these "rockets" are called Qassam - they are NOT what you believe they are. Educate yourself, please. These rockets have killed IN TOTAL 40 people by accident, because they are basically firecrackers. Who told you that they are some "Katyusha"? What is this BS? Ask yourself: 1) WHY Gaza inmates organize into armed struggle and WHAT are they responding to? 2) WHAT is "Gaza" and WHY is it there as a barbed wired prison, first of all?
How come you blame the resistance and not the initial Zionist colonialism that seeks to eliminate the non-Jewish population, forever expands its borders by illegal conquest and made Gaza in 1948 out of people, EXPELLED from their homes, so the imported Zionists could take the land and the houses?
Unless you believe that it is not a struggle against a criminal ethno-religious colonial supremacist race state - but "Arabs" inherently hate "Jews", as racist supremacists conveniently bamboozle the population into.
Here is the report about "rockets" in 2018.
How Israelis lie about "rockets being fired by Hamas". And you believe this without even checking and fantasize about "Katyusha" which Palestinians resistance never had.
In 2018:
"Hamas had not been firing rockets into Israel at all.
Not in the days prior. Not in the weeks prior. Not in the months prior. Not even in the years prior.
According to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), 25 rockets fired from Gaza struck Israel in 2015, and 15 rockets in 2016. The IDF itself identified none of those rockets as having been fired by Hamas.
In 2017, according to the IDF, 35 rockets and mortars were fired at Israel from Gaza. Most of them, about 30, had been fired in the very last month of the year, after US President Donald Trump on December 6 said Jerusalem was Israel’s capital (even though East Jerusalem is under international law “occupied Palestinian territory”, and for the US to move its embassy there would be illegal). About half of them landed inside Gaza.
The IDF also acknowledged that these rockets were not being fired by Hamas. Rather, as the Israeli daily Haaretz reported, the IDF attributed the attacks to “the desire by Islamic Jihad and other Salafi organizations to thwart the planned reconciliation between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas”, as well as Islamic Jihad’s “desire to avenge Israels destruction of a cross-border attack tunnel in October that killed 12 of the organizations operatives.”
See, Hamas has actually long been trying to suppress the very rocket attacks the New York Times would have you believe it was responsible for routinely until the Gaza protests. Hamas and the Salafi groups firing these rockets are actually at odds with each other. Of course, Israel holds Hamas responsible for any rocket attacks — even though it knows that Hamas isn’t the one doing it. This has been the situation for quite a long time. Every serious observer knows this. Halbfinger is the Times‘ Jerusalem Bureau Chief. He cannot not know this.
Data for this year isn’t so easily obtained. But according to the list compiled at Wikipedia, there were six rockets fired in January and five or more in February. According to the list compiled by the Jewish Virtual Library, there were four rockets in January and one in February.
Pointing out the low number of rocket attacks is not to trivialize their seriousness. Indiscriminate rocket attacks on Israeli civilian population centers are a war crime. The point is that the Times‘ claim that there had been “a fairly steady tempo” of rocket attacks until the Gaza protests started last month is at best misleading. And the Times‘ insinuation that rockets that have been fired were fired by Hamas is also maliciously false.
Compare the Times‘ claim with the acknowledgment from Michael Kaplow writing last week in the Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle that “Hamas has not fired a rocket in 14 months”.
I would challenge Kaplow even to support his implication that Hamas fourteen months ago was responsible for firing rockets at Israel; but regardless, it puts the lie to the Times‘ claim that Hamas had been steadily raining down rockets on Israel until the demonstrations began last month.
The falseness of the Times‘ claim also goes to the broader propaganda purpose of the article. What the Times won’t tell you is that, actually, it is Israel that has routinely violated its ceasefire agreements with Hamas — including the ceasefires in place prior to its major operations “Cast Lead” (2008-2009), “Pillar of Defense” (2012), and “Protective Edge” (2014).
Hamas has also since 2005 expressed its acceptance of a Palestinian state alongside Israel within the 1949 armistice lines (a.k.a. the 1967 lines or “Green Line”).
And there is a great deal more about Hamas, and the Israel-Palestine conflict in general, that the Times does not disclose to its readers. This kind of information isn’t reported — and lies like the above are reported — because the media fulfill the self-designated purpose of manufacturing consent for the US policy of supporting Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians."
https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2018/04/19/new-york-times-lies-that-hamas-has-been-firing-rockets-at-israel/?fbclid=IwAR14DdLR36j6xvh_B5usPw9LSAF6OSyXS62kTmyhAJ2ssttg7wIDqrcU4_Qi
