Protests and mounting anger over President Trump’s Wednesday declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has also seen spill-over violence along the Gaza frontier, with rocket fire from the tiny strip and Israeli warplanes responding with airstrikes.
At least three rockets were reported to have been fired from Gaza, and one managed to both reach the southern Israeli city of Sderot and explode, extremely rare given the rudimentary nature of a lot of Palestinian rockets.
The rocket caused some damage to parked cars, and two Israelis are being treated for “shock” after hearing the explosion. Casualties on the Gaza side are much larger, with at least 14 wounded, and some saying as many as 25 were wounded in the strikes.
Though Israel insisted that the strikes targeted “Hamas military sites,” Palestinian officials insisted that as many as six children were among the wounded in the strikes.
Of the three Gaza rockets, the Sderot one was the only one to reach Israel intact, with Israel reportedly intercepting one, and a second missile not even managing to get out of the strip before crashing.
This is old story— Israel claims rockets were fired. Nobody saw them. Years ago
Erdogan asked Israel to allow independent verification of supposed firings. But it was always the same. A parking lot — with a pothole sized crack in asphalt — a narrow shot without showing anything around. With sophisticated iron dome, how do this prjmitive rockets not capable to stage a decent fireworks — a danger to Israel. Well, a little chaos never hurt Israel. I was wondering how liong would it take to find another excuse to bomb Gaza. And here it is. Whatever excuse would do. I do not believe that it is possible to believe anything coming out of this state.
I wonder if the law of unintended consequences will strike here. Many states in the Middle East have been looking for excuses to diversify their economic and foreign policy outlook away from US and EU centric matrix. Look at Jordan. Humiliated bu US in every turn, it is turning to Turkey to wheather the storm. With over 50% of Palestinian population, the country can implode.
Unless Trump has something up his sleeve that will justify the chaos — then he would be just one more US president that was lead down the path of “peace” to be made a fool of.
But Trump is not a bureaucrat, and the same rules do not apply. Can he really be helping the same neicons that did everything to have him set up fir failure and removed from office? The joint neocon republican-.democrat condominium? Or is something else afoot — with Israel being just a willing tool in domestic politics? It is too early to see through the fog.
Trump doesn’t really hide much under his sleeve. In fact the best magicians wear short sleeves just to prove a point.
Trump went ta-daaa: reality, and everyone’s outraged that they can’t hide behind comforting lies and pretense to principles.
The world might actually have to deal with the reality that Israeli hardliners have ambitions beyond the charade of Tel Aviv and have been steadily been working to ensure their preferred reality comes true regardless of the cost to everyone else.
Probably another false flag launch to keep the “poor little besieged Israel” meme going.
Israel is allowed any action; Gaza is vilified for its tiny attempt to protest.
“two Israelis are being treated for “shock” after hearing the explosion.”
Poor darlings with an overarmed belligerent army and laws, while no Palestinian military forces are even allowed, let alone provided with US arms.
The rockets at their museum are rusting and intact. That means they are not the sophisticated missiles Israel likes to portray but so much plumbing without even a warhead.
It is a symbolic act of defiance