The prime minister warned, "That would allow Hamas to achieve its promise of carrying out massacres, rapes, and kidnappings again and again."

The Eshkol Regional Council stated: "A short while ago, a barrage of rockets was fired towards the Kerem Shalom area. Several rockets exploded in an open area and there are injuries on site. The injured are not residents of the council and we pray for their well-being."

Western editorialists were fiercely anti-Israel 35 years ago too, as shown by a collection of Canadian editorial cartoons from the First Intifada.

As the sacred day cloaks us, the memory intensifies and floods our days and dreams, touches our eternal fears, gods rise up to us from the depths of our souls, from the celebrations of our joys, from casual utterances of "good morning" and from the embrace of children at their departure, carrying the bags in which we invested our worries and the beating of our hearts.

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