Hamas Rockets Keep Raining Down -Patrick MartinThirteen days of bombardment, six days of an Israeli ground assault, and Hamas [is] still firing rockets out of Gaza. There are fewer of them to be sure, but they're still coming and Israelis still are running for cover.
"They had a lot of rockets hidden away," says Mark Heller, of the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University. "And the IDF still hasn't gone into the heavily populated areas where they hid them."
Israeli forces haven't [yet] reached the inland missiles.
(Globe and Mail-Canada)
450 Palestinian Rockets Fired During Gaza Operation -Efrat Weiss
450 rockets have been fired at Israel since the Israel Defense Forces launched its operation in Gaza on Dec. 27.
Israeli defense officials say the[ir] operation [has] undermined Hamas' status in public opinion. The fact that the commanders and leaders went into hiding, and that the group members hid in tunnels, caused the population to feel abandoned.
(Ynet News)
Palestinian Grad Rocket Hits Ashkelon School -Shmulik Hadad
Palestinians in Gaza fired a Grad rocket that hit a school in Ashkelon. The school, which sustained damage, was empty at the time of the attack.
Itay, 13, was playing soccer with his friends near the school when the rocket landed. "We were at the yard when we heard the siren. We looked for a place to hide and couldn't find one so we just lay on the ground and heard a strong whistle and then an explosion right next to us."
(Ynet News)
Cease-Fire in Gaza? -Amos Harel & Avi Issacharoff
[S]enior Hamas officials are stuck in bunkers under the hospitals. The resistance is based on hit-and-run tactics: fighting that is not very organized. The rocket launch teams are taking care to operate under cover of mosques or densely populated neighborhoods.
(Ha'aretz)
Yes, Israel Can Win in Gaza -Edward N. Luttwak
Most of the West's news reporters and pundits agree with Islamists everywhere that an Israeli victory in Gaza is impossible. And they echo Hizbullah's claim that it won a great victory in Lebanon in 2006. In fact, Hizbullah was thoroughly shocked by the Israeli bombing campaign, and its supporters, who mostly live in southern Lebanon, are not likely to tolerate another wave of destruction caused by another Hizbullah attack. When three rockets were fired at Israel from inside Lebanon on Thursday, Hizbullah wasted no time assuring the Israelis that it had nothing to do with it, and that it did not even have that type of rocket in their inventory.
Israel has conducted an extremely accurate bombing campaign. So how did Israel do it? The only possible explanation is that people in Gaza have been informing the Israelis exactly where Hamas fighters and leaders are hiding, and where weapons are stored.
(Wall Street Journal)
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