Israel continues to escalate airstrikes against the Gaza Strip today, with officials reporting 750 strikes in the last 48 hours, and the attacks leaving at least 81 killed, and hundreds others wounded.
The split between Hamas fighters and civilians remains unclear in the chaos of the Gaza attacks, but at least 12 children have been confirmed killed on Wednesday. Most of the missiles hit residential areas, destroying over 50 homes and damaging 1,700 others.
That’s just the beginning, according to Israeli officials, who bragged about hitting more targets in 48 hours than they did in the whole week-long November 2012 clash.
Outgoing President Shimon Peres confirmed an imminent ground invasion, as Israel continues to mass troops and tanks along the Gaza border, saying it will “happen quite soon,” and that its the “logical conclusion” to the current conflict with Hamas.
Arab nations are pushing for an emergency UN Security Council meeting to try to secure a ceasefire, though with the United States praising the Israeli onslaught, it seems likely that any UN measures to stop the fighting will come only after Israel has tired itself out pounding the tiny strip.
this is not going to end well. i feel for the people.
There you go, America- your tax dollars in action. Are the lives of a dozen children- so far- enough of a payment for your support of the apartheid nation of Israel? Or are you holding out for more little broken bodies?
And to think I once thought so highly of Israel I seriously considered moving and joining the IDF. Now I'm ashamed to even admit that I ever wanted to be any part of that.
Israeli- us crime against defenseless civilians during Ramadan in midsummer. There is no doubt the Obomber regime has become directly complicit in this terminal war-crime
I’m sure the next war will be with Hezbollah….not to worry they will find an excuse….HEY! How do we know that the weapons supplied by the US is in working order if we don’t use them on our neighbors….sick.
Israel has made itself into a militant racist theocracy/ethnocracy with ICBM nukes; a very real and rapidly increasing threat to itself and to the whole world. Justice demands resolution just as involuntary, disruptive and humiliating to Israel as Israel has wreaked upon occupied Palestine for generations. The Jewish State must be forced to recognize an armed Palestine with externally enforced autonomy, eviction of all settlers, true contiguity encompassing Gaza, the West Bank and Jerusalem together, neither pinched nor parceled, and pay punitive reparations.
It really saddens me that no one will help these poor people.
I hate to sound trite, but won't someone, ANYONE think of the children? They didn't ask to be born into this and have done nothing wrong.
Are the Israeli leadership and silent Obama really such monsters?
Yes, they are.
My heart bleeds for these poor people.
My prayers go out to them.
If there is a God, please make the Israeli's stop.
The World is run by Sociopaths backed by the MICM -Military Industial Complex Mafia