Gaza Strip
“We are not the enemies of the Gazan people,” said Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz. “The real enemy is Hamas.”
The increased Israeli monitoring of imports to the Gaza Strip is focused on specific Arab importers that have links to terrorist groups.
It was the first rocket fired by Gaza terrorists since the end of Israel’s “Operation Guardian of the Walls” in May.
Israeli forces come under heavy fire after arresting a wanted terrorist • Palestinian factions in Jenin declare a general strike • P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas warns of “explosion.”
The terror group has pledged that unless its demands are met, border riots and cross-border arson attacks will resume, according to Palestinian media.
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan notes that “4,000 Palestinian kids can’t go to school because of Hamas.”
The rocket-launching site was located in a civilian area, “once again emphasizing how Hamas endangers Palestinian civilians,” says the Israeli military.
They seem to be concerned by the prospect of being exposed to terror-financing legal action.
Hamas is known to blur the lines between those who died of natural causes and those who died in the war • “The New York Times” provides a case study of inaccurate reporting on casualties among Palestinian children.
The Israel Defense Forces called the explosion an “internal” matter.
Mordechai Better, director of the Gush Katif Commemoration Center who lived in the Gaza Strip for 26 years, recalled “there was talk at the time of civil war—of shooting, of violence—but our public said we won’t raise a hand against soldiers. We won’t be violent. We won’t shoot. We will do everything we can to convince through words.”
Israel’s Defense Minister says the past year’s progress against the pandemic “proves once again that when the common good is at stake, every pandemic and challenge can be overcome.”
