Fragile cease-fire between Israel, Gaza militants holding

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By FARES AKRAM and TIA GOLDENBERG

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A fragile cease-fire deal to end nearly three days of fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza held into Monday morning — a sign the latest round of violence may have abated.

The flare-up was the worst fighting between Israel and Gaza militant groups since Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers fought an 11-day war last year, adding to the destruction and misery that have plagued blockaded Gaza for years.

Since Friday, Israeli aircraft had pummeled targets in Gaza while the Iran-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group fired hundreds of rockets at Israel.

Over three days of fighting, 44 Palestinians were killed, including 15 children and four women, and 311 were wounded, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. Islamic Jihad said 12 of those killed were militants and Israel said some of the dead were killed by misfired rockets.



Palestinians inspect their house which was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Monday, Aug. 8, 2022. A cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian militants has taken effect late Sunday in a bid to end nearly three days of violence that has killed dozens of Palestinians. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-israel-united-nations-blockades-d8cbcf0ff9e1a5ee830636fd8d81f06a

[Alexander Of Assyria]

1. How can it be a "round of violence" when the violence is all one way, the deaths and destruction

all on one side? Answer that AP!?

How many casualties and loss of life of children and innocents and destruction of houses and apartment blocks on the other side? Lopsided “war”, lopsided media.
Buehler?

[Beastly Boy]

2. This must be a sick joke

Hundreds of rockets fired on civilian targets doesn't count as violence being perpetrated by Islamic Jihad? A declaration to destroy Israel spelled out in their charter gives you no clue? Published pledges by militants bent on destroying a sovereign state to avenge the deaths of militants bent on destroying a sovereign state doesn't wreak of violence to you?

I give up.

[DavidDvorkin]

3. On DU, it's always seen as one-sided.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

5. 16 children dead, dozens of other innocents DEAD, on one side...and on the other?? 0

So there is sickness, for sure.
But… 2 terrorists dead, great!…tho surely sick to advance that is a balance Man or God would think is ok.

[Beastly Boy]

6. Correlation does not equal causation.

Absolving the guilty from blame is as sick as the death of 16 children, no matter which side the deaths are on.

Having no deaths on one side is praiseworthy. It certainly wasn't for the lack of trying. Blaming Israel for protecting their innocents is just as sick as excusing Islamic Jihad from disregarding the safety of theirs. You got it exactly wrong in this respect. Death is not a transaction. Insisting that there needs to be equal measure of death on both sides to satisfy your sensibilities is insane. Yet you keep doing it: you measure the guilt of Israel exclusively by the lack of casualties on its side, and the innocence of Islamic Jihad exclusively by their presence, with absolutely no regard to any other circumstance of the conflict. You are implying that Islamic Jihad bares no responsibility for knowingly and willingly putting their own people in the line of fire, and that Israel is to blame for protecting theirs. That's some twisted logic.

[Hieronymus Phact]

4. It seems

The Palestinians and Israelis can "hold the peace" better than some in this forum.