Yesterday’s announced 72-hour ceasefire was supposed to go in effect in the Gaza Strip at 1 AM Eastern this morning. It never really got off the ground, and collapsed quickly into a new round of killings, with at least 50 more Palestinians slain in the few short hours since Israel announced the ceasefire “called off.”
The overall Gaza death toll now stands at at least 1,600, overwhelmingly civilians, while the Israeli toll, so far unchanged from last night, is 66 killed, 63 of them soldiers involved in the invasion.
Exactly who broke the ceasefire first varies depending on who is doing the reporting, but both sides seemed eager to resume fighting as soon as possible. Palestinians reported an Israeli air strike killing two in Gaza City was the first violation of the ceasefire, while Israel has claimed that either missiles were fired by some faction, or a kidnapping took place.
The Israeli military claimed its troops were attacking a tunnel, which they insisted was allowed by the ceasefire, when Hamas fighters emerged from inside the tunnel and exchanged fire, capturing a soldier.
What followed were heavy Israeli attacks on a nearby civilian neighborhood, which killed 50 and wounded hundreds of others, overwhelming a nearby hospital and adding to the massive toll of the Israeli onslaught.
The ceasefire negotiations, obviously, never got started since even officially the ceasefire lasted only about an hour, and it seems unlikely that new talks will be held now.
Seems to be that the Israeli POW was taken before the ceasefire started. Israel can't handle being bested so has now gone even more genocidal.
The US Senate, I understand, is blocking funding (for a PR moment, undoubtedly) for the so-called "Iron Dome," or "Sieve" as critics have dubbed it). Of course, the war is being continued… Nathan the Yahoo said it would be…he called up the Reservists…
The Senate may strike a pose for the world, but we know the kind of dogs these creatures are… we know that they are the dogs of War Street and Isra-hell. We know that they are War Pigs of the lowest and sorriest sort. Where John McCain–a bloody murdering, terrorist-befriending, married-to-the-Mob cur–was the candidate for the presidency of one of the arms of the Oligarchic monster that runs this nation and presumes to run the planet. He is heart and soul in the pocket of Israel.
The war, of course, is being continued. Obama may condemn…the Senate may posture…but the money and means of murder flow from the Potomac sewer to oppress and murder Palestinians, Syrians, Russians, Iranians, Iraqis, Afghans, etc… This is the foreign policy of War Street… of men who with one hand loot and steal, ship jobs abroad, import disease vectors and wreck culture and infrastructure and with the other destroy and impoverish abroad.
23 Qassams were fired in the last day, or rather that was the number that was reported that I read, and the vaunted Iron Dome stopped how many? 1. ONE rocket. Now, that's a minimum of 23 interceptors fired from Iron Dome, and probably more since multiple interceptors are usually used- and at $20K per interceptor that's a lot of buck for not much bang.
Oh, the deaths and destruction and injuries caused by that one "deadly" home made Qassam? Zero, nada, zilch was reported.
Must call out the genocide. http://whyitscommonsense.blogspot.com/2014/07/gaz…
Just another day in the Satanic Lands.
I said it in a previous post, a ceasefire means that all hostilities towards each other should end, but the Israeli have a different version, we stop bombing civilians target but will continue ground offensive. This kind of wording was bound to fail. Now the ceasefire has failed, fifty more Palestinians killed in a single bombing, and they are not targeting civilians.
It is time for Russia, China, South American nations, middle eastern nation to start boycotting Israel. The western far right Neo fascism, religious or not are not going to do anything about Netanyahu fascism regime, so is with the USG, nor it seams that the Turkish government showing any interests, although Erdogan government talks a lot hot air about giving back the Jewish medal Erdogan got.
It is time for Russia, China, and Pakistan to provide nukes to Assad, Hezbollah, Iran and any other responsible party willing to stand up to Israel.
The ceasefire was a hoax from the git-go…as if this is an old western movie in which they calvary waves a white flag, but those savage redskins don’t honor it. That’s just idiotic. Modern warfare doesn’t work that way. Cease-fires follow negotiations, not the other way around.
This was obviously a cheap PR ploy by Israel because of all the bad press it was getting for the indiscriminate slaughter.