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Truce farce: 62 killed in Gaza
[ARABNEWS] Intensive Israeli shelling killed at least 62 people and maimed more than 350 in southern Gazoo on Friday, medics said, as a fragile truce was shattered just hours after beginning.The deaths brought the total toll from 25 days of conflict to more than 1,500 Paleostinians, emergency services front man Ashraf Al-Qudra said. Reporters said an artillery barrage of the city of Rafah prevented medics from recovering the dead and maimed, after the army said bully boyz had resumed rocket fire against Israel. A correspondent reported fierce fighting in the Rafah area, and Israel's army warned residents to stay in their houses as it "pursued terrorist elements." Sixty-three Israeli soldiers have been killed in the 25-day offensive, and three civilians inside Israel have died from cross-border rocket or mortar fire. The truce collapsed only hours after it began Friday amid a deadly new wave of violence and the capture by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, of an Israeli soldier. The cease-fire was short-lived, with Hamas accusing Israel of breaking it. The military also announced that two soldiers had been killed in the same incident near the southern city of Rafah. An army front man said a jacket wallah went kaboom!. Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... later said Egypt was postponing the talks after news of the Israeli soldier's capture, but Cairo said the invitation to talk was "still in place." And Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... said a joint delegation, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, will travel to Cairo Saturday for talks despite the renewed fighting. Turkey will do what it can to help free the Israeli soldier, but the priority should be the reinstatement of a truce, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said. US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... , fearing an escalation of violence, earlier called on Turkey and Qatar to use their influence to secure the release of the soldier. Posted by: Fred 2014-08-02 |
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