And here is the corroborating data from news reports released in one single day [2005_01_23]. Recall that supposedly, the PA police are patrolling the areas to prevent violent attacks on Israel.
1. JPost reports:
A mortar shell was fired at an IDF post near Neveh Dekalim in Gush Katif, exploding in a Palestinian-controlled area nearby, and in the morning a powerful roadside bomb blew up near a tank patrolling near Moshav Katif, damaging several moshav buildings.
An anti-tank rocket was fired at an IDF post in Kfar Darom in southern Gaza, a convoy of civilian vehicles leaving Netzarim in the northern Gaza Strip was fired upon, and south of the Sufa crossing in southern Gaza, soldiers blew up a 40 kilogram bomb, similar to one they blew up in the same area last week.
2. And in another JPost report we read:
One of the largest Hamas bomb factories found in the West Bank in the past three years was discovered early Sunday morning by security forces in the basement of an inhabited apartment building in Nablus's Raffidiyah neighborhood.
This is the kind of action that the hudna will prevent, if indeed officially agreed to by Israel.
3. A third JPost report informs:
Muhammad Arafat Jaber, a member of the Fatah Tanzim in Jenin, was arrested this morning. He planned to launch a suicide bomb attack in Israel.
Don't go away - there is more hudna news!
4. JPost also reports:
Palestinian gunmen fired towards an IDF post by the settlement of Kfar Darom in the central Gaza Strip. No one was wounded and no damage was caused.
5. Arutz7 reports on another incident, not reported in the JPost pieces quoted above:
Bomb Attack Reported in Balata
A bomb was hurled at soldiers in the Balata area of Shechem. There were no reports of injuries.
In the face of the continual terrorist war against Israel, the GOI has developed a new weapon: under-reporting. This fact comes to light as
Arutz7 reports today [2005_01_23]:
IDF Spokesman Overlooks Gush Katif Shooting Incidents
The IDF Spokesman's Office did not report last night on the firing of a mortar shell in southern Gush Katif, and reported another incident in which a house was damaged as having caused "no damage."
The latter incident occurred in Kfar Darom last night, and lasted for at least a half-hour, according to residents. "We know very well the difference between terrorist shooting and our soldiers' return fire," a resident told Arutz-7's Ariel Kahane. "There is no doubt that the terrorists fired directly at our houses throughout the incident. One bullet shattered a window in one home - only miraculously was no one hurt - and a tree branch fell elsewhere and damaged a playground."
The residents reported the shooting to Gush Katif spokesman Eran Sternberg, who, as his custom, notified the reporters. However, the item never made it into the papers because the IDF Spokesman in the Southern Command did not confirm it. He merely told them, "It was a single burst of terrorist fire that caused no casualties and no damage."
The IDF Spokesman reported on an anti-tank rocket fired at Ganei Tal last night, but said nothing about a mortar shell that landed near Gadid in southern Gush Katif.
Gush Katif residents say that the IDF is anxious to conceal incidents or reduce their scope in order not to impair the public impression that Palestinian terrorism in Gaza has ended.
Hudna translated into English
It is possible that no dictionary will give a realistic English translation of "hudna", so we might as well provide this public service right now and right here.
Hudna. Noun. A concept that implies the simultaneous application of these steps: (i) Arabs continue terror; (ii) Israel "exercises restraint"; (iii) Arabs use the opportunity to regroup, re-arm and re-organize; (iv) Israel buries her dead and repairs the continual destruction. Hunda usually ends with extensive Arab terror, for which "The International Community" [TM] blames Israel.
And here is the corroborating data from news reports released in one single day [2005_01_23]. Recall that supposedly, the PA police are patrolling the areas to prevent violent attacks on Israel.
1. JPost reports:
2. And in another JPost report we read:
This is the kind of action that the hudna will prevent, if indeed officially agreed to by Israel.3. A third JPost report informs:
Don't go away - there is more hudna news!4. JPost also reports:
5. Arutz7 reports on another incident, not reported in the JPost pieces quoted above:
In the face of the continual terrorist war against Israel, the GOI has developed a new weapon: under-reporting. This fact comes to light as Arutz7 reports today [2005_01_23]:
Posted by Joseph Alexander Norland at January 24, 2005 08:03 AM