Israeli special forces invade Gaza, 6 Palestinians and 1 Israeli soldier killed

[Falcon29]

Damage caused by Palestinian rocket in Ashkelon minutes ago:

Aoa




How true is this?

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Came from unreliable smaller Israeli media outlets, most likely not true.

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IDF infrastructure across border targeted by mortar fire moments ago:

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Israeli is ignoring all parties, and there is no ceasefire. Palestinians decreased scope of retaliatory fire and so did Israeli's to an extent. Now it depends on Israeli Cabinet meeting results which have not ended since 9AM(Israeli time). It's 3:30 PM in Israel.

Palestinian factions will cease fire if Israel acknowledges and accepts it destroyed the ceasefire with this assassination and killing of 7 Palestinians two days ago and stops it attacks right now.

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Breaking: Israeli shelling hits a watch tower on eastern Gaza border

Breaking: Injuries reported in previous Israeli strike(it was a drone strike) in Deir Al Balah

Breaking: Retaliatory fire at source of Israeli shelling:

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Breaking: Another Israeli air strike in Deir Al Balah

 

[BHarwana]

Finally some good news.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1062341240417669121

 

[Falcon29]

Breaking: Israeli drone strike hits group of individuals in Northern Gaza, injuring all of them

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Two Palestinians have been killed, one other critically injured. They are likely Palestinian soldiers.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1062346149519089664

Finally some good news.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1062341240417669121

These reports are false, Israeli strikes have been ongoing all morning. All Palestinian officials denied there was any cease fire reached. Simply because Israel is ignoring Egypt/UN and no ceasefire can occur without Israel agreeing to cease fire. If it doesn't, it will attack in near future.

These reports are simply trying to put blame on Palestinians for breaking a fake and nonexistent ceasefire. There was no ceasefire reached in first place. Israel refuses to acknowledge it is responsible for the escalation and refuses to end it(by informing Egypt and UN).

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Breaking: Israeli Cabinet meeting has ended after 6 hours, no details released to public yet.

Breaking: Death toll raised to 2 in recent Israeli drone strike in Northern Gaza

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1062347744835186689

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Report: Palestinian Security source to Quds Press; the special force incursion was to plant spying equipment inside Gaza

 

[Test7]

in the past the adolf was cruel , Jews were innocent. Now the Jews are cruel ... but time changes, roles change..

 

[Falcon29]

Palestinian security source to Palestinian media:

The Israeli intelligence mission is still active and most likely there are special forces still inside Gaza

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Let's hope they are captured long time ago and slowly releasing the information out.

 

[BHarwana]

Yes no cease fire has been achieved the battle is still on going.

 

[Falcon29]

Yes no cease fire has been achieved the battle is still on going.

Israel Hayom: The Israeli Cabinet has agreed upon continuation of strikes against Hamas but without leading to ground war

Palestinian official: Egyptian efforts to secure cease fire are still ongoing

Breaking: Israeli warning missile hits house in eastern Gaza, family has evacuated the home, unclear if jets will strike the home yet

Breaking: Israeli air strikes hits agricultural land in central Gaza

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1062356271691644928

https://twitter.com/x/status/1062356148085493766

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Breaking: Sirens in Hof Ashkelon

Breaking: Israeli warship off coast of Gaza fires shots towards the beach area

Breaking: Israeli air strikes hits motorcycle in southern Gaza, 3 Palestinians reported injured

 

[Solomon2]

Massive Missile Attack on Israel after Qatar Funds Hamas
by Bassam Tawil
November 13, 2018 at 5:00 am

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/13297/hamas-missiles-qatari-money

• The renewed Hamas attacks on Israel serve as a reminder that the terrorist group is not interested in a real truce. Hamas wants millions of dollars paid to its employees so that it can continue to prepare for war with Israel while not having to worry about the welfare of its people.
  
• Qatar's $15 million cash grant has failed to stop Hamas from launching hundreds of rockets into Israel. On the contrary, the money has only emboldened Hamas and increased its appetite to continue its jihad to eliminate Israel. All the money in the world will not convince Hamas to abandon its ideology or soften its position toward Israel.
  
• What the international mediators need to understand is that there is only one solution to the crisis in the Gaza Strip: removing Hamas from power and destroying its military capabilities. They also need to understand that there is only one language that Hamas understands: the language of force. The assumption that if you pay terrorists millions of dollars, they will stop attacking you -- rather than using the funds to build up their forces -- has proven to be false.
  

A bus burns near Kfar Aza, Israel, on November 12, 2018, after being hit by an anti-tank guided missile fired by Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip. (Image source: Hamas video screenshot)


Last week, as efforts were underway to achieve a new truce between Hamas and Israel, this author asked a legitimate and straightforward question: Can Hamas be trusted?

The conclusion was that a real truce between Israel and Hamas can be achieved only after the Palestinian jihadi terrorists are removed from power, and not rewarded for violence and threats.

Days later, Hamas itself provided proof as to why it cannot be trusted with any deal, including a truce.

Since yesterday, Hamas and its allies in the Gaza Strip have been firing hundreds of rockets into Israel. The current barrage began hours after Hamas terrorists attacked Israeli commandos inside the Gaza Strip, killing an Israeli officer and moderately wounding a soldier. In response, the Israeli army killed seven terrorists, including a top Hamas military commander -- Sheikh Nur Baraka.

The Israeli commando unit was not inside the Gaza Strip to kill or kidnap anyone. They were there as part of a routine covert operation to foil terrorist attacks by Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups. The commandos, all the same, were attacked by Hamas terrorists who did try to kill or kidnap some of them. The soldiers of the elite Israeli unit managed to return to Israel under the cover of Israeli airstrikes called in to aid their exfiltration.

What is clear is that it was Hamas, not Israel, that initiated the armed clash with the Israeli force. It was Hamas that attacked the Israeli soldiers, killed the officer, and then rushed to accuse Israel of launching a "new aggression" against the Gaza Strip. When the Israeli soldiers tried to defend themselves and killed seven terrorists with return fire, Hamas accused Israel of committing a "despicable crime" against Palestinians.

It is worth noting that the Hamas attack on the Israeli commandos came hours after a Qatari envoy left the Gaza Strip. The Qatari official, Mohammed El-Amadi, had arrived in the Gaza Strip last week carrying suitcases stuffed with $15 million in cash. The money was delivered to Hamas leaders so that they could pay salaries to thousands of their employees in the Gaza Strip. The Qatari financial grant was delivered to the Gaza Strip with Israel's approval. The Qatari envoy even entered the Gaza Strip through Israel's Erez border crossing.

Why did Israel facilitate the transfer of the Qatari cash to the Gaza Strip? Israel has been -- and still is -- trying to avoid an all-out war with Hamas.

Israel is not afraid of Hamas. Israel simply does not want the Palestinian civilians living under Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip to pay another heavy price for the foolish acts of their leaders. Israel, in fact, has repeatedly expressed a desire to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinians there.

In recent years, Israel has been actively working to support reconstruction efforts in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli measures include the upgrading of the border crossings between Israel and Gaza to more than 800 truckloads of building materials and other goods to enter Gaza on a daily basis, and facilitating the passage of more than 3.4 million tons of materials into Gaza since the 2014 war between Israel and Hamas.

Earlier this year, Israel presented to the EU, US, UN, and the World Bank various projects that were approved by the Israeli government to develop infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, promote energy solutions and create employment opportunities for the Palestinians there.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended last week's deal with Qatar by saying it was aimed at preventing a "humanitarian crisis" in the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu said that he would do "whatever I can" to keep Israelis living in communities adjacent to the border with Gaza safe, while at the same time working to prevent a humanitarian crisis.

Hamas took Qatar's $15 million cash grant, paid its employees, and days later has resumed its terrorist attacks against Israel.

This is Hamas's way of saying thank you to the Qataris and Israelis who have been working hard to reach a truce in the Gaza Strip and avoid another war -- one that is likely to cause more suffering to the two million Palestinians living there.

Hamas has clearly interpreted the goodwill gesture of Israel and Qatar as a sign of weakness. Hamas leaders have even gone on the record as saying that the $15 million grant was the "fruit" of the weekly violent riots that it has been organizing along the border with Israel since March. Shortly after the Qatari envoy delivered the grant to the Gaza Strip, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum used those very words: he boasted that the Palestinians were finally reaping the fruits of their violent protests along the Gaza-Israel border.

