Talk:List of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel in 2008

Death toll
what is the total death tall? can that be given? does it compare to the 300 palestinians the demons killed? Great Gall (talk) 13:32, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
 * No demon attacks were reported in the last 2,000 years afaik. Lastdingo (talk) 17:34, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Can we remove this, seems like propaganda

He may be biased and wishes the information for propaganda purposes, but the total death toll is a useful fact that should be included. Is anybody aware of it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.194.171.129 (talk) 00:05, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I am, and so I made you people aware of the fact it is not on the article's main space. It should be clearly seen because it is perhaps the most important thing. I may have given a biased and innapropriate personal opinion here but I am I not right to assume whatever my reasons may be, the death toll (and number of wounded not to forget) should be clearly stated in the article? Great Gall (talk) 16:18, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * If you have the information, add it. NoCal100 (talk) 16:56, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

I do not have it. But I strongly suggest someone to go and have a look at this: it looks very unprofessional this way. I'll re-add my info: you fill out the blanks. Great Gall (talk) 17:30, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * You've made the request on the Talk page, which is the place for it. This is an encyclopedia, and the article space is not a shopping list - please don't deface it with a 'fill in the blanks' sentence. NoCal100 (talk) 17:37, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
 * From 2001 when the missile attacks started until 27 April 2008, 13 Israelis were killed by Qassam rockets. I think there have been a further five fatal casualties since then but currently can't find a source. 80.176.88.21 (talk) 21:25, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 13 against +600, how come the israelis still take themselves seriously? Now then, go ahead and put the 13 in the lead. No, wait, I'll do that! Great Gall (talk) 10:23, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty sure the 2008 total number of deaths in Israel from rocket and mortar attacks is six so I've amended the opening section to say this. I can understand the temptation to compare this with Palestinian deaths but I don't think it's appropriate or relevant to this article. You might as well pick some other random statistic as a comparison (444 Israelis killed in road accidents in 2008 for example...) 80.176.88.21 (talk) 22:50, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
 * OK... checking a couple of sources and the text of this article, it seems that the body count is eight. There were four killed at the end of December. 80.176.88.21 (talk) 09:27, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

inconsistency
Qassam qassam kassam What's correct? Lastdingo (talk) 17:34, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

To my knowledge the terms are interchangeable due to the fact that we are translating from Arabic. There are also multiple versions of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.194.171.129 (talk) 00:11, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

title
I propose changing the title of this article to "List of rocket, missile and mortar attacks on Israel in 2008". This is a more accurate description of the article as at the moment it does not only feature Qassam attacks but also mortar attacks, general missile attacks, and A Katyusha attack.Directionless (talk) 20:42, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * "Missile" is usually reserved to describe guided rockets, and none of those used in this conflict have been guided. I'd support renaming it to "List of rocket and mortar attacks in Israel in 2008" NoCal100 (talk) 21:34, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Summary of rocket fire and mortar shelling in 2008
English: http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/pdf/ipc_e007.pdf

Hebrew: http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/Hebrew/heb_n/pdf/ipc_007.pdf

Flayer (talk) 06:45, 6 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I've added a graph with the data. I'll do one with the mortar statistics as well. // Liftarn (talk) 09:06, 8 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Thank you. Flayer (talk) 09:00, 9 January 2009 (UTC)
 * No problem. I recommend using http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/ for various graphs (bars, lines, pies et.c.) and save as an SVG. You can create graphs online and download the finished file. // Liftarn (talk) 10:31, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Is there a reciprocal article anywhere (List of rocket and mortar attacks BY Israel in 2008)?
Is there a reciprocal article anywhere (List of rocket and mortar attacks BY Israel in 2008)?

It seems to me that in the interests of neutrality there should be (tho' the list would sadly be rather long!)
 * Johnbibby (talk) 17:12, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

I think on here it's only expected that articles are written from a neutral point of view. This does not mean that any article that might be seen by some to show one side in a conflict in a bad light needs to be balanced by an equal and opposite article about the other side. Neutrality and balance are not the same. However if you want to create an article naming every Palestinian killed by Israeli forces in 2008 please go ahead... it'll be quite a task: there were 225 killed in just one day in December. 80.176.88.21 (talk) 12:12, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

3000 rockets in 2008 or 1700?
The article has the sentence "According to the Israeli military's count on December 27th, 3,000 rockets hit Israel since the beginning of the year." But if you add up the number in the "visual summary" table provided, you get 1704 rockets. Maybe this discrepancy should be explained. Perhaps the number is derived by adding rockets and mortars, or because there have been rockets fired from somewhere other than Gaza. It's unclear from the article.

The graphic table of rockets provides numbers that are inconsistent with the "visual summary" table. For example, table lists January as 136, but graphic as 241; February table 228, graphic 257; March table 103, graphic 196. Most of the numbers fail to match.

