Hamas is not Gaza, and Gaza is not Palestine.

[Bull_ok]

These were the words of Egyptian diplomat , who started his report with the following words :"We have a historical responsibility toward the Palestinians".


Secretary of State John Kerry’s attempts to sideline Egypt in Israel-Hamas cease-fire talks has forced the Egyptian government to move closer to Hamas’ positions in Gaza.

Does it mean the weakening of US international authority and the restriction sphere of influence in the Mideast conflict in particular ?

 

[waltky]

Israel strikes Gaza for Hamas rocket attacks against Sderot...

Israeli Airstrikes Hit Gaza After Hamas Launches Rocket Attacks
August 9, 2018 • At least three people are reportedly dead and a dozen injured in the Gaza Strip, while at least 11 people reportedly were wounded when Hamas rockets landed in the southern Israeli city of Sderot.

Israeli jets pounded targets in the Gaza Strip early Thursday, reportedly killing three people after Palestinian militants fired a barrage of rockets into Israel. The Gaza Health Ministry said a pregnant woman, her 18-month-old child and a Hamas militant were killed. The Palestinian news agency WAFA cited health officials as confirming that a dozen other Palestinians were wounded in the airstrikes. The Israeli attacks came in apparent retaliation for the launching of about 150 rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel, wounding 11 Israelis, according to Haaretz. The rockets landed in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, where nine residents were taken to the hospital, including a woman in serious condition, the newspaper reports.

An explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City early Thursday.​

Hamas claimed responsibility for the rocket attack and a tweet issued by a spokesman for the militant group, Abdullatif al-Kanoo, was translated by Al Jazeera as saying that the Palestinian resistance "is in self-defense and has a duty to respond to the aggression against our people." "The escalation of the barbaric shelling of Gaza and the deliberate targeting of civilians [by Israel] is premeditated and the [Israeli] occupation will suffer the repercussions and pay a higher price for its crimes," he said, according to the news service.

A senior Israeli Defense Forces official warned Hamas in a tweet that it "will understand in the coming hours, as in the past months, that this is not the direction it wants to chose." Hamas wants an Israeli-Egyptian border blockade to be lifted, while Israel is demanding an end to the rocket attacks, border protests and the launching of incendiary balloons over the border. Despite the escalation between the two sides, The Associated Press quotes an unnamed Hamas official as saying that cease-fire talks were in their final stage even though disagreements persisted. He said Israel has offered only an easing, but not an end, to the blockade.

Israeli Airstrikes Hit Gaza After Hamas Launches Rocket Attacks

 

[Roudy]

The Islamic terrorist group known as Hamas runs Gaza, and, was elected to run both Gaza and the West Bank (however Abbas did not relinquish power) recently. That's how stupid the Palestinians are.

 

[Indeependent]

These were the words of Egyptian diplomat , who started his report with the following words :"We have a historical responsibility toward the Palestinians".


Secretary of State John Kerry’s attempts to sideline Egypt in Israel-Hamas cease-fire talks has forced the Egyptian government to move closer to Hamas’ positions in Gaza.

Does it mean the weakening of US international authority and the restriction sphere of influence in the Mideast conflict in particular ?

Link?
Egypt has been using Israel security forces to reign in Gazans.

 

[Mindful]

Gazans could have had a Taiwan, a Hong Kong, a Singapore sur-le-Méditerranée. But instead, with virulent malice aforethought, repeatedly chose Iran, ISIS, and Hezbollah as a national template.

Remember: in the name of peace, Israel left every inch of Gaza in 2005, pulling out some 9,000 residents, cattle, cars, and even coffins – all in order to give Gazans a chance at showing what they’d do with the opportunity – a unprecendented gesture in Israeli, or possibly any other nation’s, history.

Thousands of dollars of infrastructure, greenhouses and farms, looted donations, buildings, and torched and desecrated a string of synagogues left behind. They started a rocket war against close to a million civilians throughout southern and central Israel with tens of thousands of Kassam and Grad rockets and mortar shells, killing dozens and maiming hundreds, and leaving an entire generation suffering clinical levels of PTSD and other conflict-related ailments.

They dug some 40 terror attack tunnels beneath and into Israel, only a percentage of which have been discovered and destroyed. But not to worry – they’re still digging.

Media Deploying DU (Depleted Urgency) Rounds Against Israel

 

[member]

The Islamic terrorist group known as Hamas runs Gaza, and, was elected to run both Gaza and the West Bank (however Abbas did not relinquish power) recently. That's how stupid the Palestinians are.

It's true. - Hamass are terrorists. Palestinians need to elect new leaders - or - there won't EVER be "PEACE."


what's-his-face up there ........... brrrrrr. as log as palestinian "theatre-group people" and other non-Terrorist-palestinians live under the thumb of terrorists and HIM, on and on the rockets & kite bombs will fly -- and the retaliation will continue. Israel has the right to defend itself from backward terrorists -- as does the rest of the sane world.............