Eshkol Regional Council, Israel, March 13 – The dozens of rockets launched from the Gaza Strip since yesterday have told PreOccupiedTerritory that they are trying to escape the clutches of Gaza militants.
More than 60 rockets have attempted to escape the Gaza Strip since Wednesday afternoon. The Kassams, as they are known, have grown so desperate to leave that they face almost certain injury, if not complete dismemberment, in the attempt. The border is closed to the flow of military goods, meaning that the rockets have no choice but to launch themselves several kilometers through the air. Several have been intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome short-range antimissile system when their trajectories put large concentrations of civilians in peril, but even some missiles attempting to reach towns, such as Sderot, made it through.
An unknown number of rockets have failed to launch properly; analysts put the figure at anywhere from 30 to 80 percent. Those that fail are condemned to remain within the confines of the Gaza Strip in perpetuity, but the attempt to leave by air is the only available avenue out.
Last week Israel’s navy rescued a shipment of Syrian-manufactured missiles being sent by Iran to the Gaza Strip via Sudan. The hundreds of missiles and other armaments were taken to Israel’s southern port of Eilat, where Israeli officials arranged for foreign military attaches and dignitaries to meet the missiles and to discuss the tens of thousands of others desperate to escape the regimes of Iran, Syria, Hamas, and Hezbollah.
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