IDF warns 100,000 Gaza residents to evacuate homes

[Jefferson23]

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By Haaretz | Jul. 16, 2014 12:40 AM

Israel's security cabinet convened at 9 P.M. on Tuesday, 12 hours after accepting an Egyptian cease-fire proposal. Several Hamas officials rejected the proposal, but sources said that Hamas was holding talks with Egypt on the matter and an official statement by the Hamas political leadership is expected later Tuesday.

Hamas fire intensified over the course of the day, with rockets lobbied at south, central and north Israel. A civilian was critically wounded in the evening from shrapnel near the Erez Crossing, on the Gaza border.

Since the operation began, Israel has launched more than 1,300 air strikes in Gaza which killed 192 Palestinians and wounded more than 1,100 people. Gaza hospitals are reporting a dire shortage of medicine and equipment, particularly for trauma injuries.

More than 900 rockets and mortars have landed within Israel. Only a fraction landed in urban regions. The Iron Dome, which is only meant to intercept rockets that are headed for such areas, has an 87 percent success rate and has shot down 180 rockets over the course of the operation.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.605161

[HooptieWagon]

1. Where are they supposed to go?

[earthside]

2. Looks like Hamas is doing a better job of 'aiming' ...

... their missiles at non-urban, non-civilian 'targets' than the IDF.

[arcane1]

3. Evacuate their homes to what end? What is the purpose?

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

4. So the IDF can "Corrie" them in the streets. What else?

[King_David]

5. Hamas rejected a ceasefire

Too terrible.