I'm pretty sure of it....

Technically, the terrorists could fire from rihgt next to the crater. It does send a message, but the negative publicity is not helpful. Either way, that is a pretty impressive shot. Kept it in the center circle.

like everyone else that gives money to the palestinians.

Israel should pay. This was the most ridiculus thing IDF ever did. What is Israel trying to prove. Itr is a sign of weekness. Ok Bravo F16 can hit a soccer field right in the middle..Bravo IDF.....what a shity mentality

The real problem is not actually the bonehead who did this "very successful shot" in the center of a football pitch, as a show off of his "abilities", but the large number of boneheads here who stand in the raw to compliment him and his superiors for the "great effort"... Amazing, just shows the new low Israeli moral is sinking to...

Hitting a soccer field right in the middle, HILLARIOUS!

Palestinian rallies regularly include speakers calling for the slaughter of the Jews and encouraging qassams and suicide bombings (i.e. encouraging young people to go blow themselves up in order to kill a few shoppers or dancers or doctors). If this were just a football pitch, it would be one thing. It's not. Isn't this a brainwashing and hate-building pitch too?

If Israeli moral is "Sinking" then what is "Palestinian" moral, nonexistent?

MAybe if Palestinians would use the field to play soccer, then the IDF would not fire on it, but no, you use it to fire qassams into Israel or did that fact escape your tiny little brains??? Also, stop using abulances to transport weapons, stop teaching children to blow thewmselves up, stop all these things and the IDF will not have to Show off anymore. Your arguments are so baseless and you always fail to answer the real question...when will Palestinians stop being terrorists???

Was the IDF trying to kill unwanted weeds on the soccer field with that well-placed shot?

I just found the article below on National Review Online. Prepare to be furious. http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/gross200604111309.asp

April 11, 2006, 1:11 p.m. Football Killing Fields Outrage and disbelief as world soccer body condemns Israel, not Hamas. By Tom Gross Israel is used to being singled out for unjust criticism and subjected to startling double standards by the United Nations, the European Union, much of the Western media and numerous academic bodies. But now FIFA, the supposedly nonpolitical organization that governs the world's most popular sport, soccer, is getting in on the act as well. FIFA has condemned Israel for an air strike on an empty soccer field in the Gaza Strip that was used for training exercises by Islamic Jihad and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. This strike did not cause any injuries. But at the same time FIFA has refused to condemn a Palestinian rocket attack on an Israeli soccer field last week which did cause injuries. With the soccer World Cup, which takes place only once every four years, just weeks away, it is a time of mounting emotion for the hundreds of millions of people across the globe who passionately follow the game. As FIFA meets in the next few days to decide what action to take against Israel, the double standards involved could not be more obvious. Up to now FIFA, which sees itself as a purely sporting body, has gone out of its way to avoid politics, and has refrained from criticizing even the most appalling human-rights abuses connected to soccer players and stadiums.

NOT A WORD ABOUT SADDAM AND THE TALIBAN When Saddam Hussein's son Uday had Iraqi soccer players tortured in 1997 after they failed to qualify for the 1998 FIFA World Cup Finals in France, FIFA remained silent. Uday, who was chairman of the Iraqi soccer association, had star players tortured again in 1998. And in 2000, following a quarterfinal defeat in the Asia Cup, three Iraqi players were whipped and beaten for three days by Uday's bodyguards. The torture took place at the Iraqi Olympic Committee headquarters, but FIFA said nothing. Again, FIFA simply looked the other way while the Taliban used U.N.-funded soccer fields to slaughter and flog hundreds of innocent people who had supposedly violated sharia law in front of crowds of thousands chanting "God is great." (Afghan soccer coach Habib Ullahniazi said that as many as 30 people were executed in the middle of the field during the intermissions of a single soccer match at Kabul's Ghazi Stadium.) FIFA equally failed to speak out when soccer stadiums in Argentina were turned into jails. AND CHILE AND CHECHNYA FIFA's silence was no less deafening when, according to the International Red Cross, about 7,000 prisoners were detained (and some tortured) in Chile's national soccer stadium after Augusto Pinochet seized power in 1973. Nor did the organization threaten Russia with sanctions after Chechen president Akhmad Kadyrov was murdered by a bomb explosion at Grozny's Dynamo stadium. As for the Middle East, FIFA refused to criticize the decision to name a Palestinian soccer tournament after a suicide terrorist who murdered 31 people at a Passover celebration at the Park Hotel in Netanya in 2002. (At the tournament, organized under Yasser Arafat's auspices in 2003, the brother of the suicide bomber was given the honorary role of distributing the trophies to the winning team.) FIFA also failed to condemn the suicide bomb at the Maxim restaurant in Haifa in October 2003 which injured three officials from the leading Israeli soccer team Maccabi Haifa.

