Elder of Ziyon Daily News

Gaza power plant shuts down for third time
Terrorist rocket hits house. In Gaza.
Nice IDF shooting: 16 terrorists killed, zero civilians (updated x2)

Gaza power plant shuts down for third time

Posted: 10 Mar 2012 08:45 PM PST

The Gaza Strip's sole power plant shut down on Saturday for the third time in a month due to a shortage of fuel, the territory's energy authority said.

The plant, which supplies close to a third of the electricity in the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip, shut down on February 14 because of an interruption in the supply of fuel to the territory. Operations resumed partially on February 21.

"Means must be found to ensure that enough fuel supplies reach the power station in order to ease the hardships of the Palestinian people," the energy authority statement read.

In February, the Hamas rulers of Gaza announced they had reached a "comprehensive agreement" with Egypt to permanently end the electricity crisis in Gaza, in a three-stage deal that would include increased fuel and electricity deliveries. Before the deal was announced, Egypt had already said it would provide an extra 22 megawatts of electricity to the Gaza Strip.

I reported on Friday that Egypt is still insisting to transfer fuel through existing pipelines in Kerem Shalom, but Hamas is refusing because it would miss out on tax revenue.

The question is, how long will it be before Egypt publicly calls out Hamas for creating and prolonging this crisis? Hamas is betting that the new Egyptian government will not criticize it and appear to support Israel, but Hamas' continued emotional blackmail of Egypt has got to be wearing thin.

Terrorist rocket hits house. In Gaza.

Posted: 10 Mar 2012 06:32 PM PST

Gaza's NGO Safety Office SMS alerts service says:

03/10/2012

11:30

10 Mar, 1130hrs: Pal. ops fired 1 HMR from Al Maghazi Camp, MA, towards Israel, but the rocket dropped short and hit a Pal. house E of Al Maghazi.

03/10/2012

17:00

10 Mar, 1700hrs: Pal. ops. fired 1 rocket from Shujaiyeh, GC, but the rocket exploded prematurely.

03/10/2012

17:30

10 Mar, 1730hrs: Pal. ops fired 3 HMRs from E of Beit Lahiya. 1 of the rockets exploded prematurely, while the other 2 landed in Israel.

From what I can tell, the terror groups seem to take credit for the rockets that explode early as well.

Islamic Jihad lists 41 Grads, 20 Qassam-style rockets, 3 "107" missiles and 6 mortars fired. The PRC doesn't have a grand total but it seems to be taking credit for about 30 rockets and 17 mortars.

Nice IDF shooting: 16 terrorists killed, zero civilians (updated x2)

Posted: 10 Mar 2012 04:59 PM PST

Israel has endured some 100 rockets today, and the IDF targeted the rocket launchers and their leaders.

Thanks to Challah Hu Akbar, we see that every single person killed by the IDF since Friday was a terrorist:

Popular Resistance Committees:

Islamic Jihad terrorists killed

Ahmed Hanani

Zuhir al-Qaisi

Mahdi Abu Shawish

Mansour Kamal Abu Nuseira

Hussein Barham Al-Breim
Ahmed Deeb Salem

Islamic Jihad:

Mahmoud Najim

Even more impressive, many of these were killed in urban areas.

This is the most difficult kind of fighting, and the IDF has proven to be better than any army in the world at targeting terrorists from the air.

Meanwhile, apropos to an earlier posting where I discussed how Palestinian Arabs act like toddlers who love to gain attention, the Islamic Jihad newspaper Palestine Today is proudly showing video of Israelis hearing Code Red alerts in Ashdod:

This makes them happy, because even though their rockets didn't kill anyone, they made their enemies take notice and react. This is a source of pride!

Any attention is good attention when you have the emotional maturity of a five year old.

Meanwhile, EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said, "I very much deplore the loss of civilian life. It is essential to avoid further escalation and I urge all sides to re-establish calm." Since there has not been a single civilian death, Ashton is showing that she makes statements without even bothering to check out the simplest facts.

The more obvious liars at the Arab League called this a "massacre."

Here's video of one of the IDF's airstrikes: