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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel strikes Hamas sites after border unrest leaves 11 Gazans wounded
2023-09-27
[IsraelTimes] IDF responds to 12th consecutive night of riots along security fence as Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, seeks to draw attention to its economic woes and put pressure on foreign donors, experts say

Israeli Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s hit several targets in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip on Tuesday, the IDF said, after Paleostinian protesters flocked for the 12th straight day to the enclave’s frontier with Israel for demonstrations that have devolved into violent mostly peaceful festivities with Israeli security forces.

There were no reports of casualties in Gaza from the Israeli airstrikes, but Paleostinian health officials reported that Israeli forces shot and maimed 11 protesters during Tuesday’s rioting along the border.

The Israeli army said that it used a drone, helicopter and tank to strike multiple posts in northern and southern Gaza belonging to the Strip’s Hamas rulers in response to what it described as "violent mostly peaceful riots" at the security fence between Gaza and Israel.

The protests involve Paleostinians throwing stones and bombs, burning tires and, according to the Israeli military, shooting at Israeli soldiers.

Hamas, the terror group that seized control of Gaza in 2007, has said that young Paleostinians have organized the protests in response to surging violence in the West Bank and alleged provocations in Jerusalem.

In recent days, Paleostinians have also floated incendiary kites and balloons across the border into southern Israel, setting fire to farmland and unnerving Israeli civilian communities close to Gaza.

The unrest first erupted earlier this month, shortly after Hamas’ Finance Ministry announced it was slashing the salaries of civil servants by more than half, deepening a financial crisis in the enclave that has staggered under an Israeli-Egyptian blockade for the past 16 years.

Under arrangements stemming from past ceasefire understandings with Israel, the gas-rich emirate of Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
pays the salaries of civil servants in the Gaza Strip, provides direct cash transfers to poor families and offers other kinds of humanitarian aid.

Qatar’s Foreign Ministry said Saturday that it had begun the distribution of $100 cash transfers to some 100,000 needy families in the impoverished territory. Disbursements for civil servants’ salaries have suffered delays since May.

The sudden violence at the security fence has stoked fears of a wider escalation between Israel and Hamas, which have fought four wars and engaged in numerous smaller battles since Hamas took over the territory.

On Sunday, three Paleostinian terror groups announced plans to escalate their fight against Israel and to increase cooperation between them. Hamas, 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...
and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine made the statement after a meeting of brass hats in Beirut.

The groups "stressed the importance of escalating the comprehensive resistance, especially the armed resistance, in the face of the Israeli occupation, and agreed to strengthen all forms of coordination between the three organizations on all issues."

But experts said that the violent mostly peaceful protests — which have persisted with Hamas’ tacit consent for nearly two weeks now — have more to do with Hamas’ efforts to manage the territory and halt its spiraling economic crisis than draw Israel into a new round of conflict.

"It’s a tactical way of generating attention about their distress," Ibrahim Dalalsha, director of the Horizon Center, a Paleostinian research group based in the West Bank, said of Hamas. "It’s not an escalation but ’warming up’ to put pressure on relevant parties that can come up with money to give to the Hamas government."

Israel, he added, also seeks to contain the exchanges with its precise strikes on apparently abandoned Death Eater outposts — so far avoiding a mishap that could spiral into a conflict that neither side wants.
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