ISRAEL IS DIFFERENT... But then last week, FIFA finally found a target worthy of its outrage, and leapt into action. That target was Israel. The international governing body for soccer condemned the Jewish state, and announced that it was considering possible action over the Israeli air strike last week on the Gaza soccer field that had been used for terrorist training exercises. The field, which had also reportedly served as a missile launching pad, was empty at the time; the strike itself came in response to the continuing barrage of Qassam rocket attacks directed at Israeli towns and villages. Only a couple of days earlier, one of those Qassam rockets landed on a soccer field at the Karmiya kibbutz in southern Israel, causing light injuries to one person. Several other Israeli children and adults needed to be treated for shock. The attack was claimed by the Al-Quds brigades, an armed wing of Islamic Jihad. The soccer pitch is regularly used by children and it was only a matter of luck that there were not greater injuries. (Since Israel's withdrawal from Gaza last year, several members of the kibbutz, including a ten-month-old baby, have been wounded after their homes took direct hits from Qassams. Israelis elsewhere have died after being hit by these weapons.) ...

A BLIND EYE TO DUBAI Meanwhile FIFA (and other sporting bodies) continually turn a blind eye to boycotts of Israeli sportsmen. In February, Tal Ben Haim ג€” the Israeli national soccer team captain, who plays his club soccer for the English Premiership team Bolton Wanderers --was banned from joining his Bolton teammates for their training matches in Dubai. FIFA pointedly ignored this. So did Bolton despite the fact that the team claims to be among the leaders of the campaign to "Kick racism out of football" in the U.K. Only last week, another English club, West Ham, left their two Israeli players, Yossi Benayoun and Yaniv Katan, at home when they went to Dubai. FIFA naturally had nothing to say. Whilst Israel is often slandered as an "apartheid state," (despite having several Arabs playing in its national team), Dubai has received no criticism for what appears to be a clear "apartheid" policy. Indeed, were Israel allowed to compete against other Asian teams for a World Cup berth, rather than against the likes of England and France, the relatively strong Israeli team would most probably have been able to qualify for this year's World Cup. RONALDINHO AIDS TERROR VICTIMS Not all is rotten in world soccer. Some individuals still seem to know right from wrong. Last week, Ronaldinho, the Brazilian superstar widely regarded as the best current player in the world, donated signed footballs and shirts to Israeli child suicide bomb survivors, saying he hoped his gifts would "warm the hearts of the children who have suffered so much." But FIFA, meanwhile, apparently thinks it is acceptable for Palestinian terror groups to continue targeting such Israeli children, firing missiles from the Gaza Strip, even though Israel has left the area. Tom Gross is the former Jerusalem correspondent for the London Sunday Telegraph and New York Daily News. Among his previous pieces for NRO is "Jeningrad".)

you guys r bunch idiots,why dont we leave them alone.and stop doing things to them.like bomb their stadium.like thats stupid. i have one thing to say and thats palastinian people cant live without us and we cant live without them. we both have to work togother like it was in the 1998 and etc. but the problem was after the isreali PM wanted to make fire by trying to enter the dome of the rock. like you know its a mosque,and you know on friday lots of people go pray, and you also know that the afternoon time to pray is the most time you well find people there.so he decided to try to enter and make fire and a conflict. like seriously cant we leave them alone. we do more things to them than what they do to us

MAybe if Palestinians would use the field to play soccer, then the IDF would not fire on it, but no, you use it to fire qassams into Israel or did that fact escape your tiny little brains??? Also, stop using abulances to transport weapons, stop teaching children to blow thewmselves up, stop all these things and the IDF will not have to Show off anymore. Your arguments are so baseless and you always fail to answer the real question...when will Palestinians stop being terrorists??? my reply to you is, there littel terrorists and were big ones, but we never show it on our tv in what we do to them, open your eyes more. we demolish buildings,occupy their land,kill their people,and take down their trees like olives, and make them have the shitiest life in the world. there not terrorists man, by going to telaviv or anywhere to bomb. thats fighting agianst what were doing to them and thats the only way for them to fight against us. they got no weapons,heilocopters,f16,tanks. they only got like a couple of qassam bombs, and they r not very power full at all. we are pushing them of doing bombings, like look 2 or 3 days ago, we killed how many 5 people and a child,,,and a week ago,we killed another 4 people. at that point they are pushed of doing bombings,,,,,to what so called as palastinians being terrorists