Israel Denounced for
Attack After Late-Night Raid Kills Seven Palestinians
Smoke billows following
Israeli air strikes targeting Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, near the border
with Egypt, on November 12, 2018. "Israel is once again looking to
instigate a war on Gaza," Yousef Munayyer, executive director of the US
Campaign for Palestinian Rights, wrote on Twitter. SAID KHATIB / AFP / GETTY
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November
12, 2018
Just hours after Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted — despite the abundance of
evidence to the contrary — that he wants to “avoid”
military conflict with the Palestinians, a unit of Israeli soldiers flagrantly violated
a ceasefire agreement Sunday night by invading the occupied Gaza Strip
and killing at least
seven Palestinians before fleeing under the cover of airstrikes.
According to Al
Jazeera, an Israeli special forces team entered Gaza late Sunday in
a civilian vehicle and proceeded to shoot and kill one Hamas commander in what
Gaza officials denounced as an assassination and a “cowardly” escalation of
tensions.
Six more Palestinians and one
Israeli soldier were later killed after a firefight, which prompted the Israeli
unit to call in airstrikes for cover to escape. One Palestinian witness said
Gaza was slammed with as many as 40 airstrikes in
less than an hour as the Israeli team fled the besieged Gaza Strip, which is in
the midst of a severe humanitarian crisis due to decades of brutal Israeli
occupation.
“Imagine if Palestinians
crossed into Israel and killed [seven] Israelis, all hell would break loose but
Palestinians are expected to just accept this,” Yousef Munayyer, executive
director of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, wrote on Twitter.
our
Email
Israel
is once again looking to instigate a war on Gaza. Just this morning Netanyahu
said he wanted "calm" but Israeli military conducts strikes on Gaza
breaking cease-fire.
In
the last 48 hours Israel facilitated the entry of millions in cash to Gaza for
the supposed purpose of avoiding a crisis and all the while was planning an
assassination operation aimed at the exact opposite purpose.
Israel insisted
that its Sunday night raid and severe escalation was nothing more than
an intelligence mission gone awry — an explanation that was rejected by
Palestinians and described by one commentator as “deeply
embarrassing.”
“Whatever it was, it’s a
reminder that Israel goes in and out of Gaza as it pleases. We all know what
happens to Palestinians who as much as go near the fence,” noted
Israeli-American journalist Mairav Zonszein, alluding to the Israeli
military’s indiscriminate massacre of Palestinian protestors
along the border fence separating Israel and the occupied Gaza Strip.
Photos of Israel’s latest
bombardment of Gaza and its aftermath began to circulate on social media Monday
morning.
Israeli
special forces entered #Gaza
Strip and executed an assassination operation against Palestinians. Until now, 4
Palestinians reported killed.
There're clashes between the infiltrated spec force & Palestinian resistance. Warplanes are shelling.#GazaUnderAttack
There're clashes between the infiltrated spec force & Palestinian resistance. Warplanes are shelling.#GazaUnderAttack
Pray
for me and for all people in #Gaza
Israeli aircrafts still roaring over our heads. I hope I can sleep well!#GazaUnderAttack
Israeli aircrafts still roaring over our heads. I hope I can sleep well!#GazaUnderAttack
Photos
of the damage caused by Israeli fire last night:https://twitter.com/plespost/status/1061873652201857026 …https://twitter.com/paltimes2015/status/1061864445641703424 …https://twitter.com/qudsn/status/1061866583159648257 …
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