What a way to start Ramadan: over 600 rockets have been fired at Israeli citizens from Gaza, racking up the death toll.
“Ramadan is the month of Jihad, the month when Muslims strive to please Allah more fervently.”
“The death toll continues to rise …on both sides of the Israel-Gaza border in one of the most intense flare-ups of violence in the region in years.” It is important to finally have an American President who fully understands the Islamic jihad against the Jewish state of Israel–a jihad war that began in 1948 and it has continued ever since.
President Trump tweeted out:
“Once again, Israel faces a barrage of deadly rocket attacks by terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad. We support Israel 100% in its defense of its citizens… To the Gazan people — these terrorist acts against Israel will bring you nothing but more misery. END the violence and work towards peace – it can happen!”
In the course of Israel’s retaliatory attacks there will inevitably be higher numbers of casualties on the Palestinian side–given the sophistication of the Israeli military–of which the Palestinian leadership will use as a propaganda tool against Israel. Each time, violent attacks come from the Palestinian side, are then met with retaliatory maneuvers and each time, Israel is wrongly accused of being the aggressor. It is now a commonplace phenomenon.
It is a macabre routine for pictures of injured and even dead Palestinian children to be paraded in the media precisely to raise vexation against Israel. Yet there is no compassion on the part of the Palestinian leadership (and Hamas) toward the injured and lost lives. Palestinian women and children are routinely used as human shields, while weapons are often stored in hospitals, civilian homes, mosques and schools with the obscene intention of escalating the death toll in the war of propaganda.
“More than 600 rockets fired at Israel from Gaza in less than 24 hours, death toll rises”, by Talia Kaplan, Fox News, May 6, 2019:
The death toll continues to rise Sunday on both sides of the Israel-Gaza border in one of the most intense flare-ups of violence in the region in years, shattering a month-long lull in attacks.
Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired more than 600 rockets into southern Israel in less than 24 hours, killing at least four Israelis and leaving several more in critical condition.
Israel has retaliated with dozens of airstrikes against militant sites in Gaza. More than a dozen Palestinians, including a pregnant woman and her 14-month old niece, have also been killed.
According to Haaretz, four Israeli men and 16 Palestinians were killed so far since tensions increased along the border on Friday. Four Israelis were also wounded as rockets fell on the Israeli south on Saturday.
President Trump reacted Sunday night on Twitter: “Once again, Israel faces a barrage of deadly rocket attacks by terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad. We support Israel 100% in its defense of its citizens… To the Gazan people — these terrorist acts against Israel will bring you nothing but more misery. END the violence and work towards peace – it can happen!”
On Sunday, the Israeli military said a misfired Palestinian rocket — not an Israeli airstrike — caused the death of a pregnant Palestinian woman and her infant niece in the Gaza Strip, disputing the Gaza Health Ministry’s statement that Israel is to blame.
According to the Israeli military, Israeli forces struck dozens of targets in Gaza, including militant sites that were concealed in residential areas. Israeli military spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus said Israel’s strikes hit a variety of “high-quality” militant sites, including commanders’ homes in which militant activity was observed.
Israeli medical officials said an early morning rocket from Gaza Sunday killed an Israeli father of four, 58-year-old Moshe Agadi, outside a home in the coastal city of Ashkelon.
Agadi reportedly died of his injuries after he was struck by shrapnel, marking the first Israeli casualty from rocket fire since the 2014 war with Hamas militants…..