The heading of the "visual summary" says "Rockets and Mortars Launched from Gaza May-Nov '08." Yet it provides data from January to December. This may frustrate some readers concerned with accuracy.

There are other inconsistencies. The paragraph describing August lower down in the article lists numbers different from those in the tables at the beginning of the article.

pete212 (talk) 17:29, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Why count rockets in relation to the 6 month window of the cease fire?
From the paragraph on Dec. 19th: "During the six month cease fire 329 rockets and mortar shells were fired."

Counting the rocket attacks against Israel in relation to the six months of cease fire seems to me to be a dubious move for wikipedia. This number comes from the source "The Six Months of the Lull Arrangement," produced by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center.

This number is accurate. But it would also be accurate to write that between the beginning of the cease fire in June, and the Israeli operation against Hamas members on November 4th there were less than two dozen rockets fired.

If one is not reading carefully, it makes it seem that 300 plus rockets where fired over a six month period equally dispersed across those months. In fact, the vast majority of those attacks came after November 4th. We could be accurate and yet still be even more misleading if we said, for example, "3000 rocket and mortar attacks occurred during the year in which Hamas pledged a cease fire." That would also be true. And of course, we could count up the tonnage of munitions dropped on Gaza by Israel from November 4th to December 19th, and write, "during the six month cease fire X tonnes of bombs were dropped on Gaza."

I think this statement should be removed. Also, I don't advocate putting in anything regarding the lull between June 19th, and November 4th. Just provide the numbers in a clear way.

pete212 (talk) 18:14, 15 January 2009 (UTC)


 * Likewise, as I was reading a bit more closely, in the November section there is a reference to rockets being fired between October 29th, and November 6th. This period is arbitrary, and again, reading quickly it is difficult to tell that the rocket attacks on Israel mostly occurred after November 4th.  I think it is important not to obscure this fact.  It's not necessary to highlight it either.  The main issue that picking these arbitrary time periods raises is the possibility of obscuring the actual distribution of rocket attacks against Israel.  I don't think this article needs to highlight the November 4th date, before which there were few rocket attacks, and after which rocket attacks increased dramatically, however, the article should not make this fact hard to see.  pete212 (talk) 03:29, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
 * By the way, I added quotation marks to the sentence which reports on the "operation" on the evening between Nov. 4th and Nov. 5th, because it is verbatim from the I.S.A. report. pete212 (talk) 03:32, 16 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I admit to being confused not just by this question, but by the article itself. How can there have been a cease-fire if there were rockets to count in the first place?? If there are rockets fired, there is no cease fire!!FlaviaR (talk) 06:58, 9 February 2009 (UTC)


 * The term "cease fire" is commonly used to refer to a particular kind of agreement, contract or truce. Normally people don't use the phrase "cease fire" in the way FlaviaR is suggesting.  You could say that if one party to a cease fire does something, say fires a rocket or maintains a blockade, that party has broken the cease fire (obviously, assuming that those actions are in violation of the terms of the agreement).  However, assuming there was some kind of agreement between the two sides to refrain from attacking each other, one still calls this a cease fire.  So, following the normal usage of the phrase "cease fire," there was a cease fire and it was broken.  (Although, as I believe is reflected in my earlier comments, we should be transparent about the violations of the cease fire.  I think the article, as it is, obscures somewhat the order and nature of the violations.)  pete212 (talk) 02:14, 12 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Possibly a minor point - your description of the cease fire is exactly what I meant - i.e., someone breaks it - so, obviously, normally people do mean it the way I mean it :-) FlaviaR (talk) 19:03, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Personal names of the dead
Looking at this article it seems to me that it mostly complies with WP guidelines and policies. However I am concerned that some of the dead are named, making those small sections able to be criticised as a possible memorial. WP:NOTMEMORIAL is important, the more so since this article has been cited in an AfD on a substantially different article as being "deletion fodder" too.

Is there a reason why some names have been left in? And might they be removed? Fiddle Faddle (talk) 00:57, 16 January 2009 (UTC)


 * I disagree with Fiddle Faddle's interpretation of WP:NOTMEMORIAL. Please see User talk:Sandstein --Timeshifter (talk) 23:48, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Restoring NPOV
In line with [Talk] discussions under the umbrella article Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel NPOV needs to be restored in these one-sided articles focussed solely on rocket attacks on Israel, without any context, motivations, response reasons or other balancing data. I will embark on a correction of this unacceptable NPOV imbalance. Erictheenquirer (talk) 09:03, 30 March 2015 (UTC)
 * there does not appear to be any consensus for your desired changes over at Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel, so don't make any changes here, w/o first discussing them AND getting for consensus for them here. All Rows4 (talk) 07:06, 3 April 2015 (UTC)

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