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Netanyahu Instructs IAF To Resume Airstrikes
2014-07-15
[Ynet] Following ceaseless barrages of rockets, army instructed to hit back at terror targets with full force; a total of 132 terror targets attacked overnight before ceasefire came into effect, 5 Paleostinians killed, 4 maimed.

The ceaseless barrages of rockets after the one-sided truce has led the cabinet to authorize the IDF to resume aerial strikes in Gazoo, a senior IDF official said Tuesday afternoon.
As Henry Kissinger famously said, the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
The resumption of aerial strikes might just be the first step on the road to a ground offensive, which seemed like a long-shot this morning when the cabinet accepted the Egyptian ceasefire proposal.

"A ground offensive could help combat the many tunnels in the Strip, where the Air Force is not effective," the bigwig said.

Israel held its fire at 9am, as part of the Egyptian ceasefire proposal, but the heavy rocket fire from the Strip, which included long-range rockets to the Karmel area and to the Shfela area, brought about the change of tactics.

Government officials said that after Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and 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...
refused Egypt's offer and fired dozens of rockets, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon instructed them to forcefully strike terror targets.

Prior to the security cabinet's decision to accept the Egyptian ceasefire offer, the IDF struck 132 terror targets overnight. Among the targets attacked were a Hamas' drones facility, a military site attacked by special forces, and the home of the leader of Hamas' military wing Marwan Issa. The house is used as a command center.
Homes as command centers and mosques as armories...
Other targets attacked include 35 hidden rocket launchers, 12 command and control sites, six operation centers and 10 smuggling and terror tunnels.

Paleostinians reported five people had been killed overnight in Gazoo, bringing the corpse count to 192, with over 1,400 maimed.

The Gazoo health ministry said three people had been killed in an Arclight airstrike early Tuesday morning in Khas Younis.

Earlier, two Paleostinians were killed in an Arclight airstrike near area of Israeli settlements evacuated in 2005.

At least four Paleostinians were maimed in an Arclight airstrike in northern Gazoo.

Paleostinians reported that the Air Force also attacked the homes of two senior Islamic Jihad members in Gazoo, as well as the home of Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
's adviser, Basim Naim, destroyed it. Two houses in the al-Shati refugee camp and in Beit Lahiya were destroyed in a 7:30am strike.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  See also DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS, CNN > NETANYAHU: HAMAS LEAVES NO CHOICE BUT TO EXPAND OP | HAARETZ.

and

* BHARAT RAKSHAK, CNN > ISRAEL TO ESCALATE GAZA MILITARY OFFENSIVE AFTER FIRST [Israeli]CITIZEN KILLED.

Tel Aviv has resumed warning Paleos in Gaza to leave their areas ASAP.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2014-07-15 20:46  

#2  Never should have stopped.

In fact, increase the bombing the second the Paleos ask for a truce.
Posted by: DarthVader   2014-07-15 17:23  

#1  man! I never could have seen that happening. Not in a million years. Palos not accepting peace, that's never in the script!

Posted by: 3dc   2014-07-15 11:22  

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