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Monday, August 25, 2014

IDF Operation Protective Edge - August 25, 2014


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11:26pm The IDF has not given any directives regarding the security situation in Northern Israel. 

The Kiryat Shmonah municipality has taken the initiative and requested that all residents stay in protected areas, and that all public bomb shelters be opened.
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11:20pm Update: 2 confirmed Katyusha rockets were fired earlier from Lebanon. IDF originally thought only 1 was fired. This may be the source of the reports that the siren didn't go off for second rocket.

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11:09pm IDF retaliates with heavy artillery fire, following rockets fried from Lebanon into Israel. 

Northern residents may have confused IDF shelling with incoming rockets (as there have been additional reports of loud explosions throughout northern Israel, and they may have thought it was an additional attack, without warning sirens)
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10:45pm I wish there was a way to write this in Jackie Mason voice...

OK, just pretend you hear Jackie Mason tawking, 

"Oy... I say tank God for de Republican gentiles. You know, if de evangelicals didn't fight for de Jews, da Jews would never know they have a right to defend temselves..."

http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/thank-god-for-the-republican-gentiles/2014/08/25/

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10:37pm Jerusalem Light Rail attacked 1, no 2 times, update 3 time, update again: 4 times today...

Who was the genius that decided the track HAD to go through Shuafat? I bet he was also surprised when Hamas took over Gaza.

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/light-rail-attacked-in-jerusalem-3-times-on-monday/2014/08/25/
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10:21pm Just what we needed....rocket alert sirens in the Northern Golan....Kiryat Shmona...Metulla...Upper Galilee. ..
10:16pm Rocket Alerts all along northern borders
9:02 pm And another rocket alert for Ashdod
9:01pm ongoing barrage to Ashdod and Beer Tuvia
9:00 Barrage of rocket alerts Ashdod
8:29pm Rocket alert Shaar HaNegev
8:28 pm Rocket alert Shaar HaNegev
8:08pm Eshkol region alerts
7:59pm 5 Southern Kibbutz barns hit yesterday by Hamas rockets. Dozens of cows killed. Where is PETA??
7:56pm Rocket Alert Kerem Shalom
7:53pm Multiple rocket alerts in Gush Dan and Shfela areas...Shoham...Hevel Modiin...
7:23pm rocket alert Shaar Hanegev
7:14pm rocket alert Shaar Hanegev 6:26 pm Multiple rocket alerts Shaar HaNegev
6:07 pm More rockets Shaar HaNegev x 2
6:06 pm Another rocket Shaar HaNegev
6:04-05 pm Barrage Shaar HaNegev, Hof Ashkelon, Netivot, Sdot Negev
6:04 pm Yet another two rocket alerts Shaar HaNegev
6:03 pm Another rocket alert Shaar HaNegev x 2
6:02 pm Rocket alert Shaar HaNegev x 2
5:56 pm Rocket alerts Sdot Negev, Netivot
5:46 pm Rocket alert Sderot and surrounding areas
5:31 pm Rocket alerts Ashdod and Nitzanim
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5:20pm This is just too sad: Killed by Hamas rocket -- Daniel Targerman's (age 4) letter to a wounded IDF soldier.

Slain Israeli Child’s Letter to Wounded IDF Soldier: ‘Hero, Thanks for Protecting Me’ (VIDEO) 









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5:03 pm Rocket alert Sderot and surrounding areas
4:34 pm Yet another rocket alert Shaar HaNegev
4:32 pm Rocket alert Shaar HaNegev
4:29 pm Rocket alert Shaar HaNegev
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3:30pm Message from the Israel Police: Missing Person at Risk.

Aharon Sofer, 23 from Jerusalem - last seen in the Jerusalem Forest, at noon on August 22, 2014 -- is missing.

He is of slight build, 1.75cm tall, wears glasses, with a short reddish beard. He was was last seen wearing black pants, a white shirt and a black kippa.

Anyone who has any information about this person should please call the Israeli police at 100, or at 02-5391520.

Please Share.

Thank you.

 
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3:27 pm Rocket alert Hof Ashkelon
3:19 pm Another rocket alert Hof Ashkelon
3:18 pm Multiple alerts Hof Ashkelon
3:13 pm Multiple rocket alerts Hof Ashkelon
3:10 pm Another rocket alert Hof Ashkelon
3:09 pm Rocket alert Hof Ashkelon

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2:21pm Gunman opens fire in the Amal polytechnic school in the Israeli-Arab town of Taibe - killing the school principal.

This morning an unidentified gunman opened fire in the Taibe Amal PolyTech high school, killing the principal, Yusef Haj-Yichye in front of his teaching staff. The gunman fired 5 bullets and fled.

An ambulance took the principal to the Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba where he was pronounced dead.

