Bad Blood Between Israel and Palestine Boils Over

July 20th, 2014

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

Bad blood between Israel and Palestine has boiled over and violence imprisons the Gaza Strip, creating an intense conflict with further risk of escalation.

After 10 days of both sea and air attacks on the Gaza Strip along with failed attempts by Egypt to form a truce between the two countries, Israel launched a Gaza land offensive on Thursday, which sent ground forces into the most densely-populated area of Palestine. But with land attacks already devastating the Islamist Hamas-dominated territory, Israel warned of “significantly widening” the ground operations on Friday.

What’s been an on going conflict, since WWII, between Israel and the Hamas—the Palestinian Islamic political group—this marks the first ground invasion since the 2008-2009 war between the two. In 2007, the Hamas became the “de facto ruler” in the Gaza Strip after winning the elections and refused to recognize Israel as a country. The Hamas, a group that has been referred to as a terrorist organization, wants Palestinians to be able to return to their old home, now Israel territory, and will use violence to achieve it, according to the BBC.

The continuous clashes between Israel and Palestine recently resurfaced after three Israeli students were kidnapped in the West Bank and later found murdered. While Israel blamed the Hamas for the deaths, they sought out the operatives and started attacking Gaza from the air. A few days later, Israeli extremists in Jerusalem murdered a Palestinian boy, while another Palestinian boy was held captive by Israelis and eventually badly beaten.

The recent crisis spurred “sporadic rocket fire” launched from Gaza, but the violence quickly escalated after the beating of the Palestinian boy. The Hamas admittedly sent a wave of rockets at Israel to which Israel responded with an increase in air strikes against Gaza in what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said to be the heavy price the Hamas would have to pay.

Today, the conflict is a direct result of at least 230 Palestinian deaths and one Israeli death after more than 1,100 airstrikes were launched from the Gaza Strip where close to 1.5 million Palestinians live, according to the BBC. And things could get worse as Israel threatens to expand their land offense.

But there is an underlying reason for the current invasion of the Gaza Strip. Since the Palestinian territory borders Egypt on the southwest side, the “Hamas maintain a network of tunnels designed to smuggle in military equipment and civilian goods,” according to Vox Media. Israel blockades the east and north borders of Gaza, but Israel claimed it discovered a Hamas tunnel that passed into Israel. Therefore, the PM of Israel ordered the destruction of these tunnels to ban the Hamas from entry into Israel. But land offense is doing more than shutting down tunnels; Netanyahu said it is “to restore quiet and safety to Israelis for a long time to come, while significantly harming the infrastructure of Hamas and other terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip.”

While many countries have tried to settle the conflict between Arabs and Israelis, no resolution is in sight and the peace process is pushed further out.

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