Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: Qassam calendar

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Tuesday, August 21, 2007

August Qassam Calendar

Earlier calendars:
July
June
May
April
March
February

While Qassam rockets have slowed down, they are still fired often enough to terrorize Israeli citizens in Sderot, not to mention that they sometimes still hit buildings and injure citizens.

This calendar does not count mortars.

Earlier calendars:
June
May
April
March
February

June Qassam calendar

As with the February, March , April and May calendars, the numbers for each date represent the number of Qassams fired on that day. The numbers in parentheses (second row after date) are those I saw reported by Palestinian Arab media, outside of parentheses (first row after date) are those reported in Israeli media. Italics represent mortars, not rockets, but I am not keeping track of that consistently. I am no longer maintaining the days Israel has fired back, as it has been pretty much every day since May 15th.

June

July 1 at least 1
July 2 3 (Arab media)
July 3 1
July 8 5

May Qassam Calendar

As with the February, March and April calendars, the numbers for each date represent the number of Qassams fired on that day. The numbers in parentheses (second row after date) are those I saw reported by Palestinian Arab media, outside of parentheses (first row after date) are those reported in Israeli media. Linked dates are dates that Israel fired back. (Israel has fired back every day since the 15th and I have not maintained links for each day.)

May

Italicized numbers indicated number of mortars claimed to have been fired, as opposed to rockets.

June calendar here.

April Qassam calendar

As with the February and March calendars, the numbers for each date represent the number of Qassams fired on that day. The numbers in parentheses are those I saw reported by Palestinian Arab media, outside of parentheses are those reported in Israeli media.

The dates with URLs (in red on some browsers) are the days Israel responded to events in Gaza.

May calendar here.

April

Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
1	2	3	4	5	6	7
(2)		1	3	1	(2)	1
8	9	10	11	12	13	14
(1)				(4)		(2)
15	16	17	18	19	20	21
	1 (2)	(1)		(4)		4 (6)
22	23	24	25	26	27	28
1	(2+ 2)	10 (30)	1 (3)	2 (2 +2)	1 (1)	(3)
29	30
1 (2)	(5)

It appears that Blogger doesn't allow me to link contiguous strings with different URLs so I lost some of the URLs above. Sorry.

Qassam Calendar for March (final)

As with the February calendar, the numbers for each date represent the number of Qassams fired on that day. The numbers in parentheses are those I saw reported by Palestinian Arab media, outside of parentheses are those reported in Israeli media.

The one day highlighted in red is the single day since the "cease-fire" started that Israel reacted to Qassams in Gaza.

March

Qassam Rocket calendar - March

Qassam Rocket calendar - February

Here is my best shot at keeping track of when rockets were fired at Israel from Gaza so far this month. On the 8th, 10 were claimed to have been shot by Islamic Jihad but only four or so were recorded as having landed.

The numbers in parentheses are from Palestinian terror group claims, not from Israeli confirmed sources.

Remember that Israel still regards this as being "calm" and has only rarely responded to Gaza terror since the "cease fire" announced in November.

February 2007 Qassam attacks

March calendar here.

A month of a unilateral "cease fire"

As the calendar on my sidebar is showing, we now have had nine consecutive days of Qassam rockets being shot at Israel, making it 24 out of 32 days since the illusory "cease-fire" was announced that rockets have been launched (click on any day's link for more details; some of the days link to earlier articles in the day and more Qassams were fired later that I didn't capture):

So far today (12/26)there have been five rockets.

Olmert, trying hard to prove that he can decend to new levels of idiocy every day, took strong action:

The Olmert administration is depending on diplomatic retaliation at this point and instructed United Nations Ambassador Dan Gillerman to register a strong complaint with the U.N.

And how was this strong complaint worded?

"The continuous rocket attacks and grave violation of Israel's sovereignty constitutes a grim threat to peace and security in the region... which may bring to a deterioration of the situation," Gillerman continued in the letter.

Gillerman asked that the Security Council immediately condemn the attacks and warn those parties on the Palestinian side who are "provoking the situation" that they may bring to a renewed eruption of hostilities.

Evidently, in the bizarre language of UN diplomacy, dozens of Qassams don't destroy peace, but are only a "grim threat." They aren't "hostilities", but they may bring a "renewed eruption."

But surely there are fewer rockets being fired now than before the cease-fire? Certainly things are calmer, right?

Ummmm.....no.

Information collected by the defense establishment indicates that only during the months of June, July, and November more rockets were fired than in this month of calm. In contrast, during the months of February, April, August, and September, the months where there was no calm, there were less Qassam attacks than during the ceasefire.

So there is literally no relationship between Israel acting with restraint and the number of Palestinian Arab rocket attacks.

Yet Olmert, against the advice of the IDF, is gambling with his citizen's lives and betting that the world will put some sort of "pressure"on a reichlet that he himself is now funding and arming!

Another day, another Qassam ("cease fire" update)

I just put the following calendar on the sidebar so as not to keep it on as the top article every day.

The dates that are linked are the ones where Kassam rockets were fired to Israel since the "cease-fire," with links to the news stories that have the details.

According to AP, the IDF denied any rockets landed on Friday and Saturday the 1st and 2nd. I don't know which are correct - the IDF or the newspapers, or if AP just got the story wrong.

UPDATE 9: Five rockets so far Wednesday 12/20.
UPDATE 8: Two more rockets Tuesday, 12/19. And then another.
UPDATE 7: Two rockets shot Monday morning 12/18, one hit a kibbutz orchard.
UPDATE 6: 4 rockets Friday and Saturday. We have yet to have more than two consecutive days without rocket fire since the "cease fire" went into effect.
UPDATE 5: Thursday morning and Thursday evening.
UPDATE 4: YNet reports that the Tuesday rockets came after "five days of calm." I do not understand how the rockets reported on Friday, Saturday and Monday were not counted by YNet.
UPDATE 3: 2 Monday rockets and 3 Tuesday rockets. (updated to 5 rockets.)
UPDATE 2: Friday and Saturday rockets. They might not have all landed in Israel but they certainly were intended to.
UPDATE: Wednesday rocket.