Itongadol.- The mayor of the rocket-battered town of Sderot unleashed a tirade against Defense Minister Moshe Ya\’alon on Friday, just hours after Palestinians in Gaza resumed to bombard the western Negev with rockets and mortars.
Sderot Mayor Alon Davidi told Israel Radio on Friday that Ya\’alon proved to be "a resounding failure in restoring security for Israel\’s citizens."
"Hamas doesn\’t feel that it has been defeated, and it has no fear of the IDF," he said. "It also is not deterred by the IDF."
The Sderot mayor said that the withdrawal of Israeli ground forces from the Gaza Strip sent the wrong message to Hamas.
"The enemy interpreted the IDF\’s leaving the Gaza Strip as a move that wreaks of cowardice," said Davidi, who is a member of the Bayit Yehudi party.