also renting an apartment in central Israel. "I don't see a solution. I can't help my children, or myself," Cuzin said.

Those with mortgages are not the only ones unable to leave. Thousands of people who live in public housing are also in the same predicament. Dozens have asked the Housing Ministry to leave, many of whom are senior citizens. But the security situation is not considered a valid argument to receive alternative accommodation.

See, what Israel should do is arrange for the temporary evacuation of all Jews from Sderot, and when that has b een completed, daisy-cut all the rocket launching sites and ammunition tunnels of the Muslim aggressors. Then, as soon as the threat is eradicated and the stench of burning flesh is out of the air, move the Jews back into their homes. Problem solved. That's the way to do it: evacuate, incinerate, allocate.

Video: Israelis Under Siege in Sderot

You try to be never more than 15 seconds away from the nearest shelter.

Video: Israelis Under Siege in Sderot

Another Day, Another Palestinian Bombardment of Israel

Where's the international outrage? Where're those two pimps for palestinians, Charles Enderlin and France 2's News Director, Arlette Chabot? Aren't Jewish lives worth saving, you effing pimp bastards? From Another Day, Another Palestinian Bombardment of Israel:

The small Israeli town of Sderot is enveloping itself in a blanket of concrete. Schools and nurseries crouch below hulking canopies, dozens of bomb-shelters dot the urban landscape and even the bulletproof windows of one school have been provided with thick overhanging slabs. The town's open-air bus stops are being replaced with concrete cubicles. The profusion of concrete is a determined, but ultimately futile, attempt to shield Sderot's 20,000 citizens from the Kassam rockets that are fired into the town every day by Palestinian militants from Gaza.

"It's like Russian roulette. If it's your day you are finished," says Tiger Avraham, the head of the local paramedic team. "Children don't go outside and you cannot walk far from home. It's hard to live like this."

Israel's military planners are tormented by the thought of a rocket blowing up a Sderot school bus or inflicting a large number of civilian deaths through a direct hit.

Collaborators Face Death in Town Where They Hoped to Find Safety

Running from their own shadow. From Collaborators Face Death in Town Where They Hoped to Find Safety:

More than a dozen Palestinian collaborators with Israel who fled Gaza with their families have since settled in Sderot, where they are forced to dodge rockets fired at Sderot from Gaza. In some cases their relatives are tied to the very militant groups behind recent rocket attacks on the town.

Video: How Can We Help the Terrorized People of Sderot?

The Jewish Agency for Israel is once again providing crisis assistance for beleaguered Israelis. With its dedicated professionals in the field, and its capacity to garner resources and to immediately launch and operate emergency programs, the Jewish Agency for Israel is bringing much-needed relief to the region.

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The Jewish Agency moved 1,640 children from Sderot and the Gaza perimeter out of the range of fire for a day without missiles. With your help we can give the children many days of fun filled summer camp adventures out of Kassam range.

Easy way to help Sderot: Challa for Shabbat

received by email from Lynn B.:

Standing Together is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting Israeli soldiers on active duty. Being totally funded by donations from Jews throughout the world, Standing Together acts as a bridge between Israel and other Jewish communities, creating a feeling of unity and support.

Standing Together 's activities over the last three years have brought much happiness to thousands of Israeli soldiers, who never imagined that a Jew overseas was concerned for their welfare. Now is the time for you to join us and become a part of the Standing Together family, so that we can truly Stand Together.

Standing Together's latest project is a campaign urging people in Israel to buy challah from Sderot bakeries, which are in danger of going out of business. See details below and at their website. http://www.stogether.org/ You can email them at info@stogether.org for more information.

Last week a campaign was started to buy challa from Sderot bakeries. They got over 1600 orders.

This is the deal:

- Two challot plus half kilo cookies: NS 25
- Two challot plus half kilo rogelach: NS 25

- Two challot (70% whole wheat) plus half kilo cookies: NS 26
- Two challot (70% whole wheat) plus half kilo rogelach: NS 26

Last week's challot were much bigger than the standard size.
Kashrut: Mehadrin

Orders and payment: You have to give me the order and payment by Thurs afternoon.
Pick-up: From my place on Friday afternoon -- Tchernichovsky 4 on the corner of Herzog.

Exact time of pick-up to follow.

The organisation doing this has a web site: http://www.stogether.org/. In the next few days they hope to have an on-line order form.

PS This same organisation is teaming up with Yad Eliezer, an organisation that delivers food packages to the needy. They will give donations to YadEliezer and Yad Eliezer will then send a truck to Sderot and buy the foodfrom a makolet in Sderot. By donating in this way you are helping both Yad Eleizer and a Sderot makolet. Suggested donation NS 25 but obviously any amount is fine.

"Sderot Legal Aid Society" Formed

Regional News Service of Sderot and the Western Negev
12 Rakefet Street
Sderot, Israel
mailto:IsraelSderotMedia@aol.com
tel. 03 636 4017

Residents of Sderot and the Western Negev have formed a Sderot Legal Aid Society to hire a law firm to sue the government of Israel on behalf of their civil liberties and human rights.

This past week, the Sderot Parents Association successfully concluded six months of litigation in the Israeli High Court of Justice to force the government of Israel to protect all classrooms in Sderot, after the Israeli government would only provide protection for grades one, two and three.

The claim of the government was that children over the age of eight could run for cover during a missile attack.

The Sderot Parents Association hired a major law firm to prove otherwise.

As a result, the Israel High Court of Justice has issued a court order to the Israeli government to immediately protect all classrooms in Sderot

People in Sderot have now formed "The Sderot Legal Aid Society" to hire lawyers to sue the government of Israel over issues of civil liberties abuse, such as:

* Preparation of Shelters.

