With the 72-hour ceasefire in the Gaza Strip expiring overnight, Israel has resumed attacks, and the death toll is once again on the rise among Palestinian civilians, with at least 10 killed since the ceasefire collapsed.
The death toll in Gaza has now passed 2,000, over 80% of them civilians and over 20% of them children under the age of 18. 10,000 others have been wounded in the attacks. The Israeli toll remains 67, 64 of them soldiers.
So far, the Cairo peace talks have not halted, though hawkish Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett is pushing for the Israeli government to withdraw the negotiating team and further escalate the war.
Egypt, which is mediating the peace talks, is also trying to broker a new ceasefire to enable the continuation of the talks, though so far they don’t appear to be having any success.
By Saturday night, reports were virtually unchanged from mid-week, with both sides still “far apart” and diplomats saying the resumption of violence was further stalling the effort to get peace talks restarted.
Since the fighting resumed mortars have been fired out of Gaza, and Israeli officials reported two injuries. Israel has launched numerous airstrikes and shellings against Gaza, killing a number of civilians, including a 10-year-old boy in Gaza City.
remember the camp chief in shindler's list having a few shots before breakfast, what was his name – something about yahoo??
Israel refuses to even consider Hamas' demands, so they let the cease-fire time out knowing exactly what the response would be. Of course Gaza is going to continue the resistance, what else did Israel expect?
Hamas , refuses to recognize Israel, has decided to break the ceasefire once again!….extremists are killing 100 times more Innocent Muslims than Israel!
2,000 individuals = 0.1% of Gaza population…
The Ukraine, Iraq and Israel attacking people of Gaza all are connected to USG/EU/English foreign policies. Since Barack Hussein Obama taking office, people witnessing more of wars in Middle East, Europe and in Africa then any time before. Israel attack can be stopped if USG/EU/English stop supporting and paying Israel, ISIS advances could have been stopped if USG/EU/English stopped giving millions of dollars to terrorism and stope cooperating with Saudis and UAE demands for regime change in Libya, Lebanon, Syria and Iran.
israel's doing it for us!
We're Fighting for the West, Not Just for Us
In interviews with international media Thursday, Prime Minister Binyamin
Netanyahu pressed Israel's case on defending citizens from Hamas' terror
attacks. By fighting Hamas, the leading edge of Islamist terrorism, Israel
is defending not only itself, but the entire Western world… http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/…
Gaza earned the sympathy of the world during the month-long bombardment and with their plucky resistance. I wonder, however, if the firing of rockets (however ineffective) might not be seen as "poking the bear" and bringing on their own misery. If Gaza loses sympathy, there will be a bloodbath as Israel will claim to have no choice but to 'shoot and weep.'
It seems to me that Israel will win if the rockets keep flying.
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The sound of "all hell breaking loose" has been lost in the shuffle. Is this a new global nightmare, or what ? Too many of my fellow Americans are clueless. Still spouting the same old memes about tunnels, and human shields. Their grasp of history isn't weak, it is entirely absent.