Israeli warplanes pound the Gaza Strip in an offensive they are calling “Operation Protective Edge” this evening, hitting a large number of targets in the center of the strip, as the situations moves closer to open warfare.
Israel’s security cabinet met this evening, agreeing to a further escalation of the conflict, which has seen both sides trading airstrikes in previous days. Israel also declared a “State of Emergency” is southern towns, though so far the Gaza rockets, as usual, have done minimal damage and caused only one confirmed injury.
Israel has confirmed a large number of strikes in Gaza, though it has denied reports of six Hamas fighters killed in one of the strikes, saying they died in a tunnel in an unrelated explosion.
Though Israel has not yet announced a ground invasion of the strip, they have called up another 1,500 reservists, and their military is massing ground troops along the Gaza border.
The tensions are on the rise across Israel itself, as well, with growing anger over the killing of a Palestinian teen last week, and the brutal police beating of his teenage cousin over the weekend already sparking massive protests among Israeli Arabs, protests likely to grow if the Gaza fighting continues to escalate.
What's else is new. Another year, another ritualistic slaughter of the Palestinians. This time around the 4th of July.
because its another step to attempting to boot the Pals out entirely.
I bet the number of innocent Palestinians killed for revenge of those 3 kidnapped is already 10 to one. At least a thousand Palestinians will perish in the next few weeks, more likely many more.
Frustrated Israel (as ever) hits out at its defenseless punching bag.
HA HA! TIME FOR ISIS!
O-boom-er is more than happy to resupply the rouge state with
bombs and ammo. After all, he (claimed) the rouge state has the
(right) to defend itself from those (deadly) bottle rockets
fired from the Gaza Strip.
one quick correction. It should say beating of his American teenage cousin. Remember, he is an American. So Israel has killed an American in international waters four years ago on the ship from Turkey and now they beat this American. Nice friends Israel are.