Breaking: Israeli military escalation in Gaza

[Crystal-Clear]

why would Palestinian fire mortars? to get bombed ?
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probably a planted drama .as nobody knows the story of other side.

 

[Falcon29]

why would Palestinian fire mortars? to get bombed ?
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probably a planted drama .as nobody knows the story of other side.

Read the opening post. In short:

Very simple, Gaza is under siege, there have been peaceful demonstrations on the border with the aim of having the siege lifted. Ever since those demonstrations dozens have been killed and thousands injured. Still with that they were slated to continue. Israel didn't want daily demonstrations that bring international attention and started threatening military measures as a means to pressure them from cancelling the daily demonstrations.

In the past few days they have specifically been conducting air strikes and firing artillery shells with intention to kill Palestinian border guards as some 'punishment' for the demonstrations. They killed 3 belonging to one Palestinian party two days ago, and another from Hamas yesterday. They would have continued that policy of intentional targeting killing to quell the demonstrations.

Palestinian factions are responding to those repeated attacks in order to make sure that those demonstrations will continue without threats of military retribution from Israel. Once Israel stops being irrational, the Palestinians will end their response. They have crossed all red lines and if international community can't enforce justice then they will do what they can to protect their peoples rights.

 

[The SC]

 

[Gomig-21]

43.) Israel did not state its commitment as of yet to Egyptian understandings

What an awful situation, and especially during this holy month. I think you're right, this has 2012 written all over it.

 

[The SC]

This:

Is countered by this:

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Over 35 Hamas, PIJ terror targets attacked in Israeli air raids

 

[$@rJen]

why would Palestinian fire mortars? to get bombed ?
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probably a planted drama .as nobody knows the story of other side.

I think Hamas did agree that they fired the shells

Canadian PM: Israel has every right to defend itself
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned the rocket and mortar fire from Gaza.

“Israel has every right to defend itself against these deplorable attacks by the terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Our thoughts are with everyone affected today,” he tweeted.


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Israel has every right to defend itself against these deplorable attacks by the terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Our thoughts are with everyone affected today. https://twitter.com/cafreeland/status/1001523976835919873 …

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[$@rJen]

Gaza’s Hamas rulers say cease-fire reached with Israel

Flames of rockets fired by Palestinian militants are seen over Gaza Strip toward Israeli lands, early Wednesday, May 30, 2018. Palestinian militants bombarded southern Israel with dozens of rockets and mortar shells Tuesday, while Israeli warplanes struck targets throughout the Gaza Strip in the largest flare-up of violence between the sides since a 2014 war. (Hatem Moussa/Associated Press)
By Associated PressMay 30 at 1:40 AM

JERUSALEM — Gaza’s Hamas rulers say they have agreed to a cease-fire with Israel to end the largest flare-up of violence between the sides since a 2014 war.

Khalil al-Haya, a senior Hamas official, says Wednesday that Egyptian mediators intervened “after the resistance succeeded in warding off the aggression.”

He said militant groups in Gaza will commit to the cease-fire as long as Israel does. Israeli Cabinet minister Naftali Bennett told Israel’s Army Radio no agreement has been reached yet.

The Israeli military struck dozens of militant sites in Gaza overnight as rocket fire continued toward southern Israeli communities into early Wednesday morning.

The border area has been tense in recent weeks as Palestinians have held mass protests aimed at lifting an Israeli-Egyptian blockade imposed after Hamas seized power in 2007.

Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed

 

[Falcon29]

Gaza’s Hamas rulers say cease-fire reached with Israel

Nonsense by AP trying to frame the narrative in Israel's favor. Palestinians didn't break any ceasefire, Israel did. Palestinians responded to repeated aggressions and sent their message. No new cease fire was proposed, that would propose an agreement addressing many subjects. Instead there is existing understandings and Palestinian factions said Israel needs to observe them. Israel did not mention to Egypt or any party for that matter that it seeks calm or it will end the daily occurrence of missile/artillery attacks on Gaza.

And there was gunfire today by IDF at another Palestinian watch tower in an attempt to kill. The only party that needs to observe the 2014 understandings is ISRAEL

Instead they are still plotting attacks on Gaza that they want to undertake in coming days.

