Word: mortaring
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...route from Lebanon to Gaza on Monday. Israeli authorities said the vessel contained rocket-propelled grenades and Katyusha rockets, the artillery-of-choice of Hezbollah. The Iran-backed Lebanese militia which has periodically acted as a Syrian proxy has formed Palestinian cells in Gaza, which have been behind the mortar attacks on Israeli settlements in that territory. If the rockets intercepted by the Israelis were indeed sent by Hezbollah - which may provoke a sharp Israeli response directed at Syrian targets in Lebanon - that may simply add to the reasons why Pope John Paul II's pleas for Israeli-Syria peace...
...Crimson editorial published May 2, 2001, “Powell Strong, But Not Enough,” mentioned mortar attacks on Israeli “settlements.” The area attacked was in fact a town within Israel’s pre-1967 borders. The Crimson regrets the error...
...when questioning what concrete and verifiable steps Arafat would be required to make to reduce violence. Arafat's political authority in the West Bank and Gaza is clearly not what it was even a year ago, when no one dared publicly question his orders - recently, his calls to halt mortar attacks and to disband local committees coordinating armed activities between Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and his own Fatah movement have not only been ignored, they've been openly challenged. He may be reluctant to risk further diminishing his power by trying to rein in Palestinian militants in the absence...
...crises of this sort. The fighting that has been smouldering over the past months threatened to erupt into more wide spread violence when detachments of the Israeli Army occupied portions of the Gaza strip almost two weeks ago. The aggressive movements by the Israelis came in response to mortar attacks fired against Israeli settlements from the Gaza region...
...starters, the Israelis want to know the details of just what "concrete steps" Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Administration would be required to take to stop attacks on Israelis. And it?s a fair question: Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah, which have been in the forefront of recent Palestinian mortar and bombing attacks on Israelis are not answerable to Arafat, and they've made it abundantly clear they have no interest in observing any cease-fire agreement. Even more alarming, though, may be the open defiance of Arafat being displayed by his own Fatah movement, whose armed Tanzim militiamen have fought...