Al Jazeera is reporting more Israeli air strikes on Gaza. And mortars are being fired from Gaza into Israel.
An Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip has killed one Palestinian and wounded two others, prompting Hamas to allege that it violated a two-day-old unofficial truce.
Wednesday's missile attack, which targeted a vehicle in Rafah near the border with Egypt, raised fears of a fresh descent into violence scarcely 48 hours after factions had agreed to end rocket fire on southern Israel, on condition that the Israeli Air Force also stopped its raids.
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Gaza's Hamas government accused Israel of violating the unwritten truce with its latest air strikes and called for UN intervention.
A statement issued by Hamas read: "Such aggressive behaviour confirms that Israel has no true intention of maintaining the truce and insists on escalating the situation. We call upon the international community and the United Nations in particular to pressure Israel to stop its aggression against our people."
I've been reading Gazan tweets and they're being pounded as I type this. More death and injury is being reported on that venue and I've received an email from a friend in Gaza, it feels like all hell's breaking loose, again.
If true, this would a classic Israeli Orwellian take on ‘truce’ — truce or ceasefire means that Palestinians cease all violence while Israelis continue war crimes as usual. Likewise, the “peace process” means Palestinians accede to all Israeli demands while Israel makes a handful of cimmitments that it breaks even as it’s making them.
And Americans and Israelis wonder why nobody on Earth finds them credible.
Well of course. The truce threatens Israel’s policy of indiscriminate violence against Palestinians, anywhere, any time.
Indeed, this is another case if Israel agreeing to a ceasefire and then violating it at will, doing all they can to provoke a response from Hamas that they can then defend themselves against.
And then along will come the useful idiots like DGB and GF and pretend to act perplexed as to why Hamas keepd provoking Israel.
it’s really infuriating. imagine living there under these circumstances. my friend:
fuck fuck fuck. and what can i say to her? i am sorry?
Your friend, Annie, I assume lives in the south of Israel within target range of the Hamas and co. missiles. The description fits exactly how the people there feel every time a missile is fired.
(without expletives) what can I say to her? I’m sorry?
99.9% of the time, they don’t feel and see anythisg becasue the things land in the Negev.
What BS. There is absolutely no equivalence between the pampered lives in Southern Israel and the miserable, terrorised lives in Gaza, thanks to Israel’s indiscriminate, punitive vindictive ‘strategy’. Sderot is exploited ruthlessly by Israel in its relentless PR campaign, so much so that you wonder if they have a vested interest in keeping it in occasional danger from feeble home-made rockets which hardly ever land there.
That might officially be the dumbest comparison in the first 11 years of this century.
Let me guess Samuel: there are also millions of Jewish Refugees, Barak offered Arafat 97% at Camp David, everything Israel does is in self-defense, there are no partners for peace on the Palestinian/Arab side, Palestinians teach their children to hate, etc, etc, etc…
Man, people like you seriously live on another planet. Just an example of why Zionism is no different than any other oppressive, racist ideology.
>> The description fits exactly how the people there feel every time a missile is fired.
Yeah, it must be tough for southern Israelis who live under an ON-GOING and OFFENSIVE (i.e., not defensive) campaign of aggression, oppression, theft, colonization, destruction and murder.
Oh, wait a minute, they don’t.
There is NO comparison between the suffering in Gaza and that in Southern Israel.
It’s by order of 100. You’d have to be deeply dishonest and partisan like Dick Witty, the pro-Nakba, racist, pro-settler Zionist to get that low.
The description fits exactly how the people there feel every time a missile is fired.
huh? something tells me being bombed by an airforce is probably louder and more dangerous than whatever kind of rockets are available to militants in gaza. but you already know that.
Shingo, where did Israel ever agree to a ceasefire? they explicitly said they didn’t on multiple occasions. The factions in Gaza agreed to a ceasefire amongst themselves at the urging of the Egyptians. Unfortunately for both Israel and Gaza, the rocket fire NEVER halted, it’s intensity may have lessened, but they never stopped being fired.
useful idiot, original you should look up its origin.
So you’re basically admitting that Israel is going to kill kill kill in Gaza, no matter what?
where did Israel ever agree to a ceasefire?
google is your friend
First of all facts – there is/was no “ceasefire” or “truce”. No one asked Israel, and Israel never said it was party to any agreement with Hamas.
And even if there was an unofficial ceasefire or truce, which was supposed to start at 21:00 I/P time (as declared by Hamas), it lasted less than half an hour, for at 21:25 kassam missiles were fired into Israel from Gaza, long before Israel replied with more bombing.
False. Israel agreed to thje ceasefire days before.
link to smh.com.au
False. Israel has been shelling Gaza with tanks the last few days, killing a 65 year old woman.
link to timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Secondly, even Israel admit that Hamas did not break the ceasefire.
So the goal of the attacks on Gaza aren’t to stop ongoing attacks on Israel, but to use a window of opportunity to slaughter indiscriminately?
usually when someone wants to slaughter indiscriminately they don’t drop fliers telling the civilians to leaves hostile areas.
cute rhetoric though.
usually when someone wants to slaughter indiscriminately they don’t drop fliers telling the civilians to leaves hostile areas.
they do if they want to cover their ass for war crimes. Lawfare in Gaza: legislative attack
straight from the horse’s mouth. take israel’s ‘warnings’ and shove em where the sun don’t shine. you’re not fooling anyone.
what is exactly your argument here Annie, that Gazans are used as human shields? you are preaching to the choir, we’ve known that for years.
go read it again. i’m not advocating what he says i am directing you to this because he articulates the israeli mindframe of justifying war crimes thru the use of warning. gazans are not used as human shields, that’s zio narrative.