Why has the government not repaired 25 large public shelters in Sderot that have been rendered unfit for human habitation? The same unanswered question goes for many public shelters in the Kibbutzim of the Western Negev. Families in Sderot and the Western Negev will sue to demand that the Israeli government spend government funds to repair all shelters in Sderot and the Western Negev, and not wait for charities to allocate funds for this purpose. In Israel, shelter preparation remains an absolute matter of basic civil liberties and human
rights.

*Protected Rooms in public housing.

Why has the government delayed construction of protected rooms in public housing in Sderot and the Western Negev? These rooms provide immediate cover during a missile attack. A Member of Knesset, Shai Hermesh from PM Olmert's own Kadima party, a resident of the Western Negev, recently revealed that $75 million was allocated by the government for this purpose last January and never delivered. Now the government has issued press releases that it will install protected rooms at a rate of 200 homes a month out of the 2000 that need to be installed in Sderot. Residents of Sderot and the Western Negev must sue the government to install all of the protected rooms, immediately.

*Repair of Homes and Businesses.

By law, The Israel Tax Authority is supposed to expedite immediate aid to families whose homes and businesses have been damaged by hostile fire. However, the Regional News Service of Sderot and the Western Negev has revealed that it takes months for the Israel Tax Authority to do so, forcing people to live and work in their debris, instead of providing immediate repairs.

The claim of the Israel Tax Authority is that people can make repairs out of their own pocket and bring them the receipts.

However, working class people and small business owners do not have cash flow to pay for such repairs.

Banks are not willing to lend funds for such a purpose, even if the government will eventually pay for the repairs.

Families in Sderot and the Western Negev must therefore sue the Israel Tax Authority to act immediately to assess and repair damages in homes.

*Aid to victims.

A boy with cerebral palsy died last week of wounds sustained from the direct hit of a Gaza missile. The family is being denied aid under the Terror Victims Law, because they did not immediately fill out appropriate forms with the government at the time of the fatal attack. The family was at the child's hospital bed, as he was dying. The family must therefore sue the government for the aid that they have coming to them.

*Right to IDF Protection.

The Sderot Legal Aid Society will hire legal experts to examine the rights of residents of Sderot and the Western Negev to demand stronger military action to protect them.

Arabs continue to fire missiles from the roof tops of apartment buildings in Beit Hanoun, while the IDF continues to avoid firing at those missile launch sites on the roof tops, for fear of Arab civilian casualties.

The legal question remains: Can people of Sderot and the Western Negev sue the government to demand that the IDF remove those missile launchers, no matter what the cost in Arab civilian casualties.

*How people can help

Checks can be made out to the SDEROT LEGAL AID SOCIETY, POB 472, Sderot, Israel

Bank transfers can be sent to:

Union Bank of Israel, Ltd
Main Branch Jerusalem
Swift Code: Unbkilit 13-051
Acct. Number: 28142/45
Attn: Lawyer Trust Account of Jacob P. Golbert

Palestinian Rockets Hit Sderot

Palestinians doing the only thing they know how to do - kill and maim Jews. From Palestinian Rockets Hit Sderot:

Palestinians in Gaza fired a Kassam rocket that hit a high-voltage electricity pole, then landed on a house in Sderot Wednesday evening. The residents were inside a protected room and remained unharmed, but the electricity supply in some parts of the city was disrupted. Earlier, a Palestinian rocket hit the fourth floor of a Sderot building, damaging several apartments.

Sderot Is Us

From Sderot Is Us:

Every night, Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal tours his city, checking the number of houses with lights on. At its height, Sderot had a population of 24,000, but now, with the refugees whom Hamas chased out being scattered throughout the country, no more than 10,000 people remain in the city. Sderot is the litmus test that will teach us what we can expect in the future. The struggle for Sderot should be viewed as a struggle for Israeli sovereignty. Sderot is all of us. We rise and fall with Sderot.

Dodging Palestinian Rocket Fire in Sderot

From Dodging Palestinian Rocket Fire in Sderot:

The trick is to know, at all times, where you are relative to Gaza, where the rockets come from, says Sderot Fire Chief David Sheetrit. If you're facing north, Gaza is on your left, and you need to hug the eastern side of a building, to keep the structure between you and the rockets. If you get this calculation wrong, you are exposing yourself to a direct hit. Sderot is turning into a city that never sleeps. Fear is everywhere. When you're driving and the siren sounds, get out of the vehicle and run to the nearest shelter or wall. If there is no building, lie down on the road and cover your head. Just don't stay in your car. The main reason is that rocket shrapnel - and every Kassam rocket has ball bearings or bolts in its warhead - can tear through your gas tank and blow up your car. Remember to always have your window slightly open, so that you can hear the Color Red alert and the Kassam shriek.

Palistinians doing what they do best: Kassam rocket hits Sderot synagogue after Olmert visit

From Kassam Hits Sderot Synagogue after Olmert Visit:

At least three rockets landed in the southern town of Sderot at around midnight Thursday, one of them hitting a synagogue just minutes after the end of a celebration. A number of people suffered from shock and the building was damaged. The incident took place shortly after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert visited Sderot and heard the Color Red alert system being activated.

From Barrage Continues: 9 Rockets Hit West Negev:

Residents of Sderot and the west Negev woke up to another day of Palestinian rocket attacks Friday. A rocket hit a Sderot gas station, lightly wounding one person. Two more people suffered shock. A second rocket hit a house in the town and caused structural damages.