Hamas stopped the rockets and mortars, but Israel only tighten it’s death grip.
From Israel’s own website:
Rockets:
Mortars:
FOR the record, Israel broke the ceasefire:
Israel breaks Gaza ceasefire, assassinates six
Report,
5 November 2008
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns in the strongest possible terms the killing of six Palestinians carried out by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) in the Gaza Strip yesterday evening and this morning. The victims were all killed by air strikes. This escalation is the first of its kind since the tahdia (the Egyptian-brokered truce between Palestinian resistance groups and Israel) entered into force on 19 June 2008.
4 November, an IOF infantry unit moved almost 400 meters into Wadi al-Salqa village, east of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. IOF troops raided a house belonging to Mofeed Suleiman al-Rumaili. They held the family hostage in one room, and used the house as a military base. Additional IOF troops besieged a house belonging to Hassan Suleiman al-Humiadi, using a megaphone to order the 23 residents to leave the building.
snipAt approximately 10:30pm, an IOF aircraft fired a missile at members of the Izzedin al-Qassam Brigades, killing Mazen Nazmi Abu Sada (32). In the early hours of Wednesday, 5 November, IOF destroyed al-Humaidi’s house, razed 2.5 dunams (a dunam is the equivalent of 1,000 square meters) of agricultural land, and also arrested six members of the family, including four women.
In Khan Yunis, at approximately midnight on Wednesday, 5 November, an IOF aircraft fired two missiles at four members of the Izzedin al-Qassam Brigades in the east of al-Qarara village, near the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel. The four members of the Brigades were killed:
- Mahmoud Taha Abdul Rahman Balousha (21);
- Omar Saleem Khader al-Alami, (20);
- Wajed Nizam Hamza Muhareb, (19);
- Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed Awadh, (26).
http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9937.shtml
Beginning of Nov. Israel started starving people…to soften them up for another invasion that had been planned for 6 months.
Gaza: Power and water cuts and bread shortage
On 5 November, Israel closed the crossings into the Gaza Strip and blocked the entry of goods and supplies, including basic foodstuffs. Since 18 November, Israel has allowed the entry of goods, though much less than in October. LIES: According to government officials, the crossings were closed in response to the firing of more than 100 rockets and mortar shells from the Gaza Strip into Israel. Prior to the closing of the crossings, on 4 and 5 November, Israeli forces killed six Palestinians who were taking part in the hostilities.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that, from 5-18 November, the Gaza power station received 24 percent of the industrial fuel needed to operate the station at full capacity. As a result, power supply to Gaza City and the central Gaza Strip was interrupted for 16 hours a day, leaving some 650,000 residents without electricity at any given time. The power breaks also affected water supply: 20 percent of all Gazans received running water once every five days, and then only for six hours; 40 percent received water once every four days; and the remaining residents received water once every three days.
http://www.btselem.org/English/Gaza_Strip/20081127_More_Sanctions_on_Gaza.asp
25 December 2008
The Gaza Strip, home to more than 1.5 million Palestinians, will soon be without its most basic commodity: bread.snip
Yesterday, after I finished my lecture at one of Gaza’s universities, my wife asked me to bring some bread from Gaza City. All bakeries in our area have stopped operating because of the lack of flour and cooking gas due to Israel’s 18-month siege of the territory.
I drove throughout Gaza City to try to find some bread for my four children, instead finding a miserable scene. On the drive back to my home in the Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, I saw dozens of people lining up in rows to get bread from al-Yazji Bakery. I quickly realized that it would take one or two hours until it would be my turn in line, by which time I might not find bread at all. So I continued my drive back to Maghazi, without bread.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=49887
WHY you asked. Because Israel wants to provoke Iran into responding. Their temper tantrums DEMANDING that the United States bomb the shit out of Iran, just like we did in Iraq [per Jewish neo-cons] has not worked. And Hamas was close to controlling the chaos, [and stopping the rockets] that Israel had been creating by causing a civil war in Palestine. With a united Palestinian people, Israel would have been forced into a negotiated peace by the Obama administration. They had to act quickly to derail any chance the Palestinians had for peace.
Why…so they can keep the land they have stolen.
They stole it thousands of years ago, and they think it’s their god given right to steal it again, damn the rest of the world.