Eight dead in undercover Israeli operation in Gaza

[DonViejo]

Source: The Guardian



Seven Palestinians and Israeli officer killed during raid, as Netanyahu cuts short Paris visit

Oliver Holmes and Hazem Balousha in Gaza

Mon 12 Nov 2018 08.34 EST

Israeli forces have killed seven Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in an apparently botched undercover raid and ensuing firefight that has threatened to destroy a precarious, unofficial ceasefire.

An Israeli lieutenant colonel was killed and another officer wounded in the operation on Sunday night in south-east Gaza, the first-known ground incursion there by Israeli forces since the last war in 2014.

In apparent response to the gunfight, more than a dozen rockets were launched from the Hamas-controlled enclave overnight, and the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, cut short a visit to Paris, where he had been gathering with world leaders for a first world war commemoration.

Bomb sirens sounded in Israeli communities along the frontier and the military said its anti-air defences had intercepted three of the rockets. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage in Israel.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/11/at-least-six-palestinians-killed-in-israeli-raid-in-gaza

[sandensea]

1. The Apartheid of our times

And at least as brutal.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. +100

[leftynyc]

6. Feel free to link to

when blacks were in the South African government under apartheid or when they had the right to vote. Sick of people using words so carelessly they have lost all meaning.

[Blue_Tires]

7. agreed

[BuddhaGirl]

8. +1

Totally agree.

[Bettie]

9. Yep. This operation was very likely launched

to give the Israeli right wingers an excuse to kill a bunch more people and destroy their homes, thus making the usual conditions there even worse.

[sandensea]

10. Cheeto's no doubt taking notes.

Take the much-maligned caravan. The orange oaf's praying for some act of violence - anything - from one of them to give himself the perfect pretext for a brutal retaliation.

My guess is that they'll put in a few infiltrators as they approach the border (assuming they do), to make sure it happens.

That's how these despots roll.

[leftynyc]

3. terrorist hamas has been sending rockets

for weeks. They were all but begging for this because they don't give a crap about the Palestinians.

[maxsolomon]

4. aren't Hamas composed of Palestinians? therefore, they don't give a crap about themselves?

a pox on both their houses.

[leftynyc]

5. That about covers it

Their own elected leaders STEAL all the aid money to spend on weapons and tunnels. That's who the Palestinians in GAZA have chosen to lead them.