Israeli Military: 2 Rockets Fired From Gaza Into Israel, Violating Cease-Fire

[Purveyor]

Source: USA TODAY

CNN is also reporting this. Developing and waiting for wire copy.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/08/07/iraq-christian-villages-flee/13710265/

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IDF Says Two Rockets Land In Israel

By JPOST.COM STAFF
LAST UPDATED: 08/08/2014 04:41

The IDF said that two rockets landed in Israel on Friday morning, before the end of the 72-hour cease-fire.

http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/IDF-says-two-rockets-land-in-Israel-370458

[yeoman6987]

1. Again?????

What is so hard about keeping the cease fire? My goodness. Israel is not going to lean back and let this happen.

[Igel]

6. It's pretty amazing that the ceasefires hold.

Hamas must have made it clear it's willing to kick some serious Islamofanatic butt.

There are various groups, and some make Hamas look sweet and dainty. They'd be itching to show that they have bigger external genitals than Hamas does, even if it means that some on the home team get to take one for Allah.

Israel will sit back, I'd guess, and weigh options--and check chatter, to see if it *was* Hamas and what Hamas does to tamp down miscreants. While the fundie fools get macho "green stamp" points for their stamp books, Israel stands to get "we're better than that" points for theirs. Plus to do otherwise would be to let a small group dictate terms and conditions of behavior. Better to assault by intent than be manipulated into assaulting by minor provocation.

[yeoman6987]

7. I guess

but if Israel fires back can we FINALLY see that it is NOT Israel's intent to disrupt the ceasefire, but to protect themselves. I have not posted too much on these threads because it amazes me.....

[flamingdem]

21. About the size of it

plus, Israel ran out of targets.

[Hissyspit]

18. @jaketapper: Hamas spox Gaza: "what is reported regarding firing rockets towards the

@jaketapper: Hamas spox Gaza: "what is reported regarding firing rockets towards the occupation are Israeli reports aimed at confusing the situation"

[Ash_F]

74. That is kind of like complaining about why Americans can't stop shooting each other for a day

There are millions of Palestinians. They don't have the discipline and organization of a real army.

The problem is the proliferation of the weapons in the first place.

[Rhinodawg]

2. Well that's 7 cease fires broken by Hamas.

I think we're looking at a new record.

[regnaD kciN]

3. Wow…all of TWO rockets…

They must have made a loud bang when they landed harmlessly in the desert.

Unless there are a lot more forthcoming in the 3 1/2 hours before the truce was due to expire anyway, I'd guess this is the work of a few hotheads in a splinter group rather than Hamas' own militias, whose P.R. interest would be best served by making Israel restart hostilities first. Still, I'm sure it will give Bibi all he needs to kill a few hundred more Palestinian children.

[E-Z-B]

4. Wow. Just...wow.

[regnaD kciN]

9. If you disagree, provide reasons instead of just feigned shock…

I won't hold my breath.

[Iamthetruth]

61. I will tell you why

Because Israel can't take one step out of bounds without many on this board calling for war crimes investigations, while hama, who has broken every ceasefire so far can fire rockets into Israel without any noise from those very same people. Mind you every rocket fired into Israel is a war crime by definition because it is aimed at civilian populations, at least to the best these losers can aim.

[TheMick]

5. It only takes.....

....one rocket to kill you. But at least it reaffirms my view that Hamas has no interest in any sort of cease fire.

[regnaD kciN]

8. For Hamas rockets, it takes an amazing amount of bad luck to kill anyone…

From Israeli claims, Hamas has fired off over 3,600 rockets. How many have resulted in fatalities? ONE. And that was because it had the (mis)chance to hit a gas station. Those things are simply not much of a threat to anyone.

As to Hamas having "no interest in a cease fire," surely you noticed quiet over the past couple of days, didn't you? The cease-fire was about to expire today anyway, and talks had broken down when Israel refused to respond to a Palestinian offer. Armed conflict would have started up again 3 1/4 hours from the time I wrote this. Two rockets indicate to me that a splinter group jumped the gun -- if this had been a synchenized Hamas attack, a hell of a lot more than two rockets would have been launched in a barrage.

[Calista241]

10. Since Hamas is amazingly bad at trying to kill people

Israel should just ignore it and pretend it's just a big joke. Right? I mean, running to the bomb shelters should just be considered good exercise.

[riverwalker]

19. actually

I DID read that more Israelis were hurt by running to their bomb shelters, than hurt by any rocket.

[oberliner]

12. "If Netanyahu does not accept our demands, you will not return to your homes"

Hamas: We will never give up armed resistance

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/17618134-hamas-we-will-never-give-up-armed-resistance

[JDPriestly]

20. The question is whether Hamas can enforce a cease fire against those splinter groups.

How can Israel enter into serious negotiations with Hamas and other Palestinian leaders if the Palestinians cannot speak for all of their citizens when they negotiate?

I think that is the problem for Israel. Kerry and the Egyptians very much want to negotiate peace. But will it be possible for the Palestinians to enforce a peace?

To have negotiations on the Palestine/Israel dispute, you need to have all parties present and in accord. Is that possible if Palestinians have splinter groups?

That's the question Israel is asking.

[leftynyc]

32. Don't expect anyone here

to relate to that. Israel is all evil to them.

[COLGATE4]

39. Hamas is brutally effective at 'enforcing' discipline

against any Palestinian who they "believe" is collaborating with Israel (a pretty generic claim), usually executing them without compunction. But many here would have us believe that Hamas is ) totally incompetent in knowing who the 'splinter groups' are and 2) totally unable to reign them in to enforce the cease fire. If you believe that I've got some lovely beachfront property in the Everglades that I'd like to sell you.

[JDPriestly]

60. Israel, like any other nation, cannot agree to give up anything it now holds or has for peace

unless it can be sure that, once it gives it up, once it enters into an agreement, that agreement will be enforced, respected by ALL on the other side.

That is true in any negotiation. There are always checkpoints that must be met. An agreement can't be just enforced by one side. That principle does not just apply to Israel and Palestine. It is pretty universal.

That is why the Middle East is in such trouble with constant wars and killings. Promises are not kept. Countries don't have the ability to enforce their agreements within their own territory.

[Ash_F]

75. Here's a thought: Open the borders and allow Palestinians to vote people into Israeli government

You know, like South Africa.

[Marrah_G]

11. There are other groups in Gaza- smaller, more extreme

I personally don't think Hamas is behind this.

[Marrah_G]

13. 2 hours until the ceasefire ends.

I hope the fighting does not resume and I hope cooler heads prevail over these two rockets being fired. I was probably not done by Hamas, but by one of the smaller extremist groups.

Adding: The streets are quiet at the moment.

http://takemelive.com/external/rtrawsrv2.html

[4now]

14. Israel needs to end the illegal siege of Gaza.

If it ever expects to find peace.

End Israeli apartheid:
Boycott, Divest, Sanction.
http://www.bdsmovement.net/

[calilama]

17. It is not illegal to respond to missile attacks aimed at civilians

Unless you are just looking for a reason to hate Israel.......which is what it seems to me to be the case

[bravenak]

22. The occupation is a great reason to dislike Likud.

And the dead babies. It's always illegal to kill babies.

I think Israel should stop sending out internet warriors. They breed more disgust for Israel.

[oberliner]

23. The occupation isn't a Likud thing

It's gone on regardless of what political party was leading the governing coalition in Israel.

I would point out that Palestinians have killed their share of babies in Israel over the years.

I do agree with you, however, that Israel's disregard for civilian lives, specifically children (and more specifically infants) has, naturally, bred disgust.

That being said, shooting rockets at Israeli civilians is not the way to go, in my opinion.

[bravenak]

24. Nothing works with Israel.

No rockets for 19 mos and still no easing of the blockade. Say nothing and try to make a peace deal, they get MORE settlmnts announced by Likud. Send Kerry over to Isarel, Likud announces MORE settlements. Have Obma talk to Bibi, MORE settlments. Send the PA, Israel says no, because they can't make a deal without a coalition govt, MORE settlemtnts. Make a coalition government, MORE settlemnts.

Nothing works. It is time to take the blinders off and realize that the OCCUPATION is the problem. If Israel were occupying my town, we's shoot rockets all day every day. We are Americans. We don't take shit from nobody.

How long does Israel think it can get away with 'settling' on other peoples property and stealing resources before the entire world gets disgusted with them? I'm done, I'm completly disgusted and I will never believe another word coming from that nation until they get rid of LIKUD and tgeir right wing settler mentality. They can't just keep STEALING and antagonizing people and then bombing the SHIT out of the poor people that they confine in an opn air prison. No.

Not to mention all of the accusations of antisemitism for not agreeing with Israeli policy? They shoukd soon relize that all of the nasty things they sah to people whos money funds their little wars is working against them.

I'm proud to be a millenial, a group that has not fallen for the okie doke. Thank goodness we will have more power in time and Israel will get cut off. Twenty years is a long time, but it will come as a shock to the oppressors when our nations browning up is complete. Woe to the oppressor when that happens.

[hack89]

25. There was a constant stream of rockets during that 19 months

They were fired by groups other than Hamas we are told. If Hamas cannot control Gaza than Israel will. I personally think Hamas could stop every rocket if the wanted - they just don't want to.

[bravenak]

26. Hamas cannot stop non Hamas fighters from firing rockets.They are not prescient.Or omnipotent.

And 'settling' in their land does not show that Israel has ANY good intentions. At all. At one time I was supportive of Israel. NEVER AGAIN!

And all of the Israel can do no wrongers are really solidifying my position. They scream that Hamas is using Human Shields. That is to deflect from the truth that they were using human shields.
They yell that hamas are terrorists. Hamas! Hamas! With the hardest 'H' possible. But I see Hamas killing soldiers and Israel killing babies while blaming the parents. Who are the real terrorists? The one killing babies or the ones killing soldiers? Answer: The ones killing babies. The baby killing people are the 'real terrorists'. I never support the murder of children by grown ass soldiers.

Israel has lost my generation. I have no need for a holy land. I am an atheist.

http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/neighbors-won-t-be-serving-1.171577 proof of Israel using human shields.

[hack89]

27. When Hamas arrests and imprisons rocket shooters then you might have a point

They can do a lot more than just standing there with their thumbs up their asses.

I too am an atheist - I support Israel.

[bravenak]

29. Why should they?

So that Israel can steal more land and resources without any opposition? I would shoot rockets at my occupiers to. So would you.
I'm younger than you. Israel may do allright now. But my generation will be around for a long time with visions of dead Palestinian babies seared into my brain. I will never forget this. Ever.
All those lies. All of the rudeness of Netanyahu and the racism of Likud will be remembered by me and retold by me until i die.

The longer this goes on the more i look to see whats up with Israel. This is what i find. Racists in the Knesset. Bunch of right wingers. I will never support a right wing government that treats people who look like me like trash. Period. Google it sometimes, and sit back and think for a spell.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/9287715/Israeli-anti-immigration-riots-hit-African-neighbourhood-of-Tel-Aviv.html
http://hiphopandpolitics.com/2013/10/21/must-married-n-gger-anti-african-rallies-explode-israel/

[hack89]

33. If you support war than just say so

If you think rockets will get them what they want then fine. Let's see how things play out.

[bravenak]

38. I do not support war.

I DO support the right to resist occupation and imprisonment by collonial forces who have demonstrated the desire to oppress you to death.

Read my links and then ask me again why I a black Atheist Do NOT support Israel. Read them. I dare you to actually see the profound racism inherent in Israel politics.

I think time will give them what they want. Israel is losing the future by killing so many innocents. They will be boycotted. BDS is already getting a boost from this and America is the only country supporting the in the UN security council. Eventually we will ABSTAIN.

[Jefferson23]

30. Recommend this post. n/t

[oberliner]

31. "If Israel were occupying my town, we'd shoot rockets all day every day."

Last edited Fri Aug 8, 2014, 09:39 AM - Edit history (1)

Wow, really?

That surprises me, because most Palestinians actually do not support shooting rockets "all day every day". The average Palestinian in Gaza has nothing to do with such behavior.

And in the West Bank, where the occupation is much more direct (there are no settlements in Gaza, whereas they are all over the place in the West Bank), the number of Palestinians who support shooting rockets at Israel is even lower.

And no rockets are actually shot at Israel from there.

It seems weird on a progressive board like this that there would be a higher degree of support for shooting rockets at Israeli civilians than there is among the Palestinians themselves who for the most part do not embrace such violent actions against innocent people despite actually being under occupation.

[leftynyc]

35. Because nobody here

has to suffer any of the consequences from hamas and their rockets. They're the same that call the rockets "firecrackers".

[oberliner]

42. I often read: "No one on DU supports Hamas"

Yet here is a poster articulating support for the Hamas position “I’d shoot rockets all day every day” over the non-Hamas position (i.e. shooting rockets is not the way to go).