 

[Solomon2]

Amid respite from Gaza missile attacks, ministers deny Hamas claims of ceasefire
Officials insist no agreement brokered, after factions in the Strip say informal 'consensus' reached to end flareup
By MICHAEL BACHNER and TAMAR PILEGGI Today, 10:09 am

• Intelligence and Transportation Minister Israel Katz attends a Finance committee meeting in the Knesset, February 26, 2018. (Flash90)
  
  
  A senior Israeli minister on Wednesday denied a ceasefire had been reached with Hamas and Islamic Jihad after the worst armed flareup between Israel and Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza since the 2014 war.
  
  “There is no ceasefire,” Intelligence Minister Israel Katz told Israel Radio on Wednesday morning. “Israel maintains a clear policy not to allow fire and terror attacks against Israel.”He spoke amid a respite from rocket and mortar fire from the Gaza Strip.
  
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  Palestinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip said earlier Wednesday morning they were committed to a truce with Israel that they said was reached following extensive mediation efforts by Egypt, after more than 110 rockets and mortars were fired at Israeli communities in under 24 hours by Gaza terrorist groups.
  
  “Israel does not want the situation to deteriorate, but those who started the violence must stop it,” said Katz, a member of the high-level security cabinet. “Israel will make [Hamas] pay for all fire against Israel.
  
  “We see an Iranian fingerprint on Hamas and Hezbollah. This is an escalation, and we will not allow the continued firing at us,” he added. “Everything depends on Hamas now: If they continue, I do not know what their fate will be.”
  
  Education Minister Naftali Bennett also denied reports of a ceasefire.
  
  “We have reached no such understanding, not even an informal one,” he told Army Radio Wednesday morning. “It could just be that the other side is simply no longer interested in escalation.”
  
  
  
  
  Flames from rockets fired by Palestinians are seen over Gaza Strip heading toward Israel , early Wednesday, May 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)
  Bennett, also a member of the security cabinet, said that Israel is not interested in war, but that unlike in the past “we will not allow them to grow stronger at the price of it being quiet.”
  
  Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, however, said Wednesday morning that there was an “understanding” in place between Israel and Hamas.
  
  “I believe there is an indirect understanding with Hamas to end the current round of violence,” Steinitz said, but added that there would always be “some degree of fighting along the Gaza border.”
  
  A reported ceasefire was set to start at midnight Tuesday, but that deadline passed with no signs of a truce as dozens of rockets and mortar shells continued to rain down on Israel.
  
  
  
  
  Hamas’s senior political leader, Khalil al-Hayya in the Egyptian capital Cairo on November 22, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MOHAMED EL-SHAHED)
  The Israeli ministers were responding to remarks by deputy Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya, who earlier announced that a “consensus” had been reached in the Strip to “return to the understandings of the ceasefire” during the night.
  
  In a statement cited by Arab media, Hayya claimed that “the resistance succeeded in repelling the aggression and prevented the changing of rules,” adding that there had been many mediation interventions in the previous hours. He said that Hamas and other “resistance factions” were committed to the ceasefire as long as Israel, too, was committed to it.
  
  The Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which fired many of Tuesday’s mortar shells at Israel, also said it was committed to a ceasefire along the same terms reached following the 2014 Gaza War, known in Israel as Operation Protective Edge.
  
  A spokesperson for the Iran-backed group said the Palestinian groups would abide by the ceasefire as long as Israel does, adding that the understanding was reached following mediation by Egypt.
  
  Senior Israeli officials were quoted by the public broadcaster Kan as saying that while there was no formal ceasefire agreement with Gaza terror groups, there was a mutual understanding that if the rocket and mortar shelling stops, Israel would stop its bombardment of Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets in the Strip.
  
  Tuesday saw at least 70 projectiles launched into Israel from Gaza, prompting dozens of retaliatory strikes by the IDF against targets in the Strip, after weeks of soaring tensions.
  
  
  An Israeli man walks past a kindergarten yard, after mortar shells fired from the Gaza Strip exploded near it, in the southern Israeli Kibbutz of Ein Hashlosha on May 29, 2018. Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired a barrage of mortar shells at southern Israel on Tuesday, the army said, causing no injuries but raising tensions in the border area. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)
  In an early morning mortar shell barrage fired from Gaza into southern Israel, one shell exploded in the yard of a kindergarten shortly before children arrived.
  
