The details of the ongoing war in Gaza are sometimes unclear because of harsh military censorship inside of Israel, but the Israeli military today confirmed at least nine soldiers were killed in attacks in Gaza, including five slain in combat and another four killed by mortar fire.
That brings the official Israeli count to 52 soldiers killed during the war, along with three Israeli civilians. The Gaza toll has not been updated in almost 48 hours now, but stands at 1,139 Palestinians killed, overwhelmingly civilians.
Hamas is claiming the Israeli toll is even higher, in official statements claiming they had killed 91 soldiers and wounded hundreds. Israel has not publicly released the number of wounded.
Though polls still show the war is popular in Israel, expect that number to decrease as their conscripted military sees higher death tolls in the continuing invasion of the tiny strip.
I suspect the numbers will just grow as bibi is setting up for a very long war. I also suspect this could be a major turning point in the USa israel relationship I base this on the open bad mouthing of Kerry by Israrel. It will be interesting to see the fall out if the number of IDF gets into the hundreds. I suspect a lot of dual citizens will decide to give up their Israel citizen ship when war is no long looking good and picking up woman on the beach in Israel.
Nine? Good start.
Fascism needs to lose. http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rania-khalek/…
How peaceful of you. Wishing for more deaths.
Wishing for deaths of the IDF thugs IS a wish for peace! They kill women and children and non-combatants, then lie about it!! They deserve every last inch of pain they receive, every dark wish for them to suffer for what they have done – especially the American ones who run over to Israel to fight within their ranks.
Shooting fish in a barrel isn't quite so easy when the fish start shooting back. Palestinians in Gaza have been put "on killing ground," backs to the sea, nowhere to flee. If Netanyahu had read Sun Tzu, he might have known that no enemy fights harder than those on killing ground. http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/six-reasons-…
The Palestinians are at the point where they have little to loose by fighting to the bitter end. World opinion in time will become bitterly anti Zionist. Israel will be detested the world over..
They already are.
When the bodies start flooding home and the yowls of grieving Zio mothers pollute the air in Occupied Jerusalem, you won’t see any more Zios sitting on hillsides cheering the murder of Palestinian women and children.
If all the people of Gaza have to look forward to is a return to the genocidal blockade of their open-air prison, then they might as well fight to the finish.
Netanyahu is a sadistic sick individual with rest of his government. $31 billion dollars is what costs the Americans working man and women yearly, paying for what is a sick system. Barack Hussein Obama supporting such regime and willing to give more, what makes him to be, 1- a supporter of sick or sickening governments as Israeli apartheid regime with a fascistic system is. 2- or his support is more of a pleasing such regime because he is serving the US war industry, AIPAC, Goldman Sachs, IMF but not the American people?
I'll bet it was friendly fire or they were shot running away. The IDF is nothing but a brutal, jack-booted, thuggish rabble, good only for beating stone throwing children and terrorizing women. If the job cannot be done by artillery or air, you can bet that the heroic IDF hasn't the guts to close. That is why Hezbollah hands them their ass every time. The Palestinians are fighting to keep there families from being massacred.
May the freedom fighters in Gaza keep making a valiant stand against the murderous aggressor, who massacre their people. The only hope is somehow making world opinion stop this crime against humanity. Do your part write to and call your congress person. Let them know we are not all sheep being led to the slaughter. Tell them you are against the slaughter in Gaza.