Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to increase the intensity of attacks on Gaza, after a day of ferocious confrontations that left 30 people dead as Israeli jets and Palestinian militants traded airstrikes and rockets.
As medics on both sides put the death toll at 28 Palestinians, including 10 children, and two Israelis, the Israeli prime minister said there would be no pause. “It was decided that both the might of the attacks and the frequency of the attacks will be increased,” he announced.
Netanyahu vowed that Hamas and Islamic Jihad “will pay a very heavy price for their belligerence.”
Residents in Gaza City reported bombings on high-rise buildings, as families spent the night cowering in basements. On Tuesday evening, a 13-storey tower housing apartments and the offices of officials from Hamas, the Islamist group that rules inside Gaza, was hit by an Israeli airstrike and collapsed. Residents had earlier been told to evacuate. In response, Hamas’s military wing said it had fired 130 rockets towards Tel Aviv, and air raid sirens and then explosions were heard in the coastal city.
Three people were reported injured when a rocket hit a bus in Holon, just south of Tel Aviv. Nearby Ben Gurion airport was closed and incoming flights were diverted to Cyprus.
The attacks began on Monday evening, when after weeks of intense violence in Jerusalem, Hamas fired a barrage of rockets towards the holy city, believed to be the first time it had targeted Jerusalem in more than seven years.Picture the people of Staten Island, whose stated goal is to end the existence of New Jersey, lobbing rockets into Newark. That gives you an idea of the geography of the situation, and the idiocy involved.
Meanwhile, the Biden team is trying to halve it.
We believe Palestinians and Israelis deserve equal measures of freedom, security, dignity and prosperity,” Psaki said. “US officials in recent weeks have spoken candidly with Israeli officials about how evictions of Palestinian families who have lived for years, sometimes decades, in their homes, and how demolitions of these homes, work against our common interests and achieving a solution to the conflict.”
In recent weeks, there has been a sharp escalation in anger over Israel’s half-century occupation its ever-deepening military grip over Palestinian life and a wave of evictions and demolitions.https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/theres-no-israeli-occupation-in-the-west-bank/Occupation?
Um--no.
Recall the Six-Day war, when Israel took over their own land from Jordan in self defense after Jordan joined a war launched by Egypt and Syria to destroy the state of Israel.
If you think the Palestinians, who have never had a country of their own, deserve to claim the lands of the West Bank, and you characterize this as an
Israeli occupation, then it is also true that Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico are merely the result of the US occupying land which belong to the Apache and Navajo "nations". Did I leave out California?
Stop.
Wake up.
If Mexico started indiscriminately and daily lobbing rockets into El Paso for months at a time, would you be talking about the US occupation?
Puhleeeeeeeze.
Poll
