'Twas a whistling weekend in Gaza...

I don't believe that most people appreciate what exactly goes on in Israel on a daily basis. Imagine living through this on a typical day: [Note: All these cities are within a tiny area, just slightly larger than Manhattan Island in New York City.] At 6:00 AM, five mortar shells landed in the Village, followed by six Kassam rockets hitting the Upper West Side just before 8 o'clock, just as people were getting out to go to work. About an hour after the bells ring, two more mortars land on Wall Street, and forty-five minutes after that, another rocket struck Central Park as people take their mid-morning jogs. This was followed a half hour later by four mortars striking Times Square just as the shopping gets going, while another one lands in Washington Heights. Get the picture yet?

Following is a listing of Kassam rocket and mortar shell attacks against Jewish communities in Gaza and the Negev which occurred on Friday and Saturday.
FRIDAY
06:00 – five mortar shells landed in Gush Katif
07:50 – six Kassam rockets landed in Sderot
10:00 – two mortar shells landed in the Gadid hothouses
10:45 – one Kassam rocket landed in the Sderot Cemetery
11:20 – four mortar shells landed in N’vei Dekalim, one striking a home
11:21 – one mortar shell landed in Moshav Gadid
11:51 – one mortar shell landed in Alei Sinai
15:20 – one mortar shell landed near Gadid
16:05 – one mortar shell landed in N’vei Dekalim striking the Azzoun
home
16:45 – three Kassam rockets landed in Sderot
16:47 – two mortar shells landed in N’vei Dekalim hitting the Levine home
16:48 – one mortar shells landed near Erez Crossing
17:30 – one Kassam rocket landed near Gavim Junction in the Negev
17:40 – three mortar shells landed in Atzmona and Rafah Yam
18:00 – one mortar shell landed at Erez Crossing
18:30 – one Kassam rocket landed in an open field near Sderot
18:33 – one mortar shell landed in N’vei Dekalim
18:48 – one mortar shell landed near Netzarim
19:24 – one mortar shell landed near Nisanit
20:20 – three mortar shells landed in Nisanit
21:13 – one mortar shell landed in an army position adjacent to Kibbutz Nahal Oz
22:10 – one mortar shell landed near Atzmona
23:40 – one Kassam rocket landed near Nativ Ha’Asarah in the western Negev
23:41 – one Kassam rocket landed near Nativ Ha’Asarah in the western Negev
23:45 – one mortar shell landed near Kfar Darom
SATURDAY
01:36 – one mortar shell landed in Kfar Darom
01:38 – one mortar shell landed in Muwasi area of Gush Katif
02:00 – one mortar shell landed in Ganei Tal
02:37 – one mortar shell landed near Tel Katifa
02:57 – one mortar shell landed near Rafiah Yam
02:57 – one mortar shell landed near Atzmona
03:00 – two Kassam rockets landed in Sderot damaging a community pool
04:15 – two Kassam rockets landed near Nahal Oz
07:20 – two Kassam rockets landed in Sderot. 4 persons treated for hysteria
08:05 – three mortar shells landed in Netzarim hothouses
10:47 – one Kassam rocket landed near Kibbutz Or HaNer in Negev
13:30 – one mortar shell landed near Netzarim
15:45 – two Kassam rockets landed in Sderot. Hysteria victims
19:30 – a Kassam rocket landed in Kibbutz Miflasim in the Negev
19:40 – two mortar shells landed in Nisanit. 2 lightly injured – 11 hysteria victims
22:42 – one Kassam rocket landed in Sderot

That comes out to about 44 mortars and 24 Kassam rockets in about 40 hours, or an average of a mortar every 55 minutes, and a Kassam rocket every hour and 40 minutes. And this is during a "cease-fire" - as Bill Cosby would say, "Riiiiiiiiiight..."