As Gazan survivors of the latest Israeli onslaught piece together what is left of their lives, Israeli warplanes return to the skies of the territory to unleash fresh air strikes.
In the most intensive attacks in recent weeks, Israeli jets carried out at least four bombing runs on the Gaza-Egypt border on Tuesday night, medics and witnesses said.
Another raid targeted a Gaza government outpost near a border fence with Israel, marking the first attack on a government position since the January 18 ceasefire ended three weeks of Israeli aggression against the territory.
Witnesses said that one of the missiles fired by the Israeli air squadron struck a moving car in Yafa Street in northern Gaza City.
Medical teams arrived at the scene and carried one casualty to Shifa Hospital. The Israeli military has declined to comment on the matter.
The nearly seven bombing missions carried out in the impoverished ghetto on Tuesday injured at least 5 Palestinians and damaged several houses. The full extent of the damage, however, is yet unknown.
The new attacks come as the United Nations has demanded that Tel Aviv end its sixty years of US-advocated oppression against the Palestinians and allow the creation of a viable Palestinian state.
Resistance fighters in Gaza have been using rocket fire as a retaliatory measure against Tel Aviv for its hostilities against the Palestinian nation -- which is native to the land.
The Gaza Strip has been under a blockade from land, sea and air by Israel and Egypt for nearly two years. Critics have described the territory as the word's largest open-air prison camp in which nearly 1.5 million people struggle to survive on a daily basis.
The last carnage wrought on the strip in January and December killed around 1,350 Palestinians and injured nearly 5,450 people -- mostly civilians.
Israel is also under pressure for its use of the flesh-eating white phosphorous weapons against civilians and UN positions in densely populated areas of Gaza during the war. source
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Despite your bold cliam to the contrary, the rocket fire is not retaliatory but the instigator of the violence. Much the same as the Gaza war, entirely avoidable if the Palestinians would choose not to launch rockets and mortors.
Yous should really work on that skewed view of yours. Try this scenario, stop stealing land from other people, return the land you have already stolen, change your apartheid statelet to a real democracy where all ethnic groups are treated equally, adhere to the more than 62 UN resolutions you continually break, allow Richard Goldstone and his fellow investigators into your rogue statelet to carry out their duties of war crimes investigations. Stop continualy attacking your neighbours, including you fixation with Iran, who, I may remind you HAS signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, where your rogue staelet has not. Then perhaps people can take you seriously with your drivel you write. Palestine and Lebanon have the right to defend themselves from your illegal invasions.
Wow. Nice redirection. I guess I should remind you that your post was about Gaza and Israel's answer to the constant attacks by its terrorist inhabitants. Incidentally, each and every Palestinian rocket and mortar attack qualifies as a war crime - though I suspect you have no problem with that. The Palestinians have NO RIGHT to indiscriminately attack civilian populations, and when they choose to do so nonetheless, they should expect there to be consequences.
BTW - You cannot invade what you already occupy, so make up your mind. The attack/invasion was not illegal and was entirely justified and "Palestine" is not country, it does not exist as a legal entity. And given the behavior of the Palestinian politicians, it never will be.
Warning, put down hot drinks. This might make you spew, my dear.
Hey babe, one thing to say about that doofus you are wasting your time on. He or she is just another "Agent provocateur" sent into chat to see what damage s/he can do and how much attention he can redirect from the original topic, which, in truth, there is no defense for.
Besides, anyone too cowardly to use a real name is just SOOOOO worthy of joining the IDF!
His bs and bs more are full of flaws as we both know. Why waste time on the wasted?
Go smell the roses in your garden, at least there the shyte is growing something purty and gives back.
His shyte is probably gonna end up in the Zionist Talmudic hell brewing in the cauldron in which Sharon, Begin, and the rest of the boys are partying in.
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