Israel Launches Massive Air Strikes on Hamas Positions in Gaza – IDF
- Israel launches massive air raid on Gaza – IDF
by https://www.rt.com/
The Israeli military has started a broad air attack on Hamas position in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Defense Forces said in a statement. It comes after one IDF soldier was killed in serious border clashes on the Gaza border.
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Later, the IDF also confirmed that one Israeli soldier died after coming under fire on the Gaza border earlier on Friday. The soldier was “severely injured” during operational activity near the southern Gaza strip and then succumbed to his wounds, the IDF statement says.
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The statement said earlier in response to the border clashes the IDF used aircraft and tanks to attack Hamas fighters. Friday’s raid comes as a deadline given by Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman to Hamas to stop kite attacks or face consequences expired. Israel’s top security officials reportedly held a meeting, after which the country may launch a full-scale military operation similar to the one in 2014, RT’s Paula Slier reported.
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“This flare-up comes four years after the last Gaza war, which is known as Operation Protective Edge. That war lasted seven weeks and in it thousands of people killed, and the concern on the ground as tension escalates is that we may be witnessing another war unfolding in the coming hours,” she said.
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Meanwhile, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, called on “everyone in Gaza” to take a “step away” from what he called the “brink” of another war. The tensions should be eased “not next week” and “not tomorrow” but “right now!” he wrote in a Twitter post, adding that “those, who want to provoke Palestinians and Israelis into another war, must not succeed.”
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