Rockets fired out of the Gaza Strip in significant numbers, while Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes across the tiny enclave today, and a war halted about a week by ceasefires seems to be picking up once more.
At least 22 Palestinians were reported killed in the Israeli attacks, including four children. Among the slain were the wife and infant child of a Hamas commander, though the commander himself was not at the site of the attack.
The death toll stands at 2,029 Palestinians killed, overwhelmingly civilians and roughly a quarter of them children. The Israeli toll remains 67 killed, 64 of them soldiers.
The latest Israeli salvos have Hamas threatening a new round of strikes on Ben-Gurion Airport, warning international airlines to divert flights. Hamas rockets are not generally accurate enough to actually hit the airport, let alone strong enough to significantly damage it.
Hamas also fired rockets at the Nao offshore gas platform, one of the Israeli platforms nearest to the strip. The rockets, as usual, missed the target, and no damage to anything was reported.
Israel defended today’s attacks, and insisted all their targets were valid. Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon vowed to continue killing “Hamas terrorists.”
Can anyone seriously consider this a war?
3 killed in Israel (1 Israeli Jew helping the IDF, 1 Bedoin and 1 Thai worker) and approximately 1,800 Palestinian civilians with almost 500 children killed. This is wanton slaughter, genocide of the "other" that is an inconvenience to the racist Israeli society. Political leaders, rabbis and the majority of the Israeli public support this massacre as does the U.S. government and most of the ill-informed American public. Thankfully, the internet allows access to the truth.
USG/EU/English government there is another alike ISIS doing the same thing to Palestinian people, why don't You want to crush them as well?
Meanwhile, not a twit is mentioned on the broadcast media programs. The slight of hand away from what Israel is doing in Gaza is successful…again.