Sentences with phrase «hezbollah rocket attacks»

Those goals were accomplished to a certain extent: In addition to the demolished tunnels, once - frequent rocket attacks have dwindled to perhaps one or two a month, including one on early Monday morning.

Last March, a Marine outpost established to support the operation to retake Mosul, Iraq came under rocket attack by ISIS militants, killing Staff Sgt. Louis Cardin.

This system substantially improves the warning time to individuals, which would have the effect of reduce casualties from rocket attacks.

I don't know what system was in place in 2006, but I do know that the phone applications now used to warn people of possible rocket attacks are a new innovation in the civilian early - warning system.

In the 2006 conflict, before Iron Dome was in place, there were much higher casualties in Israel from rocket attacks.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been speaking with world leaders including UN Secretary General Ban - ki Moon, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and US Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs John Kerry and asserting Israel's right to defend itself against incessant rocket attacks and terrorist infiltrations which no country can be expected to suffer without responding.

The worst rocket attack was on the Kiryat Malachi region with four rockets intercepted by Iron Dome but a missile hit a cowshed causing carnage among the cattle.

It was «launched in response to incessant rocket attacks... to cripple terror organizations in the Gaza Strip and defend Israelis living under fire» (IDF 2012b).

Some observers consider the rocket attacks a «strategic threat» (Rubin 2011), while others discount them (Perry 2014).

[356] The Obama administration asked Congress to allocate money toward funding the Iron Dome program in response to the waves of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel.

A rocket attack on this scale, without an effective solution, would have forced the IDF to mobilize the reserves and embark on a broad - scale operation in Gaza.

In a broader war, he says, it is possible that the interceptors could be used to protect emergency stores, sensitive installations and air force bases to allow them to carry on fighting even under rocket attack.

And starting and winning a war justifies taking further land, but rocket attacks are terrorism?

Christian aid agencies are among those supporting the people of Gaza, which has been hit by Israeli airstrikes in response to Hamas rocket attacks.

If the Israelis wanted the peace in the region, and to stop all the rocket attacks, etc, they would escort the humanitarian aid ships to Gaza, instead of offloading the ships at one of their ports AND treating the aid workers (who are civilians) like criminals.

The military operation was launched by Israel on 8 July in an attempt to halt rocket attacks on the country but the UN says the majority of the people dead are innocent civilians.

Meanwhile, Two Hamas members have been killed in Israeli air strikes following a rocket attack on Israel, Gaza officials said.

But the understandable anxiety of American Jews over the future of Israel — especially when they hear of rocket attacks by terrorists against villages in northern Israel (and of Israel's massive retaliation)-- should not lead American Jews to think that unceasing pressure against the president, the Congress and public opinion in this country represents the best means of ensuring Israel's future security.

The Israeli position is that it is unreasonable to expect them to submit to terror attacks and rocket attacks on its people from the Palestinians.

The pace of settlement building has increased, rocket attacks on Israel have increased, frustration and insecurity has deepened on both sides, and the parties have not been able to agree a return to talks.

Proclaiming that the ground and air offensive into Gaza in January was the result of continued Qassam rocket attacks into southern Israel doesn't cut the mustard.

The event is being organised by Staff Sgt Jim Nowell and will include his younger brother 27 year old ex - LCpl Chris Nowell from Dronfield, Derbyshire, who was badly injured in 2007 in a rocket attack on his base in Afghanistan resulting in the loss of his sight.

Is at its core a terrorist organization, fully officially supporting terrorist attacks on civilians, perpetrating rocket attacks on cities, and kidnappings as political tools

Though the security fence around the West Bank has substantially reduced the number of terrorist attacks, Hamas and Islamic Jihad continue to launch rocket attacks from Gaza.

Queens Borough President Melinda Katz will speak at the press conference the Queens Jewish Community Council (QJCC) is holding tomorrow morning to give elected officials and community leaders the opportunity to show support for the State of Israel and its people as Israel continues to defend itself from the rocket attacks the terrorist group Hamas -LSB-...]