And you have several other posters expressing support for this view (and it's a view I've seen expressed fairly frequently).

[leftynyc]

45. I've seen it too

They're being completely disingenuous saying they don't support hamas because they defend what hamas has done all fucking day long.

[Jefferson23]

63. You're the one who is confused, not her. n/t

[oberliner]

65. Very true

I am doing my best to sort it all out.

[Jefferson23]

68. If you're going to misrepresent someone's point of view, that is good of you to reconsider. n/t

[oberliner]

70. I am not going to do that

In fact, I go out of my way to ensure that I don't misrepresent anyone's point of view and am happy to be corrected if I have inadvertently done so.

[Jefferson23]

72. I try to do that too, if someone feels I have done that as well. n/t

[bravenak]

40. My town is next to an Army base and an Air force Base.

Israel would be foolish to try that shit up here. I am not the type of person to turn the other cheek. Steal my land, kill my kids, kill my sons and mother.... You better watch your back for eternity because I will follow you through the seven hells to destroy you. Americans would lief die than live in an open air prison. "Give me Liberty or give me death!" That applies to the Palestinians to i suppose. I suppose ALL humans deserve the right to freedom. Even Palestinians. Israel needs to free Gaza or there will one day be no Israel. This cannot go on forever.

It's weird that on a progressive board we have so many people supporting the Right Wing RACIST government of Israel. http://hiphopandpolitics.com/2013/10/21/must-married-n-gger-anti-african-rallies-explode-israel/


That's how Israel treats people who look like me.

[oberliner]

44. That's fine

If I may quote Keith Ellison, "The vast majority of Gazans do not support firing rockets into Israel or killing Israelis."

I myself stand with that vast majority.

If you are more comfortable supporting (or at least empathizing with) the Hamas approach, that is your prerogative.

I would think that most folks here would be disdainful of the actions the RW Israeli government as well as the actions of the RW Hamas militants.

[bravenak]

47. Twist my words if you want to.

It makes no difference. I would, if living in an open air prison with bombs falling on my home shoot rockets all day every day at the occupying forces.

What do you think we did to the British? Guerrilla warfare. We would have never won fighting them head up with out using whatever means necessary. It is the American way to fight for freedom. I am an American. It is also MY way. Watch the Patriot. http://hiphopandpolitics.com/2013/10/21/must-married-n-gger-anti-african-rallies-explode-israel/
Another reason to dislike Israel for my black self.

[oberliner]

49. I am referencing a direct quote from your other post

Specifically:

"If Israel were occupying my town, we'd shoot rockets all day every day."

And again here you write:

"I would, if living in an open air prison with bombs falling on my home shoot rockets all day every day at the occupying forces."

Not sure what exactly is being twisted here - you seem to be making your point in quite a straightforward way.

If your comments are not meant to express support or empathy for what Hamas is doing (i.e. shooting rockets) then I may not be fully understanding the point you are making.

[bravenak]

50. I am telling you what I would do.

Me. Thats why I said I. And I still say that MY town would not be submissive to Israel at all. So maybe I just think that all of the ARROGANCE of the Israeli Government is dangerous. To themselves, to Palestine, to their relationship with MY generation, and to their relations with the entire world. If everybody has a problem with what you are doing.... Maybe it's time to reassess.

And yes, you got me. I'm from the hood, I don't really take shit from anybody and I have been in my share of fights. But i never stick around and oppress the person who jumped on me after I beat them up. I leave. Like Israel should do. That's where I'm coming from. I lived in the american Ghetto and it was super nice compared with Gaza. And WE rioted with less provocation than Gaza receives from Israel. Burned the whole city. If Israel keeps it up, not only will they have to worry about Hamas, they will have to deal with riots in Israel proper and the West Bank. And one day the US will ABSTAIN. Guarantee it.

[oberliner]

64. OK, fair enough

Can you understand why some Israelis might feel similarly with respect to Palestinians? Can you relate to the Israelis who suffered though years of terrorist attacks by Palestinians against civilians in Israel (men, women, children, elderly) have perhaps hardened attitudes as well?

