Archive for November 2, 2019

Palestinian killed by IDF response to Friday night’s rocket barrage from Gaza

In crazy Hamas ‘logic’ the Palestinian terror group threatens to respond to “Israeli aggression” following the IDF’s retaliatory response to the barrage of rockets fired Friday night by Gaza militants at Israeli civilian communities in southern Israel.

By Ynet, Reuters

 

Israeli military carried out a wave of pre-dawn air strikes in Gaza in response to a barrage of rockets fired by Palestinian militants at Israeli communities bordering the Hamas-controlled enclave, IDF officials said.

Gaza health officials said the strikes left one Palestinian dead and three others wounded.

The officials in the Strip said the 27-year-old was killed during an air strike on a militant training camp and that he had died in hospital. Continue Reading »

Barrage of Gaza rockets fired on southern Israel, Iron Dome intercepts 8

IDF reports 8 rockets from the barrage were intercepted by the Iron Dome aerial defense system with one of the projectiles landing directly on a home in Sderot.
– 65 yr-old woman was evacuated to hospital for shock.

By i24NEWS – AFP

 

A 65-year-old woman has reportedly been evacuated to a nearby hospital for shock after a projectile fired from the Gaza Strip landed on her home in the southern Israeli town of Sderot. Amateur footage also shows several vehicles damaged in the incident.

The IDF on Friday destroyed a number of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip less than an hour after a barrage of projectiles were fired at Israel from the coastal enclave, according to Hebrew media reports. Continue Reading »

Of Democratic contenders, only Biden opposes cutting military aid to Israel

After Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said that Israel’s defense aid should “go right now into humanitarian aid in Gaza” and be used as leverage against Israel, former VP Biden called the idea “outrageous.”

By OMRI NAHMIAS

 

Washington – Former Vice President and Democratic presidential hopeful, Joe Biden, sharply criticized some of his fellow candidates for offering to use military aid to Israel as leverage, and called the idea “outrageous.”

After Sen. Bernie Sanders claimed the United States is “complicit” in so-called Israeli ‘occupation’ and should rethink U.S. military aid to the Jewish state, Sharia Law advocate Linda Sarsour announced her support for Sanders’ bid for presidency.

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