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November 15th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Kiryat Malachi, a town of 20,000, had ranked among the fortunate few in the
area of southern Israel, having never suffered a rocket strike before. But
on Thursday, Mrs Sharf was among three who died. Next door, the bodies of
Aharon Smagda, a 49-year-old father of three, and Itzik Amselam, 24, were
found.
White-suited medics emerged from its doors clutching plastic bags after
collecting each piece of the human remains. Six other people were injured,
including two infants, one of eight months old.
Matthew Gould, the British ambassador to Israel,
visited the site himself and described it as “desperately upsetting”.
He added: “We talk about civilian casualties, but to go and see for
oneself, to see a family destroyed – it puts a very different perspective on
matters. My message is that I stand with these people. The situation is
intolerable”.
With no school and all the factories shut, Kiryat Malachi’s inhabitants
loitered in the open spaces. Boys preparing for the inevitable call up to
join the Israel Defence Forces were defiant. “We are not afraid. We
want to have a go at Hamas until they are crushed,” said Avi Jacob
Tziko, 16. “It is time the terrorists were put in the toilet.” In
the meantime, Israel has drilled one million people in the south in a
well-practiced safety routine.
Everyone knows what to do when the warning siren sounds. Different towns
afford different windows for taking cover, depending on their proximity to
Gaza. In Kiryat Malachi and Beersheva, the capital of the Negev, you have 45
seconds after the siren sounds. In the coastal town of Ashkelon, there is a
30-second margin. In the frontline town of Sderot, nearest to Gaza of them
all, there is a virtually meaningless 15-second interval.
When the wail goes, people abandon their cars and run. Others throw themselves
to the ground. “The injuries are mostly to the skull – so lie flat
against the kerb and cover up your head,” said one civil defence
volunteer as the Daily Telegraph sought shelter from one siren.
“This morning there were three sirens and maybe ten rockets,” said
17-year old Paz Azaran, a resident of Ashkelon. “I have not known a
time when there were no rockets. If there is a siren in the night or day you
have to run. The booms and bangs are scary.”
Adina Azaran, her mother, said the increased rocket fire of recent days –
Israel’s government estimates 245 missiles have been fired in the last 48
hours – was a price worth paying if the military offensive in Gaza succeeds
in restoring “calm”.
“The people of the south [of Israel] might be suffering because of a lot
of rockets, but something is being done to protect us,” she said.
Yuli Edelstein, the Israeli information minister, told the Daily Telegraph
that he had encountered overwhelming support for the Gaza operation. “The
people are saying ‘we are strong and we support you’,” he said. “What
I am hearing is ‘please, don’t let the terrible reality come back to stay.”
Benny Vaknin, the mayor of Ashkelon, told the visiting minister of town’s
relief that the government was responding to a decade of rocket attacks by
Hamas.
“We do everything we can to prevent any damage to the ordinary citizens
of Gaza, but Hamas tries to kill our civilians,” he said.
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