Sentences with phrase «rocket attacks»

Israel's strike was part of their retaliation against a Hamas - controlled region that has issued a recent streak of rocket attacks on Israeli territories.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

«I utterly condemn rocket attacks from Gaza into southern Israel by Hamas and other armed groups.

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

«Tobacco Industry Fighting Potential Ban on Minty - Fresh Cigarettes Main Hezbollah Rocket Attack Victims Sue Al - Jazeera in SDNY»

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.

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.

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.

In terms of avoiding rocket attacks, well, they frequently conduct raids and they are doing everything possible.

Ever heard of FLNC, who carried out simultaneous rocket attacks in two French cities in December 2013?

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.

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.»

Foreign secretary David Miliband continued to urge restraint this morning after opposing the Israeli response to Palestinian rocket attacks yesterday.

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.

«Day after day, night after night, Israelis have been living lives of incredible anxiety as their nation faces a constant barrage of rocket attacks fired by Hamas, a terrorist organization whose publicly stated goal is to destroy the State of Israel,» said Borough President Melinda Katz.

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.

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.

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.

A haunting sequence set during a nighttime rocket attack and lit only by occasional strobes while an unseen enemy screams out at frayed Marines recalls a similar one from Coppola's Apocalypse Now, while Richard Widmark's reluctant Lt. Anderson (a quiet former schoolteacher beset by doubt and anger) and Neville Brand's Sgt. Zelenko are clearly the prototypes for Tom Hanks's Capt. John Miller and Tom Sizemore's Sgt. Horvath, respectively, in Saving Private Ryan.

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.

The plaintiffs allege that Al - Jazeera, in 2006, broadcast live video of rocket attack sites inside Israel, in violation of Israeli law, in order to aid Hezbollah in hitting its targets.

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

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

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.

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).

The president's decision to pull the U.S. out of the feckless nuclear pact is very popular in Israel, but Iran's mullahs used the decision as an excuse to launch rocket attacks from Syria.

«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.

Yesterday, victims of Hezbollah rocket attacks and relatives of those who were killed in such attacks filed a lawsuit -LRB-.

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.

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

He condemns the two rocket attacks against Israel this morning.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.