Death tolls rise in surging Israel-Gaza fighting

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

WORLD NEWS MAY 5, 2019 / 12:23 AM / UPDATED 16 MINUTES AGO

Death tolls rise in surging Israel-Gaza fighting

Nidal al-Mughrabi, Jeffrey Heller
6 MIN READ

GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Rockets and missiles from Gaza killed four civilians in Israel, while Israeli strikes killed 19 Palestinians, more than half of them civilians, in surging cross-border fighting on Sunday, according to Gazan officials and the Israeli military.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he ordered the military to continue “massive strikes” against Gaza’s ruling Hamas group and Islamic Jihad in the most serious border clashes since a spate of fighting in November.

Israel’s military said that more than 600 rockets and other projectiles - over 150 of them intercepted by its Iron Dome anti-missile system - had been fired at southern Israeli cities and villages since Friday.

It said it attacked more than 260 targets belonging to Gaza militant groups. Gaza officials said Israeli air strikes and artillery fire killed 27 people, including 14 civilians, since Friday.

A rocket that hit a house in Ashkelon on Sunday killed a 58-year-old man, police said. He was the first such Israeli civilian fatality since the seven-week Gaza war in 2014.

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[keithbvadu2]

1. Where is Super Jared to the rescue?

[Mosby]

2. Hamas wants another war.

I wonder why they don't shoot rockets into Egypt to protest that border closure.

[sabbat hunter]

3. Is there even

anything in range in Egypt worth firing rockets at? (That is if Hamas really even wanted to fire at Egypt )

[Mosby]

4. I think Rafah is on both sides

The Egyptians expanded their buffer zone a few years ago by razing something like 1000 homes. That was after a Hamas cross border attack that killed around thirty Egyptian military people.

Eta I think Hamas wants the best bang for its buck, so Israel is the primary target. Attacking Egypt is emotionally satisfying but attacking Israel gets them the media attention they crave, especially in Europe.

[VarryOn]

5. Looks like they've restocked and ready to fight for sure...

To what end? To what end?

Coming fresh off a new election Netenyahu has plenty of latitude and resolve to deal with rockets raining down on the citizens

I'm sure the UN will chime in soon with it's usually "restraint on both sides message". They probably already have a pad of pre-printed statements!