  
  
  
  A picture taken from Gaza City on May 29, 2018, shows a smoke billowing in the background following an Israeli air strike on the Palestinian enclave. (AFP PHOTO / THOMAS COEX)
  Thousands of Israelis spent the subsequent night in bomb shelters as terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired some 40 more rockets and mortars at communities near the coastal enclave early Wednesday, with several of them being intercepted by Iron Dome. There were no reports of injuries, but one shell scored a direct hit on an empty house.
  
  The IDF said that rockets and shells were fired at the Eshkol, Sha’ar Hanegev and Sdot Negev regions and that Iron Dome intercepted some of them, while most of the others fell in open areas.
  
  Judah Ari Gross and Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
  

 

[Falcon29]

75.) Israeli army moving armor/other equipment to regions near Gaza :

 

[The SC]

And they say they don't want war!?
They provoke with killing Palestinian border guards.. they get a few mortars in response, they hit the infrastructure of Gaza and now prepare for another invasion.. while all the West is saying is that Usrael has the right to defend itself.. the whole thing sounds staged..to invade Gaza and try to get rid of Hamas who refuses to hand down its weapons..!!!?
This raises a lot of questions on who is staging these events..

 

[Falcon29]

WASHINGTON — US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley castigated the Security Council on Wednesday for failing to collectively condemn rocket attacks on Israel, accusing the international body of bias weeks after another UN panel backed a probe into Israeli actions on the Gaza border.

Kuwait, a non-permanent council member that represents Arab countries, blocked a US-drafted statement at the council meeting Wednesday, arguing that it had presented its own draft resolution that addressed the crisis.

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-blasts-security-council-as-measure-condemning-hamas-blocked/

Nice job Kuwait, appreciated.

And they say they don't want war!?
They provoke with killing Palestinian border guards.. they get a few mortars in response, they hit the infrastructure of Gaza and now prepare for another invasion.. while all the West is saying is that Usrael has the right to defend itself.. the whole thing sounds staged..to invade Gaza and try to get rid of Hamas who refuses to hand down its weapons..!!!?
This raises a lot of questions on who is staging these events..

There is a demonstration planned for 6/5, if they target people with lethal force this time the Palestinian factions will intervene and this time directly target their snipers. Apparently behind the scenes in Knesset meetings they are discussing reoccupying Gaza, who knows what's planned but the factions are on high alert and there is constant drone presence/intelligence efforts by Israel currently to find high profile members to target in assassinations. We will see what will happen in coming days.

In my opinion, however, they can't reoccupy deeper cities within Gaza without committing genocide. And in the event they manage to somehow, the whole population is very frustrated over last 10 years of siege and previous decades of occupation that everyone will make sure their forces go through hell. There would be a dozen plus casualties on a daily basis if not more. It's not like before when the factions numbered several hundred to a few thousand members.

 

[yavar]

 

[Falcon29]

Red Cross sends war surgeons to 'sinking ship' Gaza

GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Committee of the Red Cross is sending two teams of war surgeons to Gaza and setting up a surgical unit in the enclave’s main hospital to treat heavy casualties from clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians.

Since protests on the Gaza-Israel border began on March 30, Israeli troops have killed 115 Palestinians and wounded more than 13,000 people, including 3,600 by live ammunition, Robert Mardini, ICRC’s director for the Near and Middle East, said.

This week also saw the most intense flare-up of hostilities between Palestinian militants and Israel since the 2014 Gaza war.

“The recent demonstrations and violence that took place along the Gaza border since the end of March have triggered a health crisis of unprecedented magnitude in this part of the world,” Mardini told a news conference on Thursday in Geneva.

The ICRC will set up a 50-bed surgical unit at al-Shifa hospital, Gaza’s largest.

“Our priority now clearly is to help gunshot wound victims. Imagine, 1,350 people with complex cases who will need three to five operations each, a total of 4,000 surgeries, half of which will be carried out by ICRC teams,” he said.

“I think such a caseload would overwhelm any health system in the world, including in Geneva.”

The six-month surge of medical expertise, drugs and equipment will speed the long road to recovery and relieve an overwhelmed health care system, he said.

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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...r-surgeons-to-sinking-ship-gaza-idUSKCN1IW0UT

 

[Falcon29]

From demonstrations on Gaza border today: