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Israel retaliates: Gaza pounded after deadly Sinai attacks
Published: 18 August, 2011, 20:44
Israeli soldiers stand at Tzihor Junction some 100 kms north of the Red Sea resort of Eilat on August 18, 2011 (AFP Photo / Menahem Kahana)
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Israeli military officials confirmed an air strike on southern Gaza following deadly attacks on Israel earlier Thursday. The Israeli government has blamed Gaza militants for the series of attacks that killed seven Israelis and injured at least 30.
Gaza militants said five Palestinians were killed in air strikes that hit the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, but no official confirmation was immediately available, the Associated Press reported.
Meanwhile, Palestinian medics said that at least seven Palestinians, including one child, were killed as a result of Israel’s air strikes, the Interfax news agency reported.
Local media reported that the air strike targeted a group of militants from the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), a coalition of faction that often operates independently from Gaza's Islamist Hamas rulers. According to reports, a leader of the group and one of its field commanders were among those killed.
The PRC has identified their dead commander as Kamal al-Nairab, Reuters reported.
The Israeli drones are still flying over the city of Rafah, RT’s Paula Slier reported.
At least seven Israelis, including two children, were killed and more than 30 injured in a series of terrorist attacks on vehicles in southern Israel on Thursday, which targeted a passenger bus, a private car and a military vehicle.
Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai said that the violence that erupted on Thursday afternoon is not over and that gunfire is continuing from both sides of the Israeli-Egyptian border.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is meeting with defense officials to map out a way forward. Earlier he said that there was “an attack on a sovereign state” and Israel would “retaliate and act accordingly.”
Israel strongly believes that the origin of these attacks is in Gaza, and the Israeli Defense Force issued a statement saying it will pursue at all costs those responsible for the attack.
18.08.2011, 20:14
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They all seem like members of two equally brainwashed cults to me. neither side seems able to see the other as human beings,
Good old religion and nationalism.....they soon turn us all into national socialists given the chance.
Israel doesn't 'strongly believe' they bring these acts upon themselves by OCCUPYING a people for half a century!AND where's the Russian condemnation of what amounts to shooting pigs in a poke?? ... They've effectively been sidelined by Israel and the US (for drone technology).Rightful Resistance is to be applauded..
Israel is a foreign virus introduced into the Middle East in the mid 20th century. It is based on failed 19th century philosophy - the very same type of philosophy that gave the world the curse of Communism and Fascism. Only Israel, North Korea and few other backward countries continue to insist on using crack-pot philosophies as the basis of their existence.
In Israel's case, it used an even worse and more false justification - the Torah as a basis for 'historical right' to brutalize the land. All good archaeologist now know the Old Testament (the Torah and various other Jewish texts) were the product of a very late day forgery industry set up in Jerusalem by Judean exiles returning from Babylonian capture. REAL archaeologists KNOW there was no Moses, no David, no Solomon; that there NEVER was any Unified Kingdom of Israel in the area. Those were all fairy tales invented by these self-appointed elite to cow and justify their self-imposed rule over an illiterate peasant population in Judea and Samaria through a temple (which they, not Solomon) established as the center of their rule in Jerusalem.
The only historical (meaning to really have existed, for those of you not clear on the definition of the word 'historical'). Jewish kingdom in the entire history of Palestine occurred between the years 164 to 64 BC. It was called the Hashmonean Kingdom and was only able to exist against the Seleucid Persian Empire from which they revolted because the controlling Temple Elite made a 'deal' with the Romans. The Romans renigged in 64 BC and took it over completely for themselves.