Israeli Strike Kills Wife, Daughter of Hamas Military Leader

[Purveyor]

By Calev Ben-David and Fadwa Hodali Aug 20, 2014 12:41 PM ET

Israeli aircraft struck a Gaza Strip home where the family of Hamas’s military chief was staying, after an Egyptian-brokered truce seeking to end more than a month of hostilities collapsed.

Mohammed Deif’s wife and daughter were killed in the strike, Mussa Abu Marzuk, a political leader of Gaza’s ruling Hamas group, wrote in a Facebook post, adding that Deif was “still alive.” He didn’t say whether the militant commander had been inside the home at the time. The Israeli army had no comment on whether Deif, who has survived several Israeli assassination attempts, had been targeted.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a meeting of his inner security cabinet to decide on further military action as Palestinian militants in Gaza continued for fire rockets at Israel. Housing Minister Uri Ariel called for another Israeli ground offensive to be carried out “soon, strongly and quickly.” Speaking to Channel 2 television, Ariel said the air raids against Gaza since yesterday “have not brought quiet” to Israel.

The latest surge in violence occurred after Israeli and Palestinian negotiators in Cairo failed yesterday to extend a temporary cease-fire that had lasted nine days before unraveling amid renewed rocket fire at Israel from Gaza and retaliatory Israeli air raids. Fighting since early July has killed more than 2,000 Palestinians, including hundreds of civilians, and 67 people on the Israeli side, all but three of them soldiers.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-20/israeli-gaza-strike-kills-relatives-of-hamas-military-commander.html

[Fred Sanders]

1. Precision baby killer missiles delivered by the world's most humane baby killer army.

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. Imagine the squawking in Israel if somebody returned the favor.

[4now]

3. The IDF is very good at killing innocent children

and their mothers.

"Today I saw a picture of a weeping Palestinian man holding a plastic carrier bag of meat. It was his son. He’d been shredded (the hospital’s word) by an Israeli missile attack – apparently using their fab new weapon, fléchette bombs. You probably know what those are – hundreds of small steel darts packed around explosive which tear the flesh off humans. The boy was Mohammed Khalaf al-Nawasra. He was four years old.
I suddenly found myself thinking that it could have been one of my kids in that bag, and that thought upset me more than anything has for a long time."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025353523

[Stallion]

4. Horrible-But Just Think How Much Shorter Wars Would Be if Bombs Were Aimed at those Who Advocate War

Let's line up Cheney, Wolfy, and Rumsfeld for the Red and Blue Targets

[malaise]

5. We have a proverb

Same knife stick goat stick sheep.

I'll lave Bibi to time. There will be justice for these war crimes no matter who supports him.