At Least 40 Rockets Fired Between 8 and 9 P.M.; False Aalarms in Jerusalem, Center of Country; Israel-Yisrael Calls up 1,500 Reservists; Security Cabinet Orders Phased Escalation!!
(A Song of degrees.)
“I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.My help cometh from the LORD, which made Heaven and Earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD is thy Keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy Right Hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.” ( Psalm 121 KJV )!!
The drumbeats of war are sounding again as Israel prepares for a major Gaza offensive after receiving non-stop rocket fire from Hamas all day Monday. The Times of Israel reports that Hamas fired more than 60 rockets into Israel between 8 and 9 p.m., to a range of some kilometers — including Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gan Yavneh, and the outskirts of Beit Shemesh.

( Israeli soldiers stand next to Merkava tanks positioned on the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip on July 7, 2014. ( photo credit: AFP/JACK GUEZ )
IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said the military had called up 1,500 reserves troops, mostly from the Home Front Command and Iron Dome air defense crews, and deployed two additional conscripted infantry brigades, Paratroops and Givati, to the border with the Palestinian enclave Monday.

( The aftermath of an Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip, file photo (Photo credit: Abed Rahim Katib/Flash90 )