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Netanyahu vows 'massive strikes' in response to Gaza rocket barrages
 [DAWN] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Sunday to continue "massive strikes" in response to rocket fire from the Gazoo Strip as a deadly escalation entered a second day, sparking fears of wider violence.Just admit they made a mistake and reestablish control over Gaza.
But Israel disputed their account of the deaths of a pregnant mother and her baby, blaming errant Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, fire. One 58-year-old Israeli man was killed overnight by a rocket strike on the city of Ashkelon near the Gazoo border, Israeli police and medics said. "I instructed the [military] this morning to continue its massive strikes on terror elements in the Gazoo Strip," Netanyahu said at the start of a cabinet meeting. He said he had also ordered "tanks, artillery and infantry forces" to reinforce troops already deployed near Gazoo. The flare-up came as Hamas, the Islamist movement that rules the blockaded enclave, sought further concessions from Israel under a fragile months-old ceasefire. Israel said its strikes were in response to Hamas and Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem 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... firing 450 rockets or mortars across the border since Saturday, with Israeli air defences intercepting more than 150. Posted by: Fred 2019-05-06 |
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