Though it's beginning to sound like one. A terribly sick joke.
Although hundreds of armored vehicles and tanks were positioned ready to invade the Gaza Strip, the IDF on Sunday kept up its policy of extremely limited but pinpoint strikes at Palestinian terrorists, killing two.
But it was unable to prevent another day of heavy mortar shell and Kassam rocket strikes on Jewish settlements and cities in the south. At least five people were wounded, two seriously, by the Palestinian mortar and rocket attacks. The IDF tallied a total of 21 mortar rounds and six Kassam rockets fired by the Palestinians on Sunday.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon reiterated his instructions to the security forces at the cabinet meeting Sunday to take "all measures, without restrictions" to halt terrorism. At the same time, the government agreed to give Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas "one more chance" to clamp down on terror on his own.
"We cannot in any way allow this situation to continue," Sharon declared. "We are very much interested in reaching a political settlement, but it is entirely clear that this is impossible while such terrorism rages along our borders."
Right.
Update: (same URL)
A foreign worker was lightly wounded on Monday evening by a mortar shell which hit the Gaza Strip settlement of Gadid.
The worker was receiving medical treatment at the site, Channel 2 repoted.
The hundreds of armored vehicles and tanks positioned ready to invade the Gaza Strip were unable to prevent further attacks on Israeli settlements.
On Monday morning, six mortars were fired at Israeli settlements and an IDF post in the Gaza Strip, Army Radio reported.
Overnight Sunday, five mortars and two Kassam rockets landed in Gaza Strip settlements and the western Negev.
Abbas obviously hasn't used up his "last chance" yet. Meanwhile...
