From the AP:
“Israel responds to explosive
balloons with tank fire on Gaza”
The Israeli military said it
struck militant targets in Gaza early on Sunday in response to continued
launches of explosives-laden balloons out of the Hamas-run territory. There
were no immediate reports of casualties on either side. But the violence comes at
a time when Gaza is struggling with a worsening economic crisis and a new
outbreak of the coronavirus. Hamas-linked groups have launched a wave of
incendiary balloons into Israel in recent weeks, torching wide swaths of
farmland. Israel has responded with airstrikes and other attacks. The army said
Sunday's tank fire struck Hamas “military posts” in southern Gaza, without
elaborating. Hamas is pressing Israel to ease its blockade on Gaza and allow
large-scale development projects. Egypt and Qatar are trying to shore up an
informal cease-fire. Those efforts have grown more urgent in recent days as
authorities in Gaza have detected the first cases of local transmission of the
coronavirus. Hamas has imposed a lockdown in the coastal territory bordering Israel
and Egypt, which is home to 2 million Palestinians. Israel and Egypt imposed a
blockade on Gaza after Hamas seized power from rival Palestinian forces in
2007. Israel says the blockade is needed to keep Hamas from building up its
arsenal, but critics view it as a form of collective punishment. Israel and Hamas
have fought three wars and several smaller battles since the closure was
imposed. The restrictions have pushed the local economy to the brink of
collapse, and years of war and isolation have left the health care system
ill-equipped to cope with a major outbreak. In response to the recent attacks,
Israel closed Gaza’s sole commercial crossing, forcing its only power station
to shut down for lack of fuel and leaving Gazans with just a few hours of
electricity a day. Israel has also closed the coastal territory’s fishing zone.
The U.N.'s Mideast envoy, Nickolay Mladenov, last week warned the situation is
“rapidly deteriorating.”
^ It is because of these continued
attacks by the Palestinians in Gaza and their elected Hamas Terrorist
Government that no one should feel sorry for the situation in Gaza (the
economic slump, Covid-19, the retaliatory attacks from Israel, etc.) As long as
the Gazans openly support terrorism and continue to attack Israel then they (the
Gazans) should be considered as terrorists themselves and treated as such. ^
https://news.yahoo.com/israel-responds-explosive-balloons-tank-073036544.html
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