Hamas militants fired a barrage of rockets and mortar shells toward Israel on Tuesday and said they considered a five-month truce with Israel to have ended.
The rockets fell after nine Palestinians were killed in fighting with Israel over the weekend. Most of the dead were militants, but Palestinians said at least two civilians, including a 17-year-old girl, were killed.
There's always innocents killed when Israel strikes back, because the militants choose to operate in areas where civilians live and work. They launch their strikes from those areas, so as to invite retaliation, whereby innocents can and will be killed for propaganda purposes. No real surprise here.
A spokesman for Hamas' armed wing said the group considered the truce to have ended.
"The cease-fire has been over for a long time, and Israel is responsible for that," the spokesman, Abu Obeida, told the Voice of Palestine radio station.
Once again, Hamas breaks the truce, but somehow it's all Israel's fault. Israel sent rockets into Gaza completely undetected by a hostile world media? Now, the "peace loving" people that comprise the terror group Hamas want us all to believe that they were defending themselves, again? How can the anti-israel lobbies reconcile this?
If you read the rest of the article, you may reach the same conclusion on this situation, as me. Infighting among the Palestinians is usually best settled by drumming up a crisis with Israel. Fire rockets, invite an almost guaranteed response, and blame Israel more, that is the formula so often used by Islamic terror groups. It keeps the attention diverted from the real problems the Palestinians face, daily.
3 comments:
LAS, yes, it is Israel's fault, but you forgot to mention who else is to blame: America. Israel + America = all the world's ills. Wake up and smell the coffee, buddy! ;)
I'm sure things will improve once the awful decision to cut off funding to the terrorist neo-nazi death cult - I mean "political wing" of Hamas - is reversed. Once money starts pouring in again, I promise you that the Palestinians will start concentrating on building infrastructure and establishing security in the areas they control. We can all be sure none of the money will go towards trying to kill jewish civilians or teaching their children that jews are the decendants of pigs and dgos.
Boy, I'm feeling pretty sarcastic today!
Greg
//Once money starts pouring in again, I promise you that the Palestinians will start concentrating on building infrastructure and establishing security in the areas they control.//
And my uncle plays lead guitar for The Who.
;)
And I once walked on the moon
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