The challenge of providing security for the poll, corrupted or not by electoral fraud, was underlined by a rocket attack on the presidential palace in Kabul this morning.

Labour shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander struck a similar tone, saying: «The recent rocket attacks into southern Israel that have led to this latest response deserve our categorical condemnation but Israel must at all times act in accordance with international law.»

Her departure came after internal argument inside the National Security Council over Cameron's refusal to condemn the aggressive Israeli response to the Hamas rocket attacks.

Lady Warsi said the prime minister had lost moral authority, undermined the national interest and deprived Britain of its historic role as an honest broker in the Middle East by refusing to condemn the aggressive Israeli response to the Hamas rocket attacks as disproportionate.

Prime minister speaks after Labour leader urged government to condemn both Israel's military action and Hamas's rocket attacks

Rocket attacks by militant Palestinian group Hamas in Gaza on Israel have prompted area police agencies to keep an extra sharp eye out.

«We shared our view in the root cause... that is Hamas continues the rocket attacks and violence,» Mr Wolff said.

«The prime minister expressed his sympathy for the unacceptable rocket attacks that Israel continued to suffer,» a Downing Street spokesperson said.

Its wholly unjustified rocket attacks on Israeli citizens, as well as the building of tunnels for terrorist purposes, show the organisation's murderous intent and practice towards Israel and its citizens.

«Hamas is a terrorist organisation and I utterly condemn their rocket attacks on Israel and the murder of Israeli soldiers, but that can not excuse the scale of the loss of life of innocent Palestinian civilians, including children, that we are seeing,» Miliband said.

However, Miliband refused to back down, saying Cameron should be much clearer that Israel's actions in Gaza are wrong, just like the rocket attacks perpetrated by Hamas.

Throw in the possibility there will be more Iranian rocket attacks and the week ahead is shaping up as an extreme metaphor for the good, the bad and the ugly of Israel's modern existence.

«It is so important not only to stop this terrible humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza itself, with hundreds upon hundreds of innocent civilians being killed, but also for the longterm security of innocent Israeli civilians who have been subject to these unacceptable rocket attacks.

Democratic Congresswoman Nita Lowey, the ranking member on the House Appropriations Committee, denounced rocket attacks against Israel as the clash between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas continues.

For example, there have been calls for the expulsion of all Jews from the land; Iran explicitly threatens destruction of the state of Israel; and there are continual rocket attacks from Gaza and Lebanon.

Mike and the President are the sole survivors of a rocket attack on the President's helicopter and its decoys, leading the duo to run, drive, and fight through a park, some streets, the subway, and a couple of buildings.

April 10, 2018 • Evidence presented in a U.S. federal court claims that the 56 - year - old American was intentionally targeted in a rocket attack by Syrian regime forces in 2012.

When the marines are pinned down under a vicious rocket attack, Lt. Anderson and his small unit of men are sent on a mission to discover the source of their torment and bring back prisoners.

Colvin died in 2012 during a rocket attack while covering the Siege of Homs in Syria for the U.K.'s Sunday Times.

One example is the constant reference to rocket attacks into Israel from Gaza.

Nowadays, I find it amazing when Israeli loyalists talk about the suffering of Israelis, who are in the line of rocket attacks from Gaza, without the slightest concern for the far greater suffering of Palestinians who are subjected to infinitely more destructive rockets from Israel, not to mention an economic blockade that has caused immense suffering on every level of existence.

There is nothing inherently wrong with reporting on such incidents, but what is egregious is that little or no mention is ever made of the fact that rocket attacks into Gaza from Israel are far more lethal and far more numerous.

The mission involved fighting Mecha - Ghidorah in Tokyo while subsequently enduring Japanese military helicopter and rocket attacks.

The White House on Thursday condemned Iran's rocket attacks on Israel, saying it supports «Israel's right to act in self - defense.»

Long - ruling Prime Minister Hun Sen, whom many consider a backer of the biggest logging group, Try Pheap, recently said he had authorized rocket attacks on illegal loggers.