"In recent months, Fatah—and not Hamas—has been responsible for many of the Qassam rocket attacks and interdicted terrorist infiltrations into Israel."
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/04/the_waitings_over_hamas_makes.php
"Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has ordered what officials called limited military action in Gaza after renewed rocket fire by Palestinian militants... On Tuesday, the armed wing of the Hamas movement said a five-month truce with Israel was over. It fired a barrage of rockets from Gaza into Israel, but no-one was injured."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6591707.stm
Who you gonna believe? According to the BBC a) Qassams are a Hamas thing and b) there haven't been any Qassams for the last five months. The people of Sderot might be able to help them out with some facts. If the BBC ever bothered to ask them. The Israeli government have not been responding to the Qassam attacks over the last few months because they wanted the world to see that no Palestinian 'ceasefire' was worth the paper it was printed on. But at some point, making your point has to take a back seat to protecting your people. They know that Gaza is turning into an armed camp of various strains of Al-Qaeda-type Islamists often working hand in glove with Fatah. Interestingly, Egypt is now paying close attention too, as the last thing they want is the influence of those groups spreading South as well as North. Watch for Egypt to play a quiet backup role to Israel in neutralising the Islamist upsurge in Gaza. No point checking the Beeb website for that though! Remember, if it ain't Pali propaganda, the Beeb ain't buying. Got to laugh at that 'but no-one was injured' add-on. Makes it sound like it was a polite shot across the bows...
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