Inside a Gaza Rocket Factory

Despite the recent truce between Israel and Hamas, Palestinian terrorists are busy manufacturing rockets for a "rainy" day.

Here is a rare glimpse into the workings of a terrorist group as observed by CNN during a tour of this weapon factory and terrorists' training camp (hat tip: Backspin blog)

Yesterday, a rocket was launched into Israel from Gaza, violating the fragile truce - this is the 43rd rocket launched since the truce began.

Comments

[spoffmoffat]

..undoubtedly a spectacle orchestrated for the camera -
undoubtedly but by whom?
I am always suspicious of pieces that do not mention the 80 or so Palestinian civilians killed by Israel for every one Israeli death so as to give a little balance.
Muhammad Abdul Aal is either a made up figure or a lunatic like one of those crazy Christian fundys who go nuts on guns. Google him. Ask any Palestinian about the beheading Britney business and he'll laugh his head off. Nobody in Palestine except the aforementioned loony class would say such a thing.

[spoffmoffat]

..undoubtedly a spectacle orchestrated for the camera -
undoubtedly but by whom?
I am always suspicious of pieces that do not mention the 80 or so Palestinian civilians killed by Israel for every one Israeli death so as to give a little balance.
Muhammad Abdul Aal is either a made up figure or a lunatic like one of those crazy Christian fundys who go nuts on guns. Google him. Ask any Palestinian about the beheading Britney business and he'll laugh his head off. Nobody in Palestine except the aforementioned loony class would say such a thing.

[Laser]

These terrorists have good public relations, and that clouds the fact that they use the cease fire continue their preparations to murder still more Israeli citizens.

The last thing that Israel should do is make good will gestures towards these terrorists. The only hope for an end to Muslim terror will be an overwhelming military action that will make Hamas and its satellites sue for peace.

[Sarah]

hmmm ... just imagine how delightful it will be if we force Israel to surrender the whole of Judea and Samaria to these brutal barbarians!

...and ... who really believes that Barack Hussein Obama can sit down and negotiate with these brutal barbarians?!

...more to the point ... who really believes there is even a remote possibility that there is a "peace partner" that respects Israel's right to exist among them?!

Run them out of the Land. Jordan did!

[Mordechay Ariely]

It is just one additional peace proving that Hamas is following their doctrine.
Folloing Hamas leaders quates:
1:Hamas leader Khaled Mash'al, which aired on Al-Jazeera TV/
Hamas and the other resistance factions will use the tahdiah to grow stronger, both in terms of weapons and training, and that the people will recover and prepare for the next round of resistance, because we are talking about a tactical tahdia/
In 2003, we began a tahdiah, and later renewed the operations. The same thing happened following 2005
Hamas MP Fathi Hammad: We Used Women and Children as Human Shields
2: A speech delivered by Hamas MP Fathi Hammad, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV .
[The enemies of Allah] do not know that the Palestinian people has developed its [methods] of death and death-seeking. For the Palestinian people, death has become an industry. This is why they have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly, and the mujahideen, in order to challenge the Zionist bombing machine. It is as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: "We desire death like you desire life

[arielle s.]

@spoffmoffat

how can you, who has access to plenty of literature and media on the subject, and therefore must be aware of at least the fact that a majority of palestinians have voted for hamas, the murderous subdivision of the muslim brotherhood (which also generated evils like al qaida), spread the propagandist lies of the muslim jerks who for example deny women the pleasure to ride bicycles in public unless accompanied by a male relative simply because they are women and therefore less ? Your hateful antisemitism is outrageous and should be judicially prosecuted !

[JFred]

The Palestinians in Gaza are not working on peace. They are not working on compromise or getting a better deal from final status negotiations. They actually expect to conquer Israel by force.

Israel has a few anti-rocket options: 1) Anti-rocket missiles. 2) Push back the Gaza population so they are out of range. 3) Tighter enforcement of the borders. 4) Tough it out until the Gazans get bored. 5) Severe punishment for launching rockets.

The situation will bubble along until Iran decides to give a nuke to Hamas, then all hell breaks loose.

[dan]

This is barely news worthy. 1701 brought a 'truce' to south lebanon, and now they too have doubled their capacity. When ever the world forces a truce, all it does is double the blood shed, when things start back up again. Hamas, doesnt need the truce so things calm down.. they need to rearm as fast and strong as they can so they use the hizbollah method come round 2.
Perhaps Israel should manufacture the exact same rocket, so when israel retaliates, the media would have to be even handed in condemning israel along with the terrorists.

[gerard]

Thanks God,these terorists wil be dead soon.

[gerard]

Thanks God,these terorists wil be dead soon.

[Yehoram Margolin]

The government needs to stop the transport of merchandises from Israel to Gaza Strip if Hamas does not take care of truce and continue to shoot rockets incessantly.