Jeb Hensarling: “more than 4,500 rockets and mortar shells have been fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip by Hamas and other terrorist…”

“more than 4,500 rockets and mortar shells have been fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip by Hamas and other terrorist organizations since Israeli forces withdrew from there in 2005. Nearly 1,000 of these rockets and mortar shells have been launched into Israel just since New Year's Day this year. The near daily rocket fire has been targeted primarily and intentionally at civilian communities in Israel, such as Sderot and Ashkelon, and the rockets being used are getting bigger and traveling farther. Some rockets have blown through living room ceilings, crashed through classrooms and downed power lines. And as a result, Israel has suffered dozens of casualties, hundreds of shock victims, thousands of traumatized children. I've heard from Ruthie Eitan, a professor at Sapir College in Israel, just a mile from the Gaza Strip, who told us how the entire campus lives in constant terror. It would be like any college town in America, except this college has been hit with hundreds of rockets since the year 2000, and the barrage is not stopping. In fact, just last week, one of the students died shortly after sustaining massive wounds to his chest from a rocket in a parking lot on campus. Ruthie tells us that many of Sapir's classrooms and auditoriums are unusable, either because of past rocket damage or from being in the line of future rocket fire. But somehow life attempts to go on.…”