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Gaza Violence: Pictures Show Scale Of Destruction Amid Threat Of Israeli Invasion

No one is hap­pi­er in Israel for these hos­til­i­ties than the indict­ed felon Benjamin Netanyahu who runs the apartheid state of Israel. If there is any ques­tion among rea­son­able peo­ple that this indict­ed crim­i­nal has a hand in cre­at­ing these hos­til­i­ties maybe you have lost your sense of reason.
The entire lead­er­ship of Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel has been one of total dom­i­na­tion & sub­ju­ga­tion of the Palestinian people.
Now that he is an indict­ed felon, is there any won­der that he would want a full-scale war against the large­ly defense­less Palestinians in order to main­tain his hold on power?

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Andy Wells
Andy Wells·Freelance Writer
Thu, May 13, 2021, 9:24 AM

Israel amass­es troops along Gaza as con­flict esca­lates. Israel has massed troops at the Gaza bor­der as ten­sions and vio­lent clash­es with Palestine con­tin­ue to esca­late. Unrest in recent days has seen rock­ets fired from Gaza while Israeli forces have bom­bard­ed the ter­ri­to­ry with airstrikes, in the most seri­ous fight­ing since the 50-day war in 2014. Hamas and oth­er mil­i­tant groups in Gaza, claim­ing to be defend­ing Jerusalem, have fired hun­dreds of rock­ets at Tel Aviv and oth­er cities. Israel’s response has tar­get­ed police and secu­ri­ty instal­la­tions, although the Palestinian author­i­ties said there have been civil­ian casu­al­ties. Pictures released in the past 48 hours high­light the lev­el of destruc­tion wrought by the esca­la­tion of hos­til­i­ties in the region.

Palestinians gath­er around the ruins of build­ings that were destroyed in Israeli airstrikes amid a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian vio­lence, in the north­ern Gaza Strip. (Reuters)

Israel has pre­pared com­bat troops along the Gaza bor­der and was in var­i­ous stages of prepar­ing ground oper­a­tions”, a mil­i­tary spokesman said, a move that would recall sim­i­lar incur­sions dur­ing Israel-Gaza wars in 2014 and 2008 – 2009.
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime min­is­ter, has vowed to con­tin­ue act­ing to strike at the mil­i­tary capa­bil­i­ties of Hamas – which is regard­ed as a ter­ror­ist group by the UK, US, and Israel – and oth­er Gaza groups.
As many as 10 senior Hamas mil­i­tary fig­ures were killed on Wednesday as Israel pressed ahead with a fierce mil­i­tary offen­sive. The death toll in Gaza rose to 69 Palestinians, includ­ing 16 chil­dren and six women, accord­ing to the health min­istry. A total of sev­en peo­ple have been killed in Israel, includ­ing four on Wednesday. Health author­i­ties in Gaza said they were inves­ti­gat­ing the deaths of sev­er­al peo­ple overnight who they said may have inhaled poi­so­nous gas. Samples were being exam­ined and they had yet to draw any final con­clu­sions, they said. With con­cern grow­ing that the vio­lence that flared on Monday could spi­ral out of con­trol, the US is send­ing an envoy, Hady Amr, to the region.

A combination picture shows a tower building before and after it was destroyed by Israeli air strikes amid a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence, in Gaza City. (Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)
A com­bi­na­tion pic­ture shows a tow­er build­ing before and after it was destroyed by Israeli air strikes amid a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian vio­lence, in Gaza City. (Reuters)

A man stands atop rub­ble as he sur­veys the dam­age after a rock­et launched overnight from the Gaza Strip hit a res­i­den­tial build­ing in Petah Tikva, Israel. (Reuters)

US pres­i­dent Joe Biden said he hoped fight­ing “will be clos­ing down soon­er than lat­er”, while UK min­is­ter for Middle East and North Africa James Cleverly said on Thursday morn­ing that Israel has a “legit­i­mate right to defend itself but must do so pro­por­tion­ate­ly”. Cleverly said Hamas has been fir­ing rock­ets “indis­crim­i­nate­ly” into civil­ian areas, which he called “com­plete­ly unac­cept­able”. Boris Johnson has also called for restraint on both sides as he urged lead­ers to “step back from the brink”, adding that the UK is alarmed at the mount­ing toll of civil­ian casualties.

