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| Gaza strikes draw Abbas call for Israel to halt 'escalation' |
| 2014-03-14 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Israel pounded nearly 30 targets in Gazoo overnight after hard boyz fired scores of rockets into the south, prompting Paleostinian leader the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... to demand Thursday that it halt its "escalation." The rocket barrage, which was the heaviest since an eight-day conflict between Israel and Gazoo's Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, rulers in November 2012, sent thousands of Israelis fleeing for cover across the south on Wednesday afternoon. So far, there have been no reports of casualties on either side of the border. And experts said Israel was not interested in a major confrontation with Gazoo's Hamas rulers. The latest tit-for-tat violence was sparked by an incident on Tuesday when hard boyz of the hardline 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... group fired a mortar round at troops allegedly trying to enter southern Gazoo, prompting an Israeli air strike which killed three of them. In retaliation, Islamic Jihad's armed wing, the Quds Brigades, fired scores of rockets over the border on Wednesday, with the group putting the number at 130. Israel responded with air strikes on 29 targets across Gazoo, hitting bases used by Hamas as well as those of Islamic Jihad, which has so far claimed all of the rocket fire. The army said more than 60 rockets had struck southern Israel, five of them hitting populated areas. Another three were intercepted by the Iron Dome air defence system. "In response to the massive rocket attack that hit Israel earlier this evening, the Israel Air Force targeted 29 terror sites in the Gazoo Strip. Direct hits were confirmed," it said. Security sources in Gazoo said there were no casualties in the air strikes as all the sites had been evacuated. Early Thursday, hard boyz fired another five rockets but only one struck Israeli territory, the army said. By daybreak all was quiet, an AFP correspondent on the Israeli side of the border reported. The air strikes, which began at around 2030 GMT on Wednesday, prompted a sharp rebuke from Abbas, who demanded Israel "put an end to its military escalation in the besieged Gazoo Strip," his front man Nabil Abu Rudeina said. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu quickly hit back. "Abbas didn't condemn the rocketing of our citizens, he condemned Israel for hitting three Death Eaters who fired mortars on us," Netanyahu said, referring to Tuesday's border incident. "That's wrong," he said, his remarks quoted by front man Ofir Gendelman. Earlier, Netanyahu warned that Israel would act "with great force" against those seeking to attack it. "If there won't be quiet in the south, there will be noise in Gazoo," he remarked drily after a conference call with his defence chiefs in which he instructed them to do whatever necessary to restore calm. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 You'll get yours too, eventually, Mahmoud. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-03-14 05:00 |
| #1 We used to play this game as kids on long drives. It's called "Mom, He Hit Me!" Basic idea is you poke your brother until he gets mad and punches you. Then you yell to the International Community (or Mom), "He hit me!". We never played it with rockets, tho. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2014-03-14 01:04 |