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Showing posts with label IAF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IAF. Show all posts

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Accepting truce was a courageous move

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Op-ed: Netanyahu did the right thing when he agreed to hold fire. Has Israel's power of deterrence suffered in any way because of a few hours of ceasefire?
Published: 07.17.14, 01:01 / Israel Opinion

If an Israeli citizen hadn't been killed Tuesday at the Erez border crossing, one could have said that the first Israeli victim of this war was the deputy defense minister.


Protective Edge
Failed truce seen as opportunity to thwart tunnel threat / Yossi Yehoshua
Analysis: IDF echelon is pushing for a limited ground operation in Gaza in a bid to locate dozens of tunnels Hamas is planning to use for major terror attacks inside Israel.
Full analysis
Some will say that Netanyahu was just waiting for an opportunity to get rid of Danon. If that's true – and it is true – he found a good reason. When it involved political issues, it was annoying, troubling, but tolerable. But not when it involves security-related issues, in the midst of a war, as the deputy minister in the ministry he is criticizing.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4544592,00.html

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

VIDEO: Lt. Col. Peter Lerner on the IDF's Challenges in Fighting Hamas

Watch the Muslims cheer now - Israeli civilian has been killed

An Israeli civilian has been killed by a rocket from Gaza at the Erez crossing near the border between the two conflicting sides, according to the IDF. They will go nuts, watch. 




VIDEO: Hamas, the millionaires' club


Hamas got rich as Gaza was plunged into poverty


With multi-million-dollar land deals, luxury villas and black market fuel from Egypt, Gaza's rulers made billions while the rest of the population struggled with 38-percent poverty and 40-percent unemployment.
Doron Peskin
Published: 07.15.14, 16:12 / Israel News

While the fighting is only expected to worsen the distress of the residents of Gaza, the Strip's economic outlook for the Strip was never good. The unemployment rate in Gaza stood at approximately 40% before the latest conflict, with a similar proportion being classed as living under the poverty line.


But while most of the Gaza population tries to deal with the difficulties of daily life, it seems that one sector at least has had few worries about their livelihoods - Hamas leaders and their associates.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4543634,00.html

Kerry Slams Hamas Rocket Fire

Reuters

Netanyahu says Hamas rejection of the truce 'gives Israel full legitimacy to expand the operation.'
Reuters
Latest Update: 07.15.14, 15:47 / Israel News

US Secretary of State John Kerry condemned Hamas militants on Tuesday for firing rockets from the Gaza Strip, after Israel had accepted a truce proposed by Egypt.


"I cannot condemn strongly enough the actions of Hamas in so brazenly firing rockets, in multiple numbers, in the face of a goodwill effort (to secure) a ceasefire," Kerry told a news conference in Vienna.


Ceaseless barrages of rockets lead to resumption of IAF strike

ynetnews.com


Senior army official says ground offensive necessary to combat terror tunnels. It could take between a week and two weeks, and has high chances of being successful.
Yoav Zitun
Latest Update: 07.15.14, 15:27 / Israel News

The ceaseless barrages of rockets after the unilateral truce has led the IDF to resume its aerial strikes in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday afternoon.
  

The resumption of aerial strikes might just be the first step towards a ground offensive, which seemed like a long-shot this morning when the cabinet accepted the Egyptian ceasefire proposal.

"A ground offensive could help combat the many tunnels in the Strip, where the Air Force is not effective," the senior official told reporters.