NGO To Shield Rockets That Entered Israeli Airspace Illegally From Gaza

Activists plan a demonstration later this week near an Iron Dome battery to protest the use of destructive force against the rockets.

Tel Aviv, April 15 – A group of activists aims to assist Palestinian missiles and other projectiles that have escaped the Gaza Strip by traveling in a ballistic arc into the Jewish State, and that face hostility, misunderstanding, and numerous violent efforts to destroy them.

New organization Students United In Compassion for Illegal Destitute Explosives (SUICIDE), based at Tel Aviv University, launched a program this week to identify, locate, contact, and protect the rockets and other explosive projectiles that Hamas and allied terrorist groups fire into Israel. The group urges Israelis to contact them instead of the police or IDF upon discovering such projectiles, or parts of them, via its SUICIDE Hotline. A representative of the organization told journalists that these refugees from miserable Gaza deserve a welcome embrace, not further violence at the hands of sappers.

“We want these poor rockets and artillery shells, but more importantly, Israelis, to know SUICIDE is an option,” insisted Vic Timblamer, a Gender Studies major at TAU. “Shooting at these refugees from Gaza, which is what they are, with Iron Dome or whatever, is just wrong. We are working to get Tel Aviv, and I guess other places in the country, maybe some communities down south, to declare themselves sanctuary cities for rockets from Gaza, where enforcement or military authorities can’t touch them.”

SUICIDE activists plan a demonstration later this week near an Iron Dome battery to protest the use of destructive force against the rockets. “They’re not trying to  hurt anyone,” explained group coordinator Annie Stuma. “This is a country of refugees and immigrants, but so many of us have forgotten what that means. The British couldn’t solve their problems by keeping Jews away from these shores, and it’s no less misguided to do the same to those rockets trying to reach Israel now.”

“Life in Gaza is terrible,” she continued. “If a missile from there manages to escape, how heartless do you have to be to try to blow it up even before it reaches the place it has its heart set on reaching? That’s why we’re going to try to shelter whichever ones we can.”

Critics worry that such efforts will only encourage more cross-border flight of rockets, but SUICIDE dismisses such concerns. “We have a responsibility,” insisted Timblamer. “The right choice is seldom the easy choice. That’s why we’re trying to get SUICIDE into the Israeli consciousness. We need everyone to know SUICIDE is the answer.”

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