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| IDF: Hamas Fired On Troops During Two-Hour Humanitarian Ceasefire It Requested | |||
| 2014-07-20 | |||
| [Ynet] Request made via Red Thingy comes after night and morning of harsh shelling by IDF in Gazoo City; Gazooks say hundreds flee neighborhoods under fire; Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, stopping foreign journalists from leaving Gazoo. The IDF said its troops came under fire in the Gazoo City neighborhood of Saja'iyya on Sunday afternooon, less than an hour after Israel agreed to a Hamas request for a humanitarian truce to allow the evacuation of maimed from the area. The military said its forces were shot at shortly after the two-hour truce, facilitated by the Red Thingy, had begun at 1:30 pm, and that it had resumed combat operations. Hamas had no immediate comment on Israeli claims it had breached the ceasefire.
Ynet defense analyst, Ron Ben-Yishai, notes that Israel feared that ceasefire would be exploited for a kidnapping or for Hamas to prepare other Hamas tactics. The heavy artillery fire on Saja'iyya and the air force sorties were intended to isolate the area of operations. The IDF also announced it deployed a field hospital in the Erez Crossing to treat Paleostinians maimed in the fighting. The announcement said the hospital would begin operating starting at 8 pm. Foreign journalists have been trying to leave the Strip through the Erez Crossing but they were prevented from doing so by Hamas. In the last few hours, the Paleostinians have released harsh images of the dead and maimed, including children, who were killed overnight Saturday and Sunday morning in a massive IDF attack in the area.
"The massacre of civilians in Saja'iyya is a war crime that will not break the will of our people. The resistance will not allow the enemy to trample over the soil of Gazoo," said a statement by the group. Hamas front man Sami Abu Zuhri ...a senior spokesman for Hamas. Zuhri gained notoriety in 2006 when he dropped his money belt containing somewhere between 640,000 and 900,000 euros, which was confiscated by Paleostinian security and customs officials at a routine border crossing from Egypt to Gaza. The news brought competing Hamas and Fatah forces to the crossing checkpoint for an epic face-making and hollering contest... accused Israel of trying to compensate for its failure in the campaign against the group's military wing by taking its Dire Revengeâ„¢ out on the civilian population. Overnight, the Paleostinians reported the most intensive IDF attack in Gazoo since Operation Protective Edge began, in neighborhoods in the east of Gazoo City center. Official Gazoo sources said that hundreds of residents of these neighborhoods had fled westward and were trying to find shelter at Shifa Hospital in the city. Unofficial reports indicate that thousands of people have fled the neighborhoods. Among the dead is Osama Al-Haya, son of Hamas leader Khalil al-Haya. According to reports, the IDF bombed the house in which he was staying, and his wife and son were also killed. Medical officials in Gazoo have accused Israel of preventing ambulances from reaching the site of the incident, despite a request made via the Red Thingy.
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