Streaks of light are seen as Israel’s Iron Dome anti-mis­sile sys­tem inter­cept rock­ets launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel. (Reuters)
A pic­ture tak­en with a drone shows the ruins of build­ings which were destroyed in Israeli air strikes amid a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian vio­lence, in the north­ern Gaza Strip. (Reuters)
Palestinians search their belong­ings as res­cue efforts con­tin­ue to evac­u­ate Palestinians from the rub­ble of the build­ings destroyed by ongo­ing Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. (Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Israeli sol­diers pay homage to their late fel­low solid­er Omer Tabib, 21, dur­ing his funer­al in Elyakim in north­ern Israel. (AFP via Getty Images)

Streaks of light are seen as Israel’s Iron Dome anti-mis­sile sys­tem inter­cept rock­ets launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel. (Reuters)

A picture taken with a drone shows the ruins of buildings which were destroyed in Israeli air strikes amid a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence, in the northern Gaza Strip. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem)

A pic­ture tak­en with a drone shows the ruins of build­ings which were destroyed in Israeli air strikes amid a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian vio­lence, in the north­ern Gaza Strip. (Reuters)

GAZA CITY, GAZA - MAY13: Palestinians search their belongings as rescue efforts continue to evacuate Palestinians from the rubble of the buildings destroyed by ongoing Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, at Al Bureij refugee cam in Gaza City, Gaza on May 13, 2021. Palestinians in Gaza Strip observe Eid al-Fitr that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan, under Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. (Photo by Hassan Jedi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Palestinians search their belong­ings as res­cue efforts con­tin­ue to evac­u­ate Palestinians from the rub­ble of the build­ings destroyed by ongo­ing Israeli airstrikes on Gaza. (Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Israeli soldiers pay homage to their late fellow solider Omer Tabib, 21, during his funeral in Elyakim in northern Israel, on May 13, 2021. - Tabib was killed when Palestinian militants in Gaza fired an anti-tank missile near the border, the army said, amid tit-for-tat rocket fire and air strikes. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Israeli sol­diers pay homage to their late fel­low solid­er Omer Tabib, 21, dur­ing his funer­al in Elyakim in north­ern Israel. (AFP via Getty Images)

Israeli pres­i­dent Reuven Rivlin called for an end to “this mad­ness”. He said: “We are endan­gered by rock­ets that are being launched at our cit­i­zens and streets, and we are busy­ing our­selves with a sense­less civ­il war among our­selves. Israel’s domes­tic unrest has been wel­comed by Hamas – with one spokes­men urg­ing Arab cit­i­zens to “rise up” against “our ene­my and yours”.

A Palestinian boy walks past the remains of a tower building which was destroyed in Israeli air strikes, in Gaza City. (Reuters/Suhaib Salem)
A Palestinian boy walks past the remains of a tow­er build­ing which was destroyed in Israeli air strikes, in Gaza City. (Reuters)

A picture taken with a drone shows the ruins of buildings which were destroyed in Israeli air strikes amid a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian violence, in the northern Gaza Strip. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem)

A pic­ture tak­en with a drone shows the ruins of build­ings which were destroyed in Israeli air strikes amid a flare-up of Israeli-Palestinian vio­lence, in the north­ern Gaza Strip. (Reuters)

TOPSHOT - Smoke billows from an Israeli air strike on the Hanadi compound in Gaza City, controlled by the Palestinian Hamas movement, on May 11, 2021. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP) (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

Smoke bil­lows from an Israeli air strike on the Hanadi com­pound in Gaza City. (AFP via Getty Images)

Ayman Odeh, a senior Israeli Arab law­mak­er, accused Netanyahu’s con­ser­v­a­tive gov­ern­ment of inflam­ing eth­nic ten­sions. The lat­est upsurge in vio­lence has been trig­gered by ten­sions in Jerusalem dur­ing the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, with clash­es at a holy site sacred to both Jews and Muslims. Preparations for Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim hol­i­day mark­ing the end of a month of day-long fast­ing, have been som­bre in Gaza, as res­i­dents brace them­selves for fur­ther dev­as­ta­tion and unrest.(Adapted from yahoo​.com)