[bravenak]

67. I think Israeli's need to take their own inventory.

They need to reflect upon how they are seen by the world NOW. They need to protect themselves in the future by NOT pissing off EVERYONE in the world. They need to make peace and stop making more and more demands of a people they have already oppressed for decades. Enough is enough. No claiming territory that wasn't theirs to begin with. No more settlements. Withdraw from ALL occupied territory and then a peace plan cam be put into place. They have been there FAR too long and have taken FAR to much from people who didn't have much to begin with. How long does Palestine have to be their whipping boy? Occupiers cannot SETTLE land they OCCUPY with their OWN people. That is illegal. Time to go home and resolve this issue by talking and diplomacy. Otherwise i do believe there will be a terrible price to pay for both sides. Why continue fighting a war that will never be won?

[oberliner]

69. Agreed

I think they should do all the things you've outlined here as well.

[Jefferson23]

57. Because it's so difficult for you to imagine a response like that is not about preference, more

about what can occur out of desperation. Somehow I doubt that was lost on you but you
seem to think it gave you an opportunity to suggest she was embracing violence.

[oberliner]

58. It's not difficult to imagine at all

Obviously a big chunk of Palestinians feel that way and do support Hamas in what they are doing.

The majority, though, don't, and I agree with them.

Most Palestinians don't support shooting rockets. Amnesty International does not support shooting rockets. The UN Human Rights Council does not support shooting rockets. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza does not support shooting rockets.

I would think DU would line up on that side of the question as well.

[Jefferson23]

62. Nonsense, I found your response to her contrived and disingeuous. n/t

[oberliner]

66. Fair enough

Didn't mean it that way.

The Hamas position is that shooting rockets is legit. The poster said that they too would shoot rockets if they were in a similar situation. It seems like that is an expression of an agreement with the Hamas position. If it's not, I am happy to stand corrected.

[Jefferson23]

71. Ok, good and thank you. It is abundantly clear that no one here prefers violence and it is

also clear, I feel, that she was speaking of people defending themselves.

If one is going to rely on Gandhi as I have noticed on DU, then at least consider all his
opinions, not a select few:

I WOULD risk violence a thousand times rather than risk the emasculation of a whole race.
Violence the Choice
I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence... I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.
But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness adorns a soldier...But abstinence is forgiveness only when there is the power to punish; it is meaningless when it pretends to proceed from a helpless creature....
But I do not believe India to be helpless....I do not believe myself to be a helpless creature....Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
We do want to drive out the best in the man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him. And in the process of finding his own status, the beast in him is bound now and again to put up his ugly appearance.
The world is not entirely governed by logic. Life itself involves some kind of violence and we have to choose the path of least violence.

http://www.mkgandhi.org/nonviolence/phil8.htm

[deathrind]

34. /\ this

[amandabeech]

15. Tomorrow should be an interesting news day, unfortunately.

Missiles shot from Gaza into Israel before end of truce.

Possible US air strikes (USAF and Naval Aviation) in northern Iraq in support of humanitarian mission and to protect Kurdish capital of Erbil.

Donetsk separatists shoot down Ukrainian air force plane with BUK, while fighting rages in Donetsk and Luhansk.


I really feel bad for the non-combatants in all these areas.

[Turbineguy]

16. Hamas is not satisfied

and wants more war crimes.

[intaglio]

28. Lot of confusion in the Israeli propaganda on this one

IDF say 2 rockets landed
Other reports say 2 rockets intercepted
Haaretz reports that there were 2 mortar shells and rockets began after the end of the ceasefire.

It's almost as if Israel was looking for a convenient excuse ...

[leftynyc]

36. Riiiight

The hamas rockets are all in everyone's imagination. Is there no limit to the amount of defense you want to give to a terrorist organization shooting rockets?

[intaglio]

37. Could you read the links I gave

They indicate confusion in the Israeli sourced reports. I have not yet see any Palestinian sourced reports

But I'm interrupting your hero worship, sorry.

[leftynyc]

41. You called it propaganda

did you forget that part?

[intaglio]

43. No,

No, Israeli sourced reports = propaganda. Palestinian sourced reports = opposing propaganda. Independent reports unlikely.

[Galraedia]

46. Correction: "2 Rockets Fired From Gaza Into Occupied Palastinian Territory"

Israel can't claim the occupied Palastinian territory being fired on as part of Israel since acquisition of territory through war is ILLEGAL under international law.

[oberliner]

48. The rockets landed in Occupied Palestinian Territory?

The rockets landed in southern Israel which is not generally considered part of the Occupied Territories (i.e. West Bank and Gaza).