Haj-Yichye was the principal of the school for many years, and announced that he would be running for mayor of Taibe in the next municipal election.

Haj-Yichye was also considered to be one of the main reasons that the Taibe Amal Polytechnic-multidisciplinary school consistently improved and that the student body's academic achievements routinely rose from year to year.

The police have opened an investigation.

 
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2:21 pm Rocket alert Shaar HaNegev
2:05 pm Rocket alert Shaar HaNegev
2:03 pm Rocket alert Hof Ashkelon
1:53 pm Rocket barrage Ashkelon, Hof Ashkelon
1:42 pm Rocket alert Shaar HaNegev
1:03 pm Multiple rocket alerts Hof Ashkelon
 
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12:53 pm From the IDF Spox: During Operation Protective Edge, IDF soldiers captured a Hamas manual that recommends storing explosives in Gaza’s civilian homes and calls for bringing the battle into populated areas.

Hamas Manual Calls for Hiding Bombs in Civilian Homes 
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12:49pm And the "cease fire" talks are allegedly on again....with an Egyptian brokered cease-fire possibly scheduled for this evening. Israel has refused to comment...
 
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12:34pm Israeli Study -- Moderate consumption of alcohol (social drinking) can reduce anxiety and depression related to terror and war, according to an American-Israeli study which explored this link among Israelis during the 2008 Operation Cast Lead in Gaza.

This sort of drinking must be done in moderation -- to prevent people from running into a closet instead of the bomb shelter.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4557446,00.html

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12:25 pm Rocket alert Shaar Hanegev
12:18 pm Rocket alert Shaar HaNegev
12:12 pm Rocket alert Kissufim (Eshkol)
12:09 pm Rocket alert Hof Ashkelon
12:08 pm Rocket alert Shaar HaNegev
12:02 pm Yet another alert in Hof Ashkelon
12:01 pm Rocket Barrage Continues, Shaar HaNegev and Hof Ashkelon
12:00 pm Rocket Barrage Shaar HaNegev, Hof Ashkelon
11:58 am Rocket alert Hof Ashkelon
11:48 am Rocket alert Kerem Shalom
11:39am Rocket alert Sderot
11:33am Rocket alerts Sha'ar Hanegev... Sderot
11:31am Multiple rocket alerts Sha'ar Hanegev... Sderot
11:08am Rocket Alert Sha'ar Hanegev
11:05am Multiple rocket Alerts Beeri
10:57am Rocket Alert Beeri
10:32am Multiple rocket alerts Eshkol Region
10:27am Multiple rocket alerts Hof Ashkelon
10:25am Rocket alert Sha'ar HaNegev and Eshkol
10:16am Rocket alert Sderot
10:12am Rocket alert Eshkol Region
10:06am Rocket alerts Eshkol Region and Hof Ashkelon
9:58am Multiple rocket alerts Beer Sheva
9:57am Rocket alert Beer Sheva
9:47am Multiple rocket alerts Eshkol Region

9:33 am I think it's safe to say that this cartoon represents how we all feel at this exact point in time...








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8:44am Rocket alerts in Eshkol. 

Channel 10 TV reports the sirens in Central Israel minutes ago were false alarms. 

Anyone hear any booms?
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8:23am Rocket alerts Eshkol.
8:18am Barrage towards Central Israel: Herziliya, Raanana, Hod HaSharon, South Sharon, Sharon Coastal regions.

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8:02am Rocket Roundup from midnight:

7:27am Ashkelon
7:26am Ashkelon and surrounding regions
7:21am Otef Aza (Gaza border communities
6:28am Ashdod and surrounding regions...Ashkelon and surrounding regions
6:27am Ashdod and surrounding regions...Ashkelon and surrounding regions
6:22am Eshkol region

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7:54am IDF Spox Overnight Roundup:

Last night the IAF hit 35 targets in Gaza including 2 terrorists shooting rockets at the Gaza border communities.

Additionally, 2 mosques were attacked by IAF airstrikes: one was used as a weapons storage facility and terror center. The other was a North Gaza terror coordination center and meeting place for terrorists.

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2:28am Are we in a secret ceasefire?

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/are-we-in-a-secret-ceasefire/2014/08/25/

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1:48am The difference between ISIS and Hamas 

http://www.jewishpress.com/cartoons/the-difference-between-hamas-and-isis/

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1:39am Hamas knows what goes in and out of all the legal crossings and smuggling tunnels in Gaza. They know when Gazans are crossing into Israel. This attack on Erez today was timed to hit their own people and their Israeli-Arab relatives.

http://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/muqata/this-was-no-accident/2014/08/25/

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12:00am The Chabad House in India (Nariman House) is reopening on Tuesday...



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