Saturday, August 23, 2014

Israel: Hamas ‘will pay’ for deadly mortar attack

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday vowed harsh retribution against Hamas, after a mortar round fired from the Palestinian territory killed an Israeli child.
“Hamas will pay a heavy price for this attack,” Netanyahu's spokesman Ofir Gendelman cited the prime minster as saying on his Twitter account, adding that the Israeli army and Shin Bet internal security service would "intensify ops against Hamas until the goal of "ProtectiveEdge" is achieved".

The 4-year-old Israeli boy is the first Israeli child killed in the conflict between Israel and Gaza-based Palestinian factions since the beginning of Israel’s operation “Protective Edge” against the Palestinian enclave on July 8.

More than 2,000 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict, most of them civilians.
Hostilities between the rivals flared once more after a breakdown in Egypt-sponsored truce talks earlier this week.

Hamas Friday said it executed 18 people suspected of being informants for Israel, a day after losing three losing three of its top military commanders in an Israeli airstrike.
The victims, their heads covered and hands tied, were shot dead by masked gunmen dressed in black in front of a crowd of worshippers outside a mosque after prayers, witnesses and al-Majd, a pro-Hamas website, said....................http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/08/22/EU-U-S-mull-U-N-resolution-on-Gaza-truce-.html
22/8/14
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