Hi, this is Don Kedel with another Israel Report and today I am reporting just along
the Gaza border, just behind me here is Gaza, the Gaza Strip, the northern Gaza Strip,
where the latest bombardment of rocket attacks just into Zdelot over here in front of me
have been taking place and so what's the deal, basically Hamas and all the other terrorist
organizations that are in the Gaza Strip apparently have the war fever, it's been a long time
since the last war in 2014 and apparently I guess they just feel that they just can't
get enough of antagonizing the Israeli nation and the people here living in the south of
Israel and bombarding them with rockets and so in the past three days now there have been
continual rocket fires, firing rockets into Israel just from over here and up there you'll
see there's a, maybe you can see in the background there's a blimp, a security blimp to be able
to survey the area to help keep this border secure with Israel. Unfortunately in response to those
attacks, the Israeli Air Force, when going in and eliminating those threats and those
targets that were firing rockets into Israel, one of our Israeli pilots was actually killed
in the latest airstrikes and that was extremely unfortunate, just as he was landing he had
to make a crash landing apparently from what I understood from the report, I don't have the full
assessment of course with the Israeli military, it'll take quite a while till they do an investigation
as to what took place and why he had to make a crash landing but anyhow unfortunately the pilot
was killed in the crash landing, his co-pilot was able to eject in time so he came out unscathed,
praise God so at least one of them made it, but that was just an unfortunate blow in the attempt
to stop the constant bombardment of rockets right here and the same day as they were firing rockets
into Israel there was a another flotilla attempt into the Gaza Strip from Europe coming, I believe
predominantly with Swedish freedom fighters, freedom activists and it's just unfortunate,
it's so stupid you know these people keep trying to send in flotillas to break the enclosure that
there is on the Gaza Strip from the sea because what we're trying to do as a nation because
people need to understand what we're talking about here is that the Gaza Strip, it's on the shoreline
of the Israeli border and it's not that we're trying to keep the Gaza Strip from receiving aid
or food or shipments from you know wherever in the world, it doesn't matter just like any nation
that is able to receive shipments by sea along their coast, it's completely okay, the only thing
is that unfortunately because this is not a normal nation, this is not a normal country, this is a
terrorist bed land over here, not all the people here, what I'm saying is it's controlled by
terrorists, it's controlled, the leadership are a terrorist organization, they rule the Gaza Strip
with an iron fist and the Gazans are really they're held captive by these thugs and unfortunately
by the European nations, the United States, they're promoted, they're encouraged to continue their
tyrannical reign over the Gazans and so because of that reality that Israel is facing and is up
against and we've allowed them to have the Gaza Strip without military control, without anything
like that, they give them their real sovereign freedom to do whatever they want yet they still
fire rockets into Israel, they still try to dig tunnels just not very far from me, I mean a tunnel
could, there could be a terrorist pop-up anywhere from here and it has happened in the Nachal-O's
community just behind me where terrorists popped up and they attacked the soldiers, okay, so the
reality is this, that they dig tunnels, they fire rockets, they just are constantly committed to the
destruction of the nation of Israel and we have to do what we need to do in order to secure our
border and to secure our nation, so that's the reality and if the people don't like it, if they
don't like that, we have to impose such a sanction of controlling whatever comes in and comes out
to the best of our ability into the Gaza Strip because we don't want them to arm themselves
with with armaments from Iran or any other country that is promoting these terrorists,
that's what we have to do, it is not a complete closure, all it has to do is that any shipment
that comes in, it has to go through our scanning and we spend millions of shekels every year to
supervise, to scan through all of the contents that goes into the Gaza Strip and it can continue on
if it doesn't have any armaments or anything of any weapons of mass destruction to destroy
our nation, so that's the reality of what's going on lately here in Israel, I wanted to
just give you a quick update about that from the front lines here in Israel, again this is
Don Kedah reporting to you from Israel, have a wonderful weekend, Shabbat Shalom from the Land of Israel, goodbye.
