Israel deepens Gaza push to destroy Hamas tunnels

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-EXCITE

By IBRAHIM BARZAK and TIA GOLDENBERG

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops pushed deeper into Gaza on Friday to destroy rocket launching sites and tunnels, firing volleys of tank shells and clashing with Palestinian fighters in a high-stakes ground offensive meant to weaken the enclave's Hamas rulers.

Israel launched the operation late Thursday, following a 10-day campaign of more than 2,000 air strikes against Gaza that had failed to halt relentless Hamas rocket fire on Israeli cities.

Israel's first major ground offensive in Gaza in just over five years came as Egyptian cease-fire efforts stalled. Earlier this week, Israel accepted Cairo's offer to halt hostilities, but Hamas refused, demanding that Israel and Egypt first give guarantees to ease the blockade on Gaza.

Israel had been reticent about launching a ground offensive for fear of endangering its own soldiers and drawing international condemnation over mounting Palestinian civilian deaths.

FULL story at link.



This image made from video released by the Israeli military shows troops during the early hours of a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip on Friday, July 18, 2014. Israeli troops pushed deeper into Gaza on Friday to destroy rocket launching sites and tunnels, firing volleys of tank shells and clashing with Palestinian fighters in a high-stakes ground offensive meant to weaken the enclave's Hamas rulers. (AP Photo/Israeli Defense Forces)



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[Fred Sanders]

1. Ceasefire talks did not ""stall",'per above propaganda piece. They were about to work, so Bibii had

no choice but to invade a city of 2 million prisoners, before all the peace talks got out of hand.
Notice how they used a fake 5 hour ceasefire they announced as a compassionate act of self righteous goodness to cover up its preparations for more killing.

[MrBig]

2. There's a problem

Your conspiracy doesn't fit the timeline of events. Try again.

[azurnoir]

4. actually it does Abbas was in Egypt at the time the invasion started

discussing a cease fire among other things

CAIRO (AFP) -- Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday mulled holding a donors conference to rebuild Gaza, the Egyptian presidency said.

Sisi and Abbas, who discussed ways to end the Israeli offensive on the Palestinian enclave, also agreed that Israeli crossings to the besieged Gaza be opened to facilitate movement of people and goods.

It was not clear whether they were also referring to Egypt's Rafah border crossing with Gaza, the only passage that bypasses Israel.

The two leaders met amid intensifying global efforts to end the deadly conflict as Israel and Hamas resumed their strikes, after a brief halt of hostilities Thursday on humanitarian grounds.

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=714011

[Fred Sanders]

6. Kind of old news, the slaughter has begun, sir. It began to prevent that old news happening.

[ballyhoo]

3. Yep. Mr. Helgian Dialectic Netanyahoo

strikes again.

[Fred Sanders]

5. We should all have as much tolerance for the mouth breathers that breath in the propaganda as

we do the producers of wartime propaganda.

How it is anyone trusts the party with the 250 to 1 body count in their favor is a mystery.

[ballyhoo]

7. It has been a mystery to me for years. The only reason I can think of

is all the constant diversions by the MIC to facilitate their agendas. People are so absorbed by the diversions they lose track of what actually is happening right in front of them. Also, that takes time away from watching Leave it to Beaver reruns on their cellphones. Total eclipse of the brain.

[Fred Sanders]

8. And once they return to the topic, they are offended if they do not have their facts right, and are

told so.....human nature?

Do not forget that the purpose of propaganda is not to influence the knowledgable, it is to influence the ignorant. (Choose your definition of "ignorant" for your own purpose, those who feign to disagree)

[ballyhoo]

11. Exactly.

[bossy22]

9. the german death count

Was 10x more than the American death count in ww2 so that must mean Nazi Germany was the victim right?

[Fred Sanders]

10. Actually a good parallel as the Americans and Russians penned in Germany month by month and

then killed them in their prison.

But it was a real war, it ended, many more sides, lots of killing on all sides, no 250 to 1 ratio at all.

I guess your analogy is not very helpful at all to anyone.

Never mind.