So let me get this straight, DBG. A Gazan child in a school in the middle of Gaza — about as far from the encircling Israeli settlement enterprise as you can actually get in Palestine — is a “human shield” but all those children that Israeli settlers are raising to be gun-toting ethnic-cleansing extremists who DRIVE THEIR CHILDREN OUT INTO THE WEST BANK, INTO THE THEATER OF A MILITARY INVASION, those aren’t examples of human shields?
and let’s not ask him about all those human shields living in Najd errrr sderot. unlike gazans they have an opportunity to evacuate whenever they want. and those schools they place in close proximity to the range of fire? tsk tsk
I think I read somewhere yesterday that both sides agreed to stop for now but said they would resume if the other side began again. It would be funny except for the miserable victims on either side. It’s always “you started it” same as OP CAST LEAD. Remember Nov 4, 2008?
you can bring up that nov 4th talking point all you want, but how many rockets have been fired since cast lead? those have all been breaches of the ceasefire reached after the Gaza war.
Doesn’t your statement pretty much prove our point? Before November 4th, the rocket attacks had dropped to less than three a month. Operation Cast Lead, if it was intended to stop attacks on Israel, FAILED in that regard.
Israel’s activities provoke the cycle of violence, and there is data to prove it. This isn’t a talking point, this is factual information.
Also once Israel breaks the cease fire, there’s nothing Hamas can do to either enforce or break it. A CEASE FIRE ENDS WHEN ONE SIDE OPENS FIRE FIRST.
your logic is so messed up Chaos. because israel allegedly broke a cease fire on November 4th 2008, none of the cease fires afterwards are legitimate?
Dude, weren’t you just telling us that anyone could post at HP, now you are using it for factual data? C’mon man.
Duh? Do you not understand what “anyone” actually means? It means that you could be dealing with a respected academic like Professor Nancy Kanwisher. Or, it means you could be dealing with racist hacks like Alan Dershowitz and Abe Foxman.
That’s the definition of ANYONE. You know, as much fun as it is for me to watch you knock your own teeth out by bashing your face into the proverbial brick wall in a spurious effort to prove you’re tougher than I am, or something — seriously, I could enjoy that all day — honor compels me to tell you that ad hominem makes you look like a Dershowitz.
Complain to the Israeli government about that, who are ALWYS the first to violate them.
How many times do were rad about the bombing of “tunnels” or killing of militants during ceasefires, yet they go largely unoticed becasue it only inolves the deaths fo Palestinians.
Dude, read the fucking article. It wasn’t someone pulling ideas out of their ass, it was statistical data.
Grow a brain or ask for a new one.
Dude, weren’t you just telling us that anyone could post at HP, now you are using it for factual data?
the HP article sources from The Israeli consulate in NYC. did you open the pdf?
Annie, this thing has been posted on anti-Israel sites millions of times, yes I’ve opened it. It is nonsense, all it takes into accounts are deaths, which is ridiculous. Are you arguing that ceasefires are only broken when someone dies?
None of this data is post Caste Lead either; here are a list of rocket attacks in 2011; how many ceasefires have been broken this year alone?
link to en.wikipedia.org
>>> … here are a list of rocket attacks in 2011 …
What’s the status of Israel’s ON-GOING and OFFENSIVE (i.e., not defensive) campaign of aggression, oppression, theft, colonization, destruction and murder? The numbers must be at least as impressive.
way to move the goalposts eljay.
way to correctly focus the point, eljay.
>> way to move the goalposts eljay.
I like to think of it this way: Without even getting into the whole “ethnic cleansing of Palestinians” thing, and the fact that Israel has extended itself beyond both its ’48 and ’67 borders, the fact remains that Israel continues to pursue a non-defensive campaign of oppression, theft, colonization, etc. And even though it has the power to halt that non-defensive campaign immediately and completely, it chooses not to.
So, IMO, as long as the non-defensive campaign continues, Israel is on considerably weaker moral ground than those who retaliate against it and its oppression, theft, colonization, etc.
What do you mean, move the goalposts? You’re the one that said counting deaths was RIDICULOUS. Now what, we’re supposed to take into account what sort of shows any particular victim was wearing at the time?
And then before you came up with that little bit of immoral, expedient tripe, you were trying to discount the article because it was on Huffington Post. Why don’t you make up your mind? There’s pretty much no ambiguity where I stand. Anyone can search my comments for “Huffington Post” or “HuffPo” and see exactly what my stance is on Huffington Post and how it changed over time.
dbg, you must know by now israel’s terrorism center claimed the rockets launched from gaza after israel invaded gaza killing 6 people the day of our national elections (nyt reported it as ‘israal breaks ceasefire’) were the first rockets fired. so no, i am not counting ‘the first deaths’. this has been well documented and no amount of “this thing has been posted on anti-Israel sites millions of times” makes one iota of difference.
wrt your wikilink? please link to wiki’s list of ‘israel attacks on gaza 2011′ so i can compare please. oh wait..wiki doesn’t have one! i’m so shocked.
Oh, and is that your stance toward the Holocaust, too, DBG? “Six million deaths? That’s ridiculous!” Or are you motivated solely by race hatred, such that the Jewish deaths matter but the Arab deaths do not?
By who DGB?
Every one of those rocket attacks has taken place after an Israeli attack. In March, during the brief conflict, you Hasbrats were compaining about Hams not sticking to a ceasefire, while remining oblivious to atatcks by Israel on Gaza on the 25th adn 26th of February.
You fascists are so blind that you only notice violence when Israel is on the receiving end.