Hamas's stance is reminiscent of its reaction to the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005. Then, Hamas and other Palestinians also interpreted the Israeli "disengagement" from the Gaza Strip -- intended to give Gaza the chance to become a Singapore on the Mediterranean -- as a sign of Israeli weakness and retreat.

A few months later, Hamas even won the 2006 Palestinian parliamentary election-- largely because it claimed that it had forced Israel to pull out of the Gaza Strip by conducting suicide bombings and rocket attacks. Hamas told Palestinians back then: vote for us because we drove the Jews out of the Gaza Strip through the armed struggle.

The renewed Hamas attacks on Israel serve as a reminder that the terrorist group is not interested in a real truce. Hamas wants millions of dollars paid to its employees so that it can continue to prepare for war with Israel while not having to worry about the welfare of its people.

Qatar's $15 million cash grant has failed to stop Hamas from launching hundreds of rockets into Israel. On the contrary, the money has only emboldened Hamas and increased its appetite to continue its jihad to eliminate Israel. All the money in the world will not convince Hamas to abandon its ideology or soften its position toward Israel.

If Hamas is in fact interested in a truce, it is not because it wants peace with Israel. Rather, it is because Hamas needs "breathing space" that will allow it to continue developing and amassing weapons, and preparing for more attacks on Israel. Anyone who puts his or her faith in Hamas tempering its objectives is living in an illusion.

Hamas has a long-standing tradition of violating ceasefires with Israel.

Even if the Egyptians, Qataris and the UN manage to end the latest attacks on Israel, Hamas will never abandon its plan to destroy Israel and kill as many Jews as possible. Hamas will continue to violate ceasefires. If Qatar fulfills its promise to send more suitcases stuffed with millions of dollars to the Gaza Strip, Hamas will continue to laugh all the way to the bank.

What the international mediators need to understand is that there is only one solution to the crisis in the Gaza Strip: removing Hamas from power and destroying its military capabilities. They also need to understand that there is only one language that Hamas understands: the language of force. Until the mediators internalize this reality, Hamas will continue to make a mockery of everyone, including its own people and those who are trying to prevent a humanitarian disaster there. The assumption that if you pay terrorists millions of dollars they will stop attacking you -- rather than using the funds to build up their forces -- has proven to be false.

Bassam Tawil is a Muslim Arab based in the Middle East.

 

[Falcon29]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1062359400994750464

https://twitter.com/x/status/1062358642748518400

 

[BHarwana]

Al Jazeera reporting peace deal reached.

 

[Falcon29]

Palestinian Joint military committee spokesman Abu Obedia says the factions have agreed to Egyptian efforts to cease fire and will by abide by it as long as Israel does.
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There have no been official statements by Israeli politicians as of yet.
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Sky news Arabia: Israeli sources have informed us of the ceasefire agreement

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Barak David: Israeli official says Hamas asked for a ceasefire from 4 different parties , and Israel said it will asses the situation on the ground

 

[Solomon2]

Rockets, mortars from Gaza continue despite reports of 3:30 p.m. ceasefire
Arabic news outlets report Gaza terror groups agree to request from Egyptians to halt attacks in order to give ceasefire a chance
By JUDAH ARI GROSS Today, 4:13 pm 1

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  Missiles from the Iron Dome air defense system in the south of Israel destroy incoming missiles above Ashkelon fired from the Gaza Strip on November 13, 2018. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP)
  
  
  Palestinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip agreed to halt their attacks on southern Israel beginning at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday at the request of Egypt, Palestinian media outlets reported.
  
  News of the alleged ceasefire was accompanied by a salvo of rockets fired at the Hof Ashkelon and Sha’ar Hanegev regions of southern Israel.
  
  One of the projectiles directly hit a home in Hof Ashkelon, causing significant damage to the building, but no injuries, according to the local government.
  
  Israeli defense officials did not immediately comment on the reports of the alleged ceasefire.
  
  
  
  
  Blood at the entrance to an apartment struck by a Hamas rocket in Ashkelon, November 13, 2018. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
  On Monday and Tuesday, more than 400 rockets and mortar shells were fired at southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, killing at least one person — a Palestinian man living in Israel with a work permit — and injuring dozens more.
  
  It appeared to be the largest-ever number of projectiles fired at Israel from the coastal enclave in a 24-hour period, more than twice the number fired on any day of the 2014 Gaza war, according to Israeli statistics.
  
