DonLever Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Update: august 26, 2014 from wall street journal Israel has agreed to an open-ended cease-fire in its seven-week military confrontation with Hamas, a senior Israeli official said Tuesday. The official said Hamas' demands for a seaport, an airport and the release of prisoners held in Israeli jails would be discussed in coming days in indirect talks in Cairo, along with Israel's demands for the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators would aim to reach a detailed accord within a month, the official said. Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, said earlier Tuesday the Islamist movement had agreed to an Egyptian-brokered deal to end the fighting. The latest truce went into effect at 7 p.m. local time, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Fighting between Israel and the Islamist movement that rules the Gaza Strip continued in the hours leading up to the accord. Israeli warplanes destroyed one high-rise building in Gaza City and severely damaged another, further escalating its pressure on Hamas. Residents of the 15-story Al Basha Tower and the 17-story Italian Complex were evacuated after receiving telephone warnings of the imminent airstrikes. The callers, some speaking only rudimentary Arabic, were assumed by residents to be Israeli military personnel. The attacks leveled the Al Basha Tower, an office building, and razed all but a quarter of the Italian Complex, a mixed-used development. Israel said the buildings were used by Palestinian militants as command centers. Twenty-five people were wounded in bombing of the shops, offices and apartments that made up the Italian Complex, said Ashraf al-Kidra, a spokesman for the Gaza Health Ministry JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday instructed the military to begin a ground offensive in Gaza, an official statement from his office said. "The prime minister and defense minister have instructed the IDF to begin a ground operation tonight in order to hit the terror tunnels from Gaza into Israel," the statement said. Reuters witnesses and Gaza residents reported heavy artillery and naval shelling along the Gaza border. Israeli Defense Forces and Palestinian militants resumed hostilities in Gaza on Thursday after a temporary humanitarian cease-fire came to an end. Meanwhile, talks on a more comprehensive truce are underway in Egypt. Palestinian civilians received a brief reprieve from 10 days of conflict after Israel and Hamas agreed to a U.N. proposal to allow for humanitarian movement. But U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator for the Palestinian Territories James Rawley tells VOA the violence resumed shortly after the cease-fire expired. "Rockets have been going out of Gaza and airstrikes and naval bombardment has resumed on Gaza," he said, "so once again the people of Gaza are suffering and probably dying, and the people of Israel are also being victimized by rockets and mortars going out of Gaza."Deserted streets The streets of Gaza have been virtually deserted since Israeli military operations targeting Hamas began last week, as residents have stayed home or have sought protection at U.N. schools. But for a brief time during Thursday's truce, Rawley says, citizens were able to go shopping or go to the bank, while some vital repairs were done to electrical and water facilities. "It only was a pause of five hours, it was respected for the most part by all parties, which is good," he said, "but it is a pity that as soon as the pause is over, the hostilities have resumed." Israeli Defense Forces have been pounding Gaza with airstrikes and offshore assaults, while militants in the Palestinian territory have launched a continuous barrage of rocket fire into southern Israel. U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki asked Israel to redouble efforts to prevent civilian casualties. She described an attack that killed four Palestinian children playing on a Gaza beach as "horrifying." Mourners in Gaza buried three of the Palestinian children Thursday. Israeli officials called the deaths "tragic" and said they were investigating. More than 220 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict, while one Israeli citizen has died. The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) reported 20 rockets were discovered hidden in a vacant school in Gaza. A statement from UNRWA said this was the first time weapons have been found in their facilities. The abduction and suspected revenge killing of a Palestinian youth sparked intense clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces in East Jerusalem, raising the spectre of wider violence two days after three kidnapped Israeli teenagers were found dead in the occupied West Bank. Israeli police said late on Wednesday that they had yet to confirm the circumstances of 16-year-old Mohammad Abu Khieder's disappearance or identify a badly burned body found in a forest outside Jerusalem, but Israeli news media, citing anonymous security officials, said authorities had determined that Mohammad was probably killed by Jews in a "nationalistic crime". The killing of the teenager set off fierce riots in the ordinarily quiet and relatively well-to-do East Jerusalem neighbourhood where he lived, threatening to ignite broader unrest and underlining deep fissures in Israeli society Palestinian protesters hurled firebombs and stones at Israeli police officers and soldiers and smashed and set fire to transit stops in the neighbourhood. Israeli forces responded with tear gas, rubber bullets and smoke grenades. Clashes were continuing but had calmed somewhat, witnesses said. Advertisement Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for restraint as he convened his security cabinet for the third straight night to discuss a response to the kidnappings and killings. Israel has blamed the slaying of the Israeli teens on the militant Islamist group Hamas, and on Wednesday, Palestinian leaders accused extremist Jewish settlers of killing Khieder. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned settlers for "killing and burning a little boy". He demanded that Israel "hold the killers accountable". The killing of Khieder occurred a day after Israel buried the three teenagers - Naftali Fraenkel, 16, Gilad Shaar, 16, and Eyal Yifrach, 19 - who disappeared on June 12 while hitchhiking home from their religious schools in the West Bank. Their bodies were discovered on Monday in a field near the city of Hebron, prompting a national outpouring of anger and grief. Relatives of Khieder said he was abducted about 4am while waiting alone outside his home for the early-morning call to prayer. Bushra Abu Khieder, his aunt, said a surveillance camera at her husband's nearby store recorded the scene, which showed a car being driven toward her nephew and turning around three times. When it stopped, one of the passengers approached him, asked a question and then grabbed him and pushed him into the car, she said. Israeli police said they were reviewing the footage. Khieder's mother, Suha Abu Khieder, told reporters that her son had been "robbed from my lap". Referring to the murdered Israeli teens, she said: "Their sons were important to them, just like my son is important to me". Yishai Fraenkel, the father of one of the slain Israeli teens, condemned the Palestinian youth's killing. "There is no difference between blood and blood," he told Israeli reporters. "A murderer is a murderer, no matter his nationality and age.'' Israel's Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said if Khieder was the victim of a reprisal killing it amounted to "an act of terrorism". Mr Netanyahu urged police to "swiftly investigate who was behind the loathsome murder and its motive" and called on all sides "not to take the law into their own hands". Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/fears-of-more-violence-after-suspected-revenge-killing-of-palestinian-teen-20140703-zsu1x.html#ixzz36Na3bgSU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogerEpic5 Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 So Israel had it's "revenge" on a Palestinian 16 year old teenager who had a life ahead of him. Just like those 3 Jewish teens who were bitterly slayed. It's sad. And I hope God can help these two sides work with one another someday. The Palestine and Israel "war" has gone far enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostsof1915 Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 An eye for an eye just makes people blind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragon4401 Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 and while these two get ready for a full out war groups like ISIS sit on the sidelines waiting for the perfect time to strike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombieksa Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Until the two sides stop teaching hatred to their kids it'll never end. These two have been at each other's throats so long I am surprised one side hasn't destroyed the other. I just don't see this sort of stuff ending between the Israelis and Palestinians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gross-Misconduct Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 This whole thing was doomed from the very beginning. On 14 May 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization[9] and president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared "the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel," a state independent upon the termination of the British Mandate for Palestine, 15 May 1948.[10][11][12] Neighboring Arab armies invaded Palestine on the next day and fought the Israeli forces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthNinja Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Israel is a state founded on terrorism by terrorists. Their founding leaders acknowledge they were proud to be called 'terrorists'. Up until this day that philosophy has remained par for the course. Who was it that offered a military alliance with the Nazis to fight the British and force them to leave Palestine again? Oh ya, zionist terrorist groups whose leaders went on to become Presidents or Prime Ministers of Israel. Which country was it again that honoured and celebrated terrorists who bombed the King David Hotel and terrorists that did the Lavon Affair bombings made to look like Arab/Muslim terror attacks in order to go to war against Egypt? Which country has the most UN Security Council resolutions against it in the entire world? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILL BILL NECRO Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 durka durka Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanadianLoonie Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Fast-forward 30 seconds in for my thoughts on the matter... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nucklehead Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 So Israel had it's "revenge" on a Palestinian 16 year old teenager who had a life ahead of him. Just like those 3 Jewish teens who were bitterly slayed. It's sad. And I hope God can help these two sides work with one another someday. The Palestine and Israel "war" has gone far enough. The only thing god can do is "sort em out". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Aerosex Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 "Yishai Fraenkel, the father of one of the slain Israeli teens, condemned the Palestinian youth's killing. "There is no difference between blood and blood," he told Israeli reporters. "A murderer is a murderer, no matter his nationality and age.''" Nice to see at least somebody's got it right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Tamland Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 This whole thing was doomed from the very beginning. On 14 May 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionist Organization[9] and president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared "the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel," a state independent upon the termination of the British Mandate for Palestine, 15 May 1948.[10][11][12] Neighboring Arab armies invaded Palestine on the next day and fought the Israeli forces. Haha, you need to go further back then 1948 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jester13 Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 Haha, you need to go further back then 1948 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duc_evo Posted July 5, 2014 Share Posted July 5, 2014 We have soo much potential as being to most advance beings that has walk this earth to my knowledge. When will the Jewish Zonist realize that every death of a human being is a disgrace to all humans and Jews in general. When people start to think that we are all humans rather than "I'm a jew" or "I'm from palatine". Then wars will be the thing of the past. I don't see peace in my life time, as longs as adults teach their children hate and racism. The cycle will never end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Tamland Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 We have soo much potential as being to most advance beings that has walk this earth to my knowledge. When will the Jewish Zonist realize that every death of a human being is a disgrace to all humans and Jews in general. When people start to think that we are all humans rather than "I'm a jew" or "I'm from palatine". Then wars will be the thing of the past. I don't see peace in my life time, as longs as adults teach their children hate and racism. The cycle will never end. When one side feels the other side has no right to exist (as most of the neighbours do as well), pretty hard to think of peace. Imagine if on your street 9 of the 10 houses thought you should be dead. Pretty uncomfortable. Israel isn't necessarily innocent, but they are a target for everyone there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthNinja Posted July 6, 2014 Share Posted July 6, 2014 When one side feels the other side has no right to exist (as most of the neighbours do as well), pretty hard to think of peace. Imagine if on your street 9 of the 10 houses thought you should be dead. Pretty uncomfortable. Israel isn't necessarily innocent, but they are a target for everyone there. Perhaps they feel that way because there was no such thing as Israel just a few decades ago and it was artificially supplanted onto another nation through terrorism, bloodshed and forced removal. Yeah, no right to exist. Now excuse them because they have some homes to bulldoze (with the family still inside). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jester13 Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 I'll never understand how some people will support self-determination of the Palestinians, Kurds, First Nations, or countries all throughout Africa, for example, yet when it comes to the self-determination of Jews they choose to deny them their rights. What gives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raoul Duke Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 Sounds really awesome over there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugor Hill Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 Palestinian kids have been systematically arrested, tortured and jailed over the past year or so by the Israeli army. This 45 min Australian documentary contains content that will offend some viewers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugor Hill Posted July 8, 2014 Share Posted July 8, 2014 I'll never understand how some people will support self-determination of the Palestinians, Kurds, First Nations, or countries all throughout Africa, for example, yet when it comes to the self-determination of Jews they choose to deny them their rights. What gives? No one is denying THAT right as they have had it for a long time already. What they are seeking now is a complete eradication of non-Jewish people in their territory. It's an oppressive two-tier country based on race. It's apartheid. I'm waiting for taxi to come on here and justify all of this based on self-defence against the Hamas. Even the good Jewish families of the victims know better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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