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| Senior officer warns Gaza protests to be most violent yet — report |
| 2018-05-12 |
| [IsraelTimes] Next week's demonstrations will coincide with Paleostinian 'nakba' commemorations and with US embassy move to Jerusalem A senior IDF officer reportedly warned that next week’s Gazoo protests are expected to be the most violent yet and could spill over into the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Some 50 Paleostinians have been killed and thousands maimed in more than a month of demonstrations, according to the Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede,-run Gazoo health ministry, and the IDF fears that the final act next week could be much worse. The army anticipates that there will be 17 different sites of confrontation along the border and has stationed 11 battalions to contain the protests, the senior officer in the southern command told the Haaretz daily Friday. There are also fears that the West Bank and East Jerusalem will see protests and the IDF has sent in reinforcements there too. The protest will be the culmination of a month of demonstrations to mark what Paleostinians call their "nakba," or catastrophe of Israel’s founding and also the US decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and move their embassy to the city. The embassy ceremony will take place on May 14, the anniversary of Israel’s founding according to the civil calendar. Israel marked its Independence Day last month, according to the Hebrew calendar. The IDF is expected to try and keep the protesters further away from the fence than they have been at current protests and if possible not allow them beyond the tent camps, some 300 meters (yards) from the border, Haaretz said. It did not provide details on how the IDF would do so. Earlier this week, Hamas’s leader in Gazoo Yahya Sinwar said he hoped that hundreds of thousands of Paleostinians would breach the border fence from Gazoo into Israel during next week’s protests. Sinwar said the mass protest would be "decisive," and vowed that he and other brass hats were "ready to die" in a campaign to end the blockade. Israel has repeatedly expressed concern over the possibility of a mass breach of the Gazoo fence, in which Paleostinians would stream across with turbans among them, wreaking havoc. Sinwar has vowed in the past that protesters would "breach the borders and pray at al-Aqsa," referring to the major Moslem shrine in Jerusalem. Sinwar was freed in a prisoner swap with Israel in 2011 and was elected as the movement’s Gazoo chief in 2017. Hamas has said if the protests "don’t achieve their goals," they will continue. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #7 You better Halt. |
| Posted by: newc 2018-05-12 23:51 |
| #6 Too dangerous to occupy, probably. |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-05-12 21:46 |
| #5 I appreciate Ariel Sharon as a battlefield commander and his humanity as a Prime Minister. However his relinquishing of control of Gaza was a mistake would it help the gazans / palestinians if Israel were to tell them that they were rescinding that offer and henceforth the land of gaza would henceforth be re-regarded as Israeli land and subject only to Israeli law and those that wouldn't accept that would be welcome to move to the East bank. |
| Posted by: irishrageboy 2018-05-12 21:35 |
| #4 would have thought they would be outof tires and kite string by now.. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2018-05-12 09:29 |
| #3 Flamethrowers Where's Musk? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-05-12 01:16 |
| #2 If they only put such energy in improving themselves. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2018-05-12 00:55 |
| #1 Flamethrowers. |
| Posted by: gorb 2018-05-12 00:41 |