  In response to the relentless rocket fire from Gaza, the Israeli military launched a series of ground, air and naval strikes at over 150 targets in the Strip connected to Hamas and Islamic Jihad, said IDF spokesperson Jonathan Conricus.
  
  This included key strategic assets like the Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa television station, which Israel says is used to direct and support terror attacks, the spokesman said.
  
  On Tuesday, Egyptian intelligence officials and United Nations Special Envoy to the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov scrambled to broker a ceasefire between the two sides.
  
  
  
  
  An apartment building in Ashkelon hit by a Hamas rocket, killing one, November 13, 2018. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
  Israel’s security cabinet convened in the morning at the Defense Ministry’s Tel Aviv headquarters. The discussion continued well into the afternoon.
  
  As rocket attacks continued throughout the day on Monday night and Tuesday, the Israeli army sent reinforcements to the south in the form of additional infantry troops, tanks and Iron Dome batteries.
  
  
  
  
  IDF soldiers rest close to Kibbutz Nir Oz, in southern Israel near the border with Gaza, on November 12, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
  The military had yet to call up significant numbers of reservists as of Tuesday morning, but IDF Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Ronen Manelis told the Radio Darom station that it may yet do so if the need arises. Small numbers of reserve personnel, mostly from aerial defense units, have been brought into army service, Conricus told reporters by phone.
  
  According to the IDF, more than 400 rockets and mortars have been lobbed at southern Israel since Monday afternoon, which began shortly after 4:30 p.m. when Palestinian terrorists fired a Kornet anti-tank guided missile at a bus near the border, severely injuring an Israeli soldier.
  
  The anti-tank missile attack occurred less than a day after an IDF special operations officer was killed in an operation in Gaza gone awry that also killed seven Palestinian gunmen. Following the clashes, Hamas said “the blood of our righteous martyrs will not be wasted.”
  
  According to the military, over 100 of the incoming projectiles were intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system. Most of the rest landed in open fields outside of Israeli communities. Dozens exploded inside cities and towns throughout southern Israel, several of them directly hitting homes and apartment buildings in Ashkelon, Netivot and Sderot.
  
  
  
  
  Mahmoud Abu Asbah, 48, from the West Bank town of Halhul north of Hebron, was killed late Monday, November 12, 2018, when a rocket launched by Gaza terrorists struck a home in the southern Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon. (Twitter screen capture)
  The man killed in one of the direct hits in Ashkelon was later identified as a 48-year-old Palestinian man from Hebron, Mahmoud Abu Asbah, who was living in Israel with a legal work permit.
  
  According to medical officials, at least 27 people were injured in attacks, including the soldier hit in the anti-tank missile attack and two women wounded in direct hits on apartment buildings in Ashkelon. A man in his 40s was also moderately wounded by shrapnel, medics said.
  
  In Gaza, at least six Palestinians — at least five of them later claimed by terrorist groups as members — were killed in the IDF’s raids on Monday and Tuesday, apparently in airstrikes on rocket-launching cells, according to the Hamas-controlled Gaza health ministry.
  
  In recent weeks, Egyptian and UN mediators had appeared to be making progress in brokering informal understandings aimed at quieting the situation.
  
  Last week, Israel allowed Qatar to deliver $15 million to Gaza to allow cash-strapped Hamas to pay the salaries of thousands of government workers. At the same time, Hamas has lowered the intensity of the border protests in recent weeks.
  
  The fighting on Monday and Tuesday cast doubt over understandings previously brokered by Egypt and UN officials to reduce tensions. On Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had defended those understandings, saying he was doing everything possible to avoid another “unnecessary war.”
  

 

[500]

What's your point? 2 other killed were Israeli soldiers

1 Israeli soldier was killed in first clash.

 

[Falcon29]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1062368588231778304

 

[Solomon2]

2min ago
Israeli official indicates Gaza ceasefire reached
A senior Israeli diplomatic official appears to confirm that a ceasefire agreement had been reached with terror groups in the Gaza Strip.

“Israel maintains its right to act. Requests from Hamas for a ceasefire came through four different mediators. Israel responded that the events on the ground will decide [if a ceasefire will go into effect],” the official says, speaking on condition of anonymity.

— Judah Ari Gross