Really Heating Up
Rockets were fired on Eilat and Aqaba this morning, too.
"Firing rockets from Egypt requires extensive logistical preparations and a lot of equipment. This is impossible because Sinai is heavily secured," one official said.
Mmmm, yes. One of the Katyusha rockets landed right in front of the Intercontinental Hotel in Aqaba. But as we're always told, no need to worry about these rockets, their targeting system is so primitive, just look--they managed to totally miss the hotel; they only seriously injured five people! Nothing to see here, folks. (Unless you happened to be one of those people.)
In related news, an unnamed IDF official apparently doesn't believe Hamas fired the Iranian Grad that landed in Ashkelon two days ago. (And by the way, where do Katyushas come from, class? Show of hands?)
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Claire, they may well not have fired the Grad at Ashkelon -- there's talk that it was Islamic Jihad -- but Hamas controls the Jihad as well as the other extremist groups in the Strip. They keep them under control until it becomes expedient not to. The Arab League's granting of an imprimatur to Abbas to go directly to the Israelis -- which, by the way, surprised Abbas as much as it surprised anybody else -- meant to Hamas that they had to turn the anti-Israel violence up a notch to stay in the game, but they can't be seen to be directly responsible for all of it. There are quiet times when Hamas comes down strongly on Jihad and the rest, making it impossible for them to shoot anything off at us. And there are times, like now, when Hamas looks the other way. Saying Jihad and not Hamas shot off the rocket is splitting hairs. Hamas runs the Gaza Strip.
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Breaking: a Jordanian man just died of injuries sustained during the rocket attack. I'll let you know when I've got more details.
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How easy is it, really, to fire rockets from the Sinai? I have to imagine--since it does indeed look as if they were fired from the Sinai!--that things are not quite as locked down as this official thinks.