A wave of protests has rocked the Gaza Strip in recent days as hundreds of Palestinians have taken to the streets to demonstrate against the power cuts that have left most homes in the Strip with only a few hours of electricity a day.
The protests, which were blocked by Hamas riot police, were not directed at a particular government or regime but were mainly a display of frustration at the paralysis that has gripped the rebuilding efforts.
Meanwhile, last Friday evening, two rockets were launched from Gaza towards Israel. One hit the town of Sderot but did not cause any casualties. The second, which was aimed at Ashkelon, was intercepted by an Iron Dome missile defence battery.
The Israeli air force responded with strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza. In the early hours of Monday, another rocket was fired towards Kibbutz Netiv Ha-asara, but caused no damage or casualties. The rockets were launched by a Salafist group with ties to Daesh, and Israeli officials said they believe Hamas was not involved, though they hold the movement responsible for any hostile act coming from Gaza.
Also last Friday, Egypt upped the pressure on Gaza when it began pumping sea water into the smuggling tunnels between Gaza and Egypt.
Over the past year, Egypt has destroyed many of the tunnels under the Rafah corridor, all but ending the trade that went on underground for years.
Israeli intelligence believes that the few tunnels that remained intact have been taken over by Hamas, which uses them mainly for arms smuggling and to move their operatives in and out of Gaza. The commercial use of the tunnels, however, has come to an end.
The prolonged isolation of Gaza, by both Egypt and Israel, is the result of the difficulties in reaching a long-term agreement on the Strip’s future.
The back-channel talks ongoing through Egypt and Qatar, in which former prime minister Tony Blair is also involved, have come up against a split Palestinian position, with Hamas’s political wing relatively open to a long-term ceasefire in return for an opening of the crossings, and the military wing insisting it be allowed to continue to prepare for an attack on Israel.
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Hmmm
Since 1948 these so called “rocket attacks” have killed less than 50 Israelis and done minimal property damage. One has to ask how is that possible when Israel continues to claim they are under constant attack from the Palestinians. The short answer is simple; Israel is lying. First the number of rockets actually fired is a tiny fraction of the Israeli claims. Second; a very large percentage of those so called attacks are actually carried out by Israeli forces. This is the real reason why no one is every hurt/killed and there is never any significant property damage in Israel.
The world no longer believes Israel’s constant claims of being subjected to “rocket attacks” from Gaza. It has long since become clear that the so called rocket attacks are merely false flags used by Israel to justify bombing and murdering innocent women and children.
The Egyptians flooded the tunnels with sea water. Those tunnels were Gaza’s only life line out side that walled in prison the Palestinians are trapped inside of. They were getting building supplies, medicine, food and other much needed goods for every day basic living, through those tunnels.
This makes the Egyptian government and any Egyptian citizens that supports it worse than the Jews. Because you expect this sort of thing from your enemies but not from your own Arab brethren.
In all the years this horrible Nakba has been inflicted upon the innocent Palestinian people they have never seen it so bad as it is now in regard to their own fellow surrounding Arab people joining hands with the devil zionist colonists and aiding them in the total destruction and elimination of the Palestinian people.
Shame shame shame on Egypt. Shame shame shame on the whole world.
Long live Palestine
To resist is to exist
Even if it takes a thousand years.
And even when you have to do it all alone.
The whole aim of Israel and the Jews is to starve Palestinians in Gaza to death, impoverish them to the point of total submission and subserviency to Israel which is hoping Palestinians will all decide to leave.
Egypt under their new Jewish Pharaoh Al Sisi is assisting in their inhuman besiegement of Gaza and the other Jews, the Saudis count their blessings as they now openly ask their JEWISH COUSINS in Israel, that has been militarily ‘superior’ for their
“proficient in this kind of warfare through decades in their confrontations with Lebanese and Palestinian militias and to my delight’ to send its pilots with such @military ‘prowess’ to bomb more impoverished Yemenis [ which they’ve been doing anyway covertly]. Target more Civilians.- men women and children something Israel indeed is a military expert at.
I leave the last words to the Satanist Zionist Arab Jubeir- Saudi foreign minister: “we are in dire need of Israeli military assistance to defeat Yemeni rebels; after all we are historically cousins.” with whom he wants the world to see they have a happy ‘co existence.’
Welcome to Eretz Israel.
Many people never believed that those so called “Rockets from Hamas” were real. Those so called Rockets are the work of Israel to blame it on Hamas in order to genocide periodically the remaining of the Palestinian people.
__ Meanwhile, last Friday evening, two rockets were launched from Gaza towards Israel. One hit the town of Sderot but did not cause any casualties. The second, which was aimed at Ashkelon, was intercepted by an Iron Dome missile defence battery. __
Hmmm
Since 1948 these so called “rocket attacks” have killed less than 50 Israelis and done minimal property damage. One has to ask how is that possible when Israel continues to claim they are under constant attack from the Palestinians. The short answer is simple; Israel is lying. First the number of rockets actually fired is a tiny fraction of the Israeli claims. Second; a very large percentage of those so called attacks are actually carried out by Israeli forces. This is the real reason why no one is every hurt/killed and there is never any significant property damage in Israel.
The world no longer believes Israel’s constant claims of being subjected to “rocket attacks” from Gaza. It has long since become clear that the so called rocket attacks are merely false flags used by Israel to justify bombing and murdering innocent women and children.
The Egyptians flooded the tunnels with sea water. Those tunnels were Gaza’s only life line out side that walled in prison the Palestinians are trapped inside of. They were getting building supplies, medicine, food and other much needed goods for every day basic living, through those tunnels.
This makes the Egyptian government and any Egyptian citizens that supports it worse than the Jews. Because you expect this sort of thing from your enemies but not from your own Arab brethren.
In all the years this horrible Nakba has been inflicted upon the innocent Palestinian people they have never seen it so bad as it is now in regard to their own fellow surrounding Arab people joining hands with the devil zionist colonists and aiding them in the total destruction and elimination of the Palestinian people.
Shame shame shame on Egypt. Shame shame shame on the whole world.
Long live Palestine
To resist is to exist
Even if it takes a thousand years.
And even when you have to do it all alone.
The whole aim of Israel and the Jews is to starve Palestinians in Gaza to death, impoverish them to the point of total submission and subserviency to Israel which is hoping Palestinians will all decide to leave.
Egypt under their new Jewish Pharaoh Al Sisi is assisting in their inhuman besiegement of Gaza and the other Jews, the Saudis count their blessings as they now openly ask their JEWISH COUSINS in Israel, that has been militarily ‘superior’ for their
“proficient in this kind of warfare through decades in their confrontations with Lebanese and Palestinian militias and to my delight’ to send its pilots with such @military ‘prowess’ to bomb more impoverished Yemenis [ which they’ve been doing anyway covertly]. Target more Civilians.- men women and children something Israel indeed is a military expert at.
I leave the last words to the Satanist Zionist Arab Jubeir- Saudi foreign minister: “we are in dire need of Israeli military assistance to defeat Yemeni rebels; after all we are historically cousins.” with whom he wants the world to see they have a happy ‘co existence.’
Welcome to Eretz Israel.
Many people never believed that those so called “Rockets from Hamas” were real. Those so called Rockets are the work of Israel to blame it on Hamas in order to genocide periodically the remaining of the Palestinian people.
__ Meanwhile, last Friday evening, two rockets were launched from Gaza towards Israel. One hit the town of Sderot but did not cause any casualties. The second, which was aimed at Ashkelon, was intercepted by an Iron Dome missile defence battery. __
As always, total Israeli media fabrication.
There weren’t any in 2008/09, 2012, and 2014.