Last night’s Israeli announcement of a 24-hour extension of the “humanitarian ceasefire” on the Gaza Strip didn’t last very long at all, before Israel claimed Hamas was violating what they themselves referred to as a “unilateral” pause, and renewed full-scale bombing of civilian areas of Gaza.
Hamas has since offered to join in the 24-hour ceasefire if it is renewed, though Israeli officials say no official response will be given, and that the attacks on the tiny Palestinian enclave will continue.
The humanitarian disaster caused by the Israeli strikes is soaring, with more than 1.2 million Palestinians now without water because of Israeli attacks on pumping stations and sewage lines, and the death toll stands at 1,139 Palestinians, overwhelmingly civilians and 24% of them children. On the Israeli side, the toll is 45 dead, 42 of them soldiers.
As for the more permanent settlement, Israeli officials are openly railing about last week’s attempts to negotiate, and targeting Secretary of State John Kerry for trying to end the war, accusing him of “completely capitulating” to Hamas.
The primary knock on the proposal, according to Israeli cabinet ministers, is that it did not include a provision allowing Israel to continue attacking Gaza “terror tunnels,” meaning Israel objected to the ceasefire chiefly because of the part where they had to cease firing.
How can anyone, no matter how pro Zionist, not see how terrible these actions are, the lies told by Netanyahu since June, the ridiculous suggestions that Hamas is asking Israel to kill Gazans, that rockets are somehow wicked but the huge military might of Israel should go on destroying a defenceless strip of land with no rights and no freedoms?
Israel gets away with anything it wishes to do. Like a spoiled brat. What's next ? Send them more money ??? Tell them how much safer we all feel ? Or give them a collective ass whipping ? I would buy popcorn to watch the mall brat get a "come uppance."
Diana Magnay's "Israeli Scum " tweet sums up my opinion on the rogue state.
The USG is being made a fool of in front of the entire world. How much longer will the American people take being shat upon by a rogue state while their government attempts to justify a slaughter of innocents with specious arguments? Are the American people really this stupid? Ah, well, perhaps…
The NBC news story on the hospital & playground strikes Anti-War links to a little while ago has been altered to remove any reference to the fact an NBC reporter said he witnessed an Israeli drone make the attack. The story now has a paragraph-long statement from the IDF denying they were operating in the area followed by an appended line "Early reports from the ground said an Israeli drone was responsible for the attack." Someone made a phone call..?
Down the Memory Hole.
Another story I saw says that an Agence France Presse reporter also witnessed a drone. The IDF is directly lying about this & there's a major push in western media to cover up, as always.
resumes? what did they do go for a smoke?