Reports of a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip continued into Friday, though they were somewhat clouded by Israeli snipers shooting hundreds of civilians at the weekly border protest. It’s not clear that’s considered independent of the ceasefire, but it may well be given Israel has been treating protests this way for months.
At least two Palestinians were killed in the incidents. One a 55-year-old protester and the other a 22-year-old medic who was trying to treat the wounded. 307 other Palestinians were reported wounded, more or less all at the protest. Israeli tanks did, however, open fire on a pair of Hamas sites during the day as well.
There were no major exchanges of fire across the border, beyond the protest, which is a significant step toward deescalation. Israel hit well over 100 targets across the Gaza Strip in recent days, mostly civilian targets.
That wasn’t accidental, according to a Haaretz report. The report said the Israeli military was deliberately targeting “civilian targets, including population centers, with he goal of causing the residents to understand the price of escalation.”
ceasefire = reload
So? An independent country wishes to protect its borders from hostile invasion
Please define the location of the internationally-recognized “borders” to which you refer.
They were defined by the 1949 armistice agreements and the Oslo accords.
They were defined by the 1949 armistice agreements and the Oslo accords.
Let’s try this once more:
Please define the location of the internationally-recognized “borders” to which you refer.
Nothing of what you have written constitutes a proper response to my request.
You’d have to say the same about Iran, right?
Again, not at all. No one is questioning the Iranian borders
Hold on a moment deliberate targeting of civilian targets? Is that kosher? I mean what with rules of war Geneva conventions that sort of stuff?