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The Escalation Will Lead To... NOWHERE!!

Terrorists threaten to upgrade missiles

Three armed Palestinian groups in the Gaza Strip on Monday threatened to continue their attacks on Israel and said they have long-range missiles capable of reaching more Israeli towns and cities.

One of the groups belongs to Fatah, the ruling party headed by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. The two others are the Popular Resistance Committees, an alliance of various armed groups, and al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad.

PA officials in Ramallah expressed deep concern over the threats and said Israel was responsible for the latest cycle of violence. "Israel must stop its military offensive before the situation gets out of control," a senior PA official told The Jerusalem Post. "Israel's decision to set up a security zone [in the northern Gaza Strip] will only complicate matters." 

Asked about the new long-range missiles, the official said he did not rule out the possibility that such weapons had been smuggled from Egypt in recent weeks.

Representatives of the three armed groups appeared at a joint press conference in Gaza City, where they said attacks on Israel would continue following of Israel's decision to establish a security zone in the northern Gaza Strip to stop rocket attacks.

"The security zone will never bring security to Israel," said one of the gunmen. "As the Zionist enemy is in a state of confusion because of our painful attacks, the war leaders of the Zionist enemy are threatening to wage a merciless war on our people and their freedom fighters."

A leaflet distributed by the three groups said the current truce with Israel "went to hell" because of Israel's policy of targeted killings. "Launching rocket attacks is one of the means of resistance and soon there will be surprises," the leaflet warned.

Earlier, the armed wing of Fatah, Aksa Martyrs Brigades, claimed that it possessed Grad missiles with a range of 25 kilometers.

"If Israel sets up a security zone in the northern Gaza Strip our group will not sit idly by," warned Abu Fadi, a spokesman for the group in the Gaza Strip. "We will use these weapons and the occupation government will be the biggest loser due to its own actions."

"Members of the [Fatah] rocket unit are capable of hitting targets deep in the Zionist entity," he added. "We want to warn the barbaric [Defense Minister Shaul] Mofaz that our men can hit targets in Ashkelon. But we have no plans to use these missiles unless Israel attacks the Gaza Strip or assassinates senior Palestinian commanders."

The 122-mm. caliber Grad missile, officially known as BM-21, was first used by the Soviet Red Army in 1963. The first missiles were fired from trucks fitted with launchers capable of firing 40 rockets within six seconds.

The Popular Resistance Committees also claimed on Monday that its members managed to develop a homemade rocket with a range of 15 km.

Muhammad Abdel al-Al, a spokesman for the group who is better known by his nickname Abu Abeer, said the group's armed wing, Salah al-Din Brigades, developed the rockets that were fired into Israel during the past few months with an accuracy rate of about 80 percent. He claimed that his group had maps of army bases and towns and cities near the Gaza Strip.

The claims of improved rocket technology came as Palestinians fired three Kassam rockets at southern Israel. No injuries or damage were reported.

One rocket landed near a kindergarten in a kibbutz near Gaza during a Hanukka party that was attended by 50 children.

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Please read the comments (about 50 or so..)!

For example:

"3. Stopping the rockets
Mark Rosenblit - Three Boys Presently Serving in IDF
12/26/2005 18:29

While it's possible to reduce injury to life & property by digging more bomb shelters, thickening building walls, or -- more radically but only creating a temporary respite -- relocating whole towns beyond rocket range, these defensive measures will not stop our adversaries from firing rockets at our civilian population centers. On the contrary, they will radiate weakness & serve as a catalyst for the manufacture of a better class of rockets. As distastful as it might sound to modern ears, the only way to stop rockets raining down upon our civilian population centers (short of expelling the Arabs from Gaza -- which may yet come to pass) is to retaliate with mortar fire against Gaza's civilian population centers. Yes, Israel will be severely condemned by the U.N, the U.S., the E.U. & an alphabet soup of "humanitarian" NGOs -- in fact, despite Israel's famous restraint, that already happens on a daily basis -- but the rockets WILL stop. Shame on the Government for not taking action."

"13. What are Israel's leaders waiting for
Earnest
12/26/2005 20:29

Hey, Israeli leaders, there is a war going on and bombs aimed at your peaceful citizens. What the h... are you waiting for. No country in the world would sit and wait for a split second. What has become of Israel. There is no father or mother there any more."

"28. Why not?
Bruce P. - Sweden
12/26/2005 23:01

Why not terminate a militant leader, wait for the fanatic funeral attended by his followers in the thousands, then drop a bomb right in the middle of it? Preferably a Daisy Cutter..."

And so on, and so on...

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?apage=2&cid=1134309652347&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Actually it's very interesting (well, with the most I don't agree, not at all..), because it just shows the reality there...

12.27, I"D"F heavy artillery against Gaza

Read also this:

IDF to enforce northern Gaza buffer zone as of 6 p.m. (Jerusalem Post, 12.28)

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1135696348167&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

Israel hits back to halt Palestinian rocket attacks (The Guardian, UK, 12.28)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1674331,00.html