It’s unclear if British-Israeli soldier Lt. Hadar Goldin was ever captured, or indeed if he survived the Israeli shelling of the area around his disappearance, but Israeli officials have seized upon the incident and the media sensation surrounding it, and the security cabinet is expected to approve yet another escalation of the Gaza War.
A ceasefire that began 1:00 AM Friday lasted just 90 minutes before Israeli soldiers, attacking a Hamas tunnel, got in a fight with Hamas fighters inside that same tunnel, and the ceasefire ended leading to a new flurry of Israeli strikes on residential neighborhoods in the vicinity.
The death toll in Gaza continues to soar, with at least 1,650 Gazans now confirmed killed, the overwhelming majority of them civilians. 66 have been killed on the Israeli side, 63 of them Israeli soldiers, including two killed in today’s tunnel attack.
Israel’s security cabinet seems more or less unanimous in escalation, though they are deeply divided on how much escalation, with the far-right never satisfied with any of the escalations so far, and publicly criticizing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for not going further, and faster.
Netanyahu was critical of the cabinet during today’s meeting, warning officials to “watch your words” and stop letting their disagreements on the scope of the war become public, political issues.
Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz clarified Netanyahu’s position with an interview on Israel Radio, insisting that Netanyahu’s war decisions must be backed at all costs, and “if anyone has another opinion they should wait until after the war.”
Why UN marking HAMAS with war crime, while it is Israel having every militaristic option to act, as the regime dose, with war crime using its fire power supplied by USG killing innocent Palestinian people. According to all and every report by the Israel intelligent and police, it is not HAMAS which kidnaped the three Israeli youth and killed them, yet, Israeli regime wanting to start a new war by blaming HAMAS and start their massacre of Palestinian people in Gaza. In 2006 the Israeli army knowingly miss guided its solder into Lebanon, which one of the solders were captured by HAMAS, that was the reason for Israel to start the 2006 war with Lebanon.
These three Israeli youngster death reminds me of the three American youngster (1960s) that were killed in Mississippi and buried when in the end the killers were the county law officers and those religious racism existed in Mississippi, Hollywood made a movie named Mississippi Burning! You people need to see that movie and compare it with today's Israel acts against humanity, a well documented war crime.
Correction: One of the solders were captured by Hezbollah, NOT HAMAS.
The Israelis have stifled voices of dissent from the people and are now quieting any contrary voices from within the government. Isn't freedom glorious?
Freedom of fascism always regarded as the glorious moment in their existence, even if this Neo fascism is the Swedish government with EU governing body cooperation.
Netanyahu is doing to Gaza what Hitler did to Warsaw.