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Gaza Twitter Round-up: Hamas and Israel officially choose fight over cease fire...maybe.
Sunday’s Times of Israel liveblog can be found here. Headlineas of midnight EDT Monday:
Despite truce reports all Israeli schools in southern Israel to remain closed.
Update at 9:30 a.m. EDT: Monday’s Times of Israel liveblog can be seen here. Current claimed Palestinian death toll is 31, of which at least 11 where jihadis, while 4 Israelis were killed. Israel hit more than 350 targets. Gaza fired 690 rockets β€” Iron Dome intercepted 240.

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And like the fickle folk now they change their minds. What will it be, come Washington, DC AM?
Not to worryβ€” either Hamasniks or Islamic Jihadis won’t be able to resist shooting off more rockets soon enough. They have about 9,000 remaining in stock, after all. One does wonder if we will discover this was meant to be yet another huge joint pincer attack that the Israelis either disrupted or triggered early β€” that Islamic Jihad tunnel destroyed on the first day is suggestive β€” or if this is just the annual Ramadan rambunctiousness.

Whoops that cease fire was without anybody talking to Israel!
lord garth, commenting on another article quoting Palestinian officials claiming a hudna, wrote, β€œThe IDF has not hit a target since about 900pm EDT Sunday and Hamas has not fired a rocket since about then also - about the past 2 hours before this post then have been a de facto truce.” So there’s that.

And hundreds of tanks and D9s come out to play
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Ynet has some statistics as of 9 pm local time:
The Public Security Ministry building, in the Rimal neighborhood of Gazoo City, was destroyed after IAF jets carried out its "knocks on the roof" policy of first dropping dummy bombs, to warn anyone inside to evacuate. The Israeli Air Force also hit other Gazoo targets, including the homes of Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", commanders and military installations.

Three Paleostinians, including two members of the 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...
 miitary wing, were killed in Israeli strikes Sunday, bringing the number of Paleostinians killed since Friday to at least 13.

More than 650 hundred rockets have been fired at Israel from the Gazoo Strip since Saturday morning, a senior Israel Air Force officer said Sunday. This is far higher than the average of 150 rockets fired each day during the last Gazoo war in 2014, known in Israel as Operation Protective Edge.

"Two hundred rockets were fired at residential areas, with an interception rate above 86 percent," the officer said of Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system, adding that the army was trying to ascertain why ome rockets managed to get through and hit residential areas. "No defense is absolute," he said.

According to the officer, the Israel Air Force had carried out more than 100 missions in Gazoo by late Sunday afternoon.

He added that the IDF is carrying out the instructions of the government and that for every building that they hit or significant strike, Gazoo faceless myrmidons react impulsively, and Israeli forces are prepared for any eventuality, including rockets fired deeper into Israel.

The officer also said that Hamas is trying to target IDF ground forces along the border using drones, but they have so far been thwarted.
From the Times of Israel at 6 am local time Monday:
On Sunday night, the Israeli military said it bombed some 40 "terror targets" in the Gazoo Strip in its latest round of Arclight airstrikes, bringing the IDF’s total number of raids up to 320 in the past two days. The military said it targeted "observation headquarters, underground bunkers, weapons caches, military facilities, launchpads, observation posts and more" in its most recent air raids.

The army said it targeted sites connected to both the Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", terror group, which rules Gazoo, and the Iran-backed Paleostinian 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...
. Paleostinian medical officials reported 29 dead since Friday, including at least 11 terrorists, The Times of Israel confirmed.
Posted by: 3dc 2019-05-06
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