Yom Chamishee
Thursday
2 Sivan 5781
May 13 2021
The War Rages On . . . Continuous Updates
UPDATES 11:00 PM
2100 missiles have now been fired at southern and central Israel.
In the last hour, there was another massive 100+ missile barrage on Ashdod and surrounding towns.
Beersheva was hit with with a 130 missile barrage between 6:00-7:00 pm.
The missiles that struck Ashkelon and Sderot at 6:00 pm were Bader 3 quarter-ton rockets.
Worrisome:
In the last hour, 3 missiles launches from Lebanon have been identified: apparently, two landed in the Mediterranean, one by the Kineret.
Arab-Israeli violence:
An Egged bus was attacked in Haifa. Passengers managed to get off safely.
Another synagogue in Lod has been set ablaze. On Pinkas St in Lod, Arab-Israelis opened fire on Jews.
The city of Arad is blockaded 0n all sides.
Huge political change:
Naftali Bennett, who was on the verge of making a coalition government with Yair Lapid 4 days ago before the war started, announced this evening that he will try to form a coalition with PM Netanyahu instead.
UPDATES 6:00 PM
A quote from Gaza Division Commander Nimrod Aloni to his fighters this morning: “We did not ask for this campaign. We will carry out our mission with joy, passion, and kill the enemy.”
If anything, the fighting has intensified since our last update. Officially, 1,533 missiles have now been fired at central and southern Israel. The actual number, as reported by residents, is closer to 1900.
Numerous barrages have occurred throughout the day at the Gush Dan area, Ashkelon, Beersheva, Sderot and surrounding communities.
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Hamas has begun attacking Israeli border communities with “heavy” mortar shells.
The death toll remains at 7 Israelis.
Israel has begun using precision guided GBU-39 bombs. Just a few minutes ago, it was reported by the commander of our Gaza Division that a bomb blew up a tunnel with 20 terrorists inside.
The Israeli Air Force has struck more than 700 targets in Palestinian Gaza.
The IDF reports that more than 60 terrorists have been killed.
Israel has rejected another Egyptian peace initiative.
A Hamas missile scored a direct hit on a kindergarten in a community (unnamed) beside Gaza. Fortunately all of the children were in a bomb shelter and escaped physical injury.
UPDATES 3:00 AM
The hours roll by with all of southern Israel in bomb shelters–and the missiles keep falling. The last three hours have seen missile barrages in central and southern Israel and as far north as Gush Dan–and the Jezreel Valley for the first time.
–there was a direct hit on a house in Petah Tikva (5 wounded)
The home in Petah Tikva that was just hit.
–there were other direct hits in Moshav Sde Uziyahu and Holon among other places:
Part of the missile that hit the house in Holon. Definitely larger than a Grad.
UPDATES 12:00 AM Midnight
Wednesday has become Thursday in Israel. Here is the latest as the war rages on:
180 more missiles were fired at southern Israel during yesterday afternoon and evening bringing to 1450 the total number fired. Again, most of the missiles were aimed at the Sderot area and Ashkelon.
Ido Avigail, a 6-year-old boy in Sderot, was killed this afternoon when a piece of shrapnel from missile blast flew through an open window in his family’s bomb shelter. His mother is in critical condition.
Ido Avigail. May his memory always be for a blessing.
The Tamar offshore gas platform has been shut down due to attempts by terrorists to hit it with missiles.
Lod is now under curfew following violence in the city. Many Arab-Israeli majority cities are now reporting Arab on Jew, and Jew on Arab violence. A number of victims are in critical condition at various hospitals.
There has been a shooting attack at the Shechem Bypass Road. A Palestinian terrorist opened fire on soldiers wounding two. He was subsequently killed by return fire.
A Palestinian terrorist stabbed a Jew in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem.
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.