Are you saying that all of Israel is Occupied Palestinian Territory?

[Galraedia]

51. It's part of Palestine that Israel has acquired illegally

In 1947 the United Nations hoped to settle the conflict between the Palestinian people and the Zionists by dividing the land between them. Unfortunately, they chose a plan which the Palestinians did not agree with, and implemented it anyways. The plan, described in UN Resolution, divided the land of Palestine into two sections awarding the Zionists more than 1/2 of the land (55%) even though their current holdings totalled only about 6%, and their population was only about 16% of all the people in Palestine. Plus the plan gave the most fertile farmlands to the Zionists. The plan was clearly unfair, and the Palestinians and their Arab neighbors rebelled against the plan, and war broke out.

The Zionists won the fighting, and during the course of the fighting took additional lands bringing their total holdings to about 75% of the lands of Palestine, which they kept.

Even though this additional land was thus illegally gained in violation of both the Hague Regulations (1907) and UN Charter (1945) which both included the basic legal principle that it is illegal to acquire territory by force, these new boundaries soon became the accepted boundaries of the new State of Israel in the various peace agreements Israel signed with its neighbors.

Source: http://www.israellawresourcecenter.org/internationallaw/studyguides/sgil3a.htm

The resolution which allows Israel to acquire territory occupied in is untenable in international law. Since the 1920s, international law no longer recognizes that a state can acquire title to territory by conquest, in other words by acquiring it through war. Israel’s victory could not, therefore, grant Israel either sovereignty or a right to acquire sovereignty over territories which it occupied. International law thus gave Israel no right to acquire sovereignty over any of the territories.

[oberliner]

54. What are the boundaries of Israel that are legal?

What part of Israel would you not consider to be occupied Palestinian territory?

[Galraedia]

56. The boundaries originally given to them by the U.N.

Any other territory Israel has acquired through war it has no right to claim as part of Israel. While they could legally occupy the territories outside the boundaries set by the U.N. after the 1948 Palestinian war, they violated international law when they began destroying villages and homes in Palestinian territory and transferring their own civilians into that territory.

"The occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies" Article 49(6) of the Fourth Geneva Convention

[oberliner]

59. The Palestinians did not agree to those boundaries

Neither did any of the Arab states in the region.

What gave the UN the right to give that territory away to Zionist colonists from Europe against the wishes of the native people who lived there?

[Galraedia]

73. You're right, they didn't agree.

Around the start of the 20th century the Zionist movement started which called for Jews to return to the land of Israel in what had been known as Palestine for around some 2,000 years. After WWI Palestine came under occupation by the British. During this time the British allowed Jewish immigrants into Palestine and the Zionists began colonizing parts of the country. After WWII, Zionists pressured Britain to split off Palestine. Britain, unable to solve the matter without breaking international law, turned the matter over to the U.N. The U.N. split Palestine, giving 56% to the Zionists, who used it to form the country of Israel. Palestinians were not given a say in the matter. However, the Zionists were well armed because they knew that this would upset the Palestinians. The fact that the Palestinians were willing to fight was actually beneficial to Israel as it gave them a reason to occupy Palestinian territory. Israel would then use this occupation to kill civilians and burn down the villages and homes of Palestinian civilians so that they could force them oout of their land.

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[riverwalker]

52. in retaliation

to the bottle rockets falling in an empty field, a 10 year old boy Ibrahim was killed by Israeli drone while playing near a mosque. His head was partially blown off.
In daylight, I would think the drone operator would be able to see children playing. Then again, they probably did.

[Cicada]

53. Hamas demanded Israel lift blockade of Gaza port

If New Jersey imposed a naval, air and land blockade of Manhattan, shooting those coming or going from Manhattan, shooting those trying to get goods in or out, then I imagine Manhattan would demand a lifting of the blockade.
What would you expect those in Manhattan to do facing such a blockade which caused 80% of its residents to earn less than $1.50 per day?
Hamas had said that they would not honor the ceasefire if after 2 days Israel failed to open the Gaza port.

Israel refused to open the port.

[oberliner]

55. Israel agreed to that demand as long as Hamas disarmed

The Hamas position is that disarming is out of the question and a deal breaker.

[dem1926]

76. peace for all beings.......now and forever

peace for all beings.......now and forever