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Times of Israel: Hamas will never change. Sooner or later, it must be faced down, by David Horovitz

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In the space of little more than an hour from about 4:30 on Monday afternoon, Hamas and other Gaza terror groups fired more than 100 rockets into southern Israel. The fire was so intensive that it took long minutes before a young Israeli soldier, seriously injured by a Kornet guided anti-tank missile fired at a bus near the border, could be safely evacuated to the hospital.

As darkness fell, the rocket fire continued — and penetrated deeper into Israel. Alarms sounded in Ashkelon, and a home sustained a direct hit; the mayor of Beersheba ordered his city’s bomb shelters opened as rockets began to fall near his city too. In the border town of Sderot, badly battered as so often before, one resident wailed late Monday afternoon in an Army Radio interview that “it’s a real war zone here.”

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