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Originally Posted by JP5";p="
March, 2006 Over 40 Qassam rockets fall on Sderot in March, this number increases in the next months. IDF responds with shelling of launching sites and IAF raids to kill leaders of Popular Resistance Committees, Islamic Jihad, Hamas and Fatah Al-Aqsa brigades involved in the attacks.
June, 2006 Israeli targeted killings in Gaza and West Bank continue, while Hamas fires about 90 Qassam rockets into Sderot and other Western Negev communities. Seven Palestinian civilians having a picnic at a Gaza beach are killed by an explosion attributed by Palestinians and HRW to an IDF shell. IDF denies that it was shelling the beach at the time, and points out that shrapnel recovered from the victims does not come from IDF shells.
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OK. I guess I didn't hear enough of that news to understand that the cease fire was not truly met. Apparently they were firing rockets before Israel's bombing of Lebanon. That somewhat changes my view on their offensive. Thanks for the info. Although I still don't like how it's going in Lebanon and I wish the US would not support the killing of innocents, it is not as unprovoked as I thought. It just got worse.