Geopolitics Alert – by Julia “Samar” Kassem
Gaza (GPA) – The Israeli Air Force launched aircraft at a group of Palestinians launching incendiary balloons a group Sunday evening, challenging the commitment to a ceasefire agreed upon between ‘Israel’ and Hamas earlier this weekend.
A ceasefire between the resistance group and the occupying entity was brokered Saturday following this weekend’s heavy shelling by Israel during the 16th week of the ongoing Great Return March protests.
The occupying state also said it would open its blockade zone and expand the original fishing zone if the ceasefire was respected.
Four Palestinians were killed Friday and 120 injured following a series of attacks by the Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) near the Gaza strip border. Among those killed were Mahmoud Khalil Qishta, 23, killed in Rafah; as well as Mohammed Riyad Farahza, 31, and Shahban Rihab Abu Khater, 26, both killed in Khan Younis.
The three were fighters with the Al-Qassam Brigades, a military wing of Hamas. A fourth Palestinian, Muhammad Badwan, 24, was shot in the chest as he was participating in protests on that same day in east Gaza City.
The attacks came following the death of an IOF soldier by a Palestinian sniper, with Israel responding via another deadly wave of aerial bombings. The IOF also bombed east of Rafah city Thursday, killing Abdul-Karim Radwan, 38, and injuring three others from shrapnel.
The aerial bombings came as Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman reiterated his commitment in a statement Friday to launch a “wide-scale and painful military operation,” blaming Hamas for instigating via incendiary balloons and kites against Israel.
“Israeli killing and aggression will increase their costs,” Hamas spokesperson Fawzi Barhoum. “And [the state] must bear the consequences.”
He emphasized the commitment of groups fighting Israel’s “targeting and escalation” is “governed by the right to defend its people.”
Attacks against Palestinian demonstrators also affected the West Bank. At least three more Palestinians were injured that same day in a violent crackdown by IOF forces against weekly Great Return March demonstrations against settlements in the village of Kafr Qaddum, 17 kilometers east of Qalqilya.
More recently, following the ceasefire, the IOF participated in a night raid on a Palestinian home in the Dheisheh refugee camp. In response to resistance and retaliation from civilians, IOF shot and killed 15-year-old Arkan Mezhe in the chest, according to the health ministry.
Last weekend, IOF snipers killed two Palestinian teens. On July 14, 15-year-old Othman Rami Halas died in east Gaza City, and 18-year-old Muhammad Nasser Sharab of Khan Younis was killed in Khan Younis demonstrating in support of the Khan Al-Ahmar village residents, in the occupied West Bank, who are currently resisting demolition.
Luay Khaleel, 16 and Amir al-Nimra,15, were also killed the following day in an air raid as they played on the rooftop of a building.
Israel is continuing the blockade of Gaza’s main commercial paths from humanitarian assistance and also by limiting the Palestinian coastal enclave’s fishing zone on July 9.
Israel’s intensification of its air strike campaign, it’s third since 2008 and heaviest since 2014, follows a steady increase in military aid from the United States and ongoing enactment of a State Department 10-year Memorandum of Understanding signed September 2016 that gives $38 billion in military aid and missile defense to Israel.
US supplied F-35 jets are also used in attacks against Syria. Along with Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia buy the planes from the United States in their wars waged against Yemen as well as Palestine and Syria.
In the last 24 hours alone, the IOF waged airstrikes against 60 locations in Gaza.
Devil on the loose. Blood sacrifice. Hamas playing its part. Innocence sacrificed.
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Jets bombs.. verses balloons.
Kind of gives you a respect for low tech.
Well the Japanese where able to send balloons with biological chemical weapons in WWII with balloons.
Emperor Hirohito was a Marine Biologist and Scientist.
Unlike our current meat puppet.
But propaganda says they were fire bombs etc…
Thatz why they had to nuke Japan.
Because these Morons where already defeated.
I hate to tell you this as revelation…
But Japan won WWII…
Although they supposedly lost at Midway…
They maintained the Aleutian islands and the the 7000 islands in the empire.
Do your research.
We got our azzez kicked.
Because these people were willing to dive bomb and kill without remorse or question.
Unlike these pussies running around today.
How can you win a war without that…?
Yeah… them fkng gooks are CR8Z.
And that’s my tin foil hat perspective.
Kites and balloons? Isn’t there a rich guy somewhere who can smuggle some real weaponry to the Palestinians?
They have to start assassinating some of them, which I think they would be doing if they were really trying to fight. (I don’t believe the kite & balloon nonsense)
“Isn’t there a rich guy somewhere who can smuggle some real weaponry to the Palestinians?”
Yup. Plenty! But they’re all ashke-nazi kikes.