A brief “humanitarian ceasefire” came and went earlier today in the Gaza Strip, and fresh off of that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced the beginning of a full-scale ground invasion of the tiny Palestinian enclave.
The invasion follows what the Israeli military touted as a “blistering artillery barrage” against the strip in the moments after the ceasefire, killing many more civilians, including at least seven children.
Since the start of the Israeli airstrikes at least 248 Palestinians have been killed, and another 1,770 wounded, many of them severely so. Roughly 80 percent of the slain are civilians.
The toll is likely to grow dramatically in the hours to come, with the large ground invasion. Tanks that had been reported moving toward the strip were involved in the pre-invasion barrage, but it is so far unclear if they are also directly involved in the invasion.
The latest reports are that the invasion launched now isn’t even the end of things, as Netanyahu has convened the security cabinet for Friday morning to discuss a dramatic escalation of the scope of the invasion as well.
Is this the beginning of the great ethnic cleansing, so long predicted? How many will die in this lunacy? I puke when I think of the leadership of this country.
A ground invasion means all out war on a hapless people forced to live under the illegal Israeli siege for decades.
I hope the mass murdering invaders get a licking like they did in the 2006 war they waged on Lebanon. Gaza is to become the place where Israeli leaders and their Governments go to die.
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Didn't you mean to title this article: "Nazis begin reduction of Warsaw Ghetto"? The Israelis have learned well the methods of their tormentors. How long before the introduction of gas vans?
Gas is so yesterday. We got us some nucular bombs we're just itching to try out: they're so much more efficient!
Blitzkrieg on Gaza. Oh those Israelis are ever so butch. In about 15 minutes America's feckless Obama will go live from the White House giving Israeli unconditional support for genocide on Palestinians.
We need peace in the world. Killing has never solved anything — ALL human life is precious. God save us all.
The KNOW the ground assault is coming. This cannot be a surprise, and yet, they will not move children and families out of harm's way. They WANT large numbers of slain children to report to the world to demonize Israel. Please pray for the children placed in harm's way.
This blaming-the-victim missive brought to you from Monsieur Liebermann's desk.
Move WHERE? Across the border into Israel proper, into Egypt on the far southern border where the border is closed, or into the sea?
It's interesting that recent cover for this mighta been Ukraine. They even got free 'nazis' thrown into the imagery soup. But, also, seems acknowledged that Ukraine/Neocons continue provoking Russia with rhetoric and maybe physical attacks against ethnic Russians. Isn't this also the Zionist strategy against Arabs/Islam? And, long ago, a strategy to draw out Germany? Kinda like when Luke Skywalker 'sensed' Han Solo was being tortured, then ran to the rescue before completing Yoda's training… Being helpless to respond really is psychologically degrading, but they'd have you take the rap when you respond to them.
Of course, now that the world is concerned over the plane that crashed in eastern Ukraine, start slaughtering more Palestinians so that no one will notice.
Israel is the victim and will prevail…
Shoot and cry…. Shoot and cry….
Just like those poor Germans in Warsaw…….
Is the plane shot down a diversion from the war crimes in Gaza?
It's not entirely out of the question- Israel has it's agents all over the place, and money buys a lot of firing buttons being pushed.
Israel begged for the rocket attacks to stop, now I hope Israel destroys all of gaza. The Jewish people have been put through hell over many years and it is past time for them to fight back. Go for it Israel you are doing the only thing that will stop the attacks. Gaza today, Iran tomorrow!!!!!
Geez, what a psychopath.
Israel broke the truce by bombing Gaza and killing 8 civilians- THAT is why Hamas replied with a rocket attack (which killed or injured NO ONE).
If the "Jews" are so butthurt over past injustices, maybe they should go after the main perpetrators of those injustices- the Germans and the Russians. Oh, that's right- the Germans and Russians can actually fight back and eliminate the IDF as a fighting force. So, I guess it's much better to pick on defenseless civilians in a prison camp.
I've see the average that over the past 13 years Israel has killed a Gazan or West Bank child every three days. And ISRAEL has been put through hell?
Just a Zionist flunky off his meds.
> Iran tomorrow!!!!!
As if.
People are "standing with Israel" like it's something to be proud of. Go figure.
As the barbarians and savages in Syria and Iraq confiscating the land of Iraqi and Syrian people calling their stone aged System caliphate, the Israeli apartheid regime doing exactly the same, the meaning of this Israeli fascist invasion is to confiscate more of Palestinians land and kill more of Palestinians as Hitler killed the Jewish people, those Jewish that were killed by Hitler and his fascist regimes were working men and women, those who cooperated with him are the same as those who are running the Israeli apartheid regime in Israel and those whom have confiscated the USG and its ideology creating what is knowing to be a falsified democracy with their phony and deceitful international and domestic politics.
We know that their lynch mobs burn people alive. What can we expect from the cowardly, brutal, jackbooted thuggish , IDF……cutting off ears, scalping…..
What a retarded approach to view the conflict. May i remind you WHO STARTED THE VIOLENCE, in this round just like in every other round in the past? Who raises their children in hate and their "education" includes mainly incitement against Israel? In which side do 4 years old children carry weapons? Why do they use the millions they get as support for building tunnels and buying rockets to inflict terror instead of using it to establish normal infrastructure in Gaza?
Israel is a country and it has the absolute right to defend itself. I whish you all hypocrites that your capitals and all of your cities would be unter infinte rocket attacks preventing you from living in peace. Maybe once Londonistan, Stockholm and Paris suffer like we do they would find the common sence and understand that there is only one side to blaim here, and it's not Israel.
And i wish Putin was our prime minister.
I hate war and I hate bigotry, fear mongering and much of the ignorance of the right. This is not coming from a Republican but a very liberal Democrat that has strong feelings on this issue. And no one is talking about the real issue and that is the Muslim world has said since 1948 that Israel does not have a right to exist. And the Palestinians voted in the terrorist sect Hamas (and they are indeed terrorist) therefore the blood that is being shed is due to the Palestinians choices and decisions as well as Hamas not wanting to have anything to do with a cease fire therefore they continue to fire their rockets. Israel has a right to exist as a nation unlike some of the foolish people that hate Jews say and believe and they have a right to live in peace. All the Palastinians have to do is come to the table and sign an agreement which they will not do. So this mess will continue on and this mess is due to the ignorance, hatred, bigotry, and fear mongering of much the Muslim world which are using the Palestinians in all this.