RTFirst Israeli citizen has been killed by a rocket from Gaza since the IDF began its Operation Protective Edge on July 7. A civilian in his 30s was critically injured at the Erez crossing on the Gaza border and died later of wounds.
The first Israeli victim of the week-long conflict was a volunteer delivering supplies to Israeli soldiers deployed at the border with the Gaze Strip, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said as cited by AP.
Update: The Israeli civilian who was injured at the Erez crossing has died of his wounds.
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) July 15, 2014
Hamas group has claimed responsibility for launching the short-range rocket that struck the area along the border with Gaza, reports Reuters.
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Earlier, the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) reported that a rocket fired from Gaza struck a house in Ashkelon, is a coastal city on the Mediterranean coast. No casualties were immediately reported there.
Here you can see rockets being launched from populated areas of Gaza. Israeli city of Ashkelon is in the background. pic.twitter.com/aKd8YKEFbN
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) July 15, 2014
On Monday, a rocket attack launched by Palestinian militants wounded two Israeli girls in Lakiya, a town in the south of the country.
Maram Wakili, 10, was in critical condition in Soroka Medical Center, Be’er Sheva, according to Haaretz. Her 13-year-old sister Atir was moderately wounded.
“We heard a very faint siren,” the girls’ cousin, Omar Wakili, was quoted as saying. “The girls started running but there was no time to hide, the rocket hit our cowshed and shrapnel scattered everywhere.”
On Tuesday, Israel resumed its offensive against Gaza. That followed a six-hour truce proposed by Egypt, which was accepted by Israel and rejected by Hamas. The Israeli military said that during the supposed ceasefire 47 rockets were fired by Palestinians all over Israel with more cross-border fire following after Israel responded back.
Since 9 am, about 125 rockets were fired from Gaza at Israel. Around 100 of them hit Israel. The Iron Dome intercepted 20.
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) July 15, 2014
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will intensify its offensive after Hamas continued firing rockets instead of accepting the ceasefire.
“It would have been preferable to have solved this diplomatically, and this is what we tried to do when we accepted the Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire, but Hamas leaves us no choice but to expand and intensify the campaign against it,” Netanyahu said Tuesday in broadcast remarks.
According to Israeli military, over 1080 rockets have been launched at Israel since the outbreak of violence between the two old foes last weeks. 845 of those rockets hit the country’s territory, while almost 200 were intercepted.
While Israel has suffered its first victim, the number of fatalities among Palestinians is climbing to 200. Over 77 % of them are civilians, including 36 children, according to UN report.
Just a payback for helping the IDF. Take warning all the rest of you volunteers, this is Gods payback for helping the Devil.
“First Israeli citizen has been killed by a rocket from Gaza since the IDF began its Operation Protective Edge on July 7.”
Last count I saw, at 167 Palestinians have died so far.
Hamas is seriously in need of a missile upgrade.
“One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail,” — Rabbi Yaacov Perrin
That’s the mentality we’re dealing with here. So, the Ziopress mourns one death. Meantime, the slaughter continues.
What the whole globe is in need of is a serious government downgrade.
My Fellow Americans:
ONLY one low-life maggot israeli has died???
Pity it is only one so far.
HEY HAMAS!,… Learn how to aim those damn rockets!
JD – US Marines – Israel,… a Global-Terrorist-State,.. murdering innocent men, women and children since its very creation on May 14, 1948.
No matter what Israel does the Palestinian people will win…if these Talmudic anti-Christ Khazars couldn’t beat Hezbolla to steal the Litani River in 2006, then no way will they defeat the Palestinians…after all they cannot nuke Gaza since the radiation would also destroy themselves and their “Jewish fingernails”….
There’s never going to be peace because the Israelis don’t want peace; they want all the land for themselves. Give the Palestinians a few hundred thousand AK’s and rpg’s and watch what brave people can do with them.
The Chosenites would freak, that’s for sure. They do not know how to fight an enemy that can fight back. Artillery, drones, and bombs keep them warm and safe.
That would be the SO-CALLED ‘chosenites’ Eddie.
Self-proclaimed.
Naturally, a jew would NEVER lie.