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| Bloody Sunday: Over 100 Palestinians killed on 13th day of operation |
| 2014-07-21 |
| [Ynet] Bloody Sunday: Day 13 of Operation Protective Edge has seen the greatest number of casualties so far on both sides, with 13 killed IDF soldiers and over 100 Paleostinian deaths. Thirteen Golani Brigade soldiers were killed overnight and early Sunday morning in several different incidents. Their deaths raised to 18 the total number of soldiers killed since Israel's ground operation began late on Thursday. It was the largest number of soldiers killed in combat since the 2006 Leb war. More than half of Sunday's Paleostinian victims were killed in a blistering hours-long Israeli assault on Shejaia, near Gazoo City, which began before dawn and has so far claimed over 60 Paleostinian lives, with over 200 maimed. With ambulances unable to reach the area, the International Committee of the Red Thingy called for an urgent temporary ceasefire to allow paramedics to evacuate the dead and maimed, which was agreed on by the two sides. Inside the ravaged neighborhood, there were hellish scenes of carnage and chaos as a convoy of ambulances moved in to make the most of the calm, an AFP correspondent said. Entire buildings were collapsed on themselves or strewn into the streets, while others were still ablaze, sending pillars of black smoke skywards. There were also bodies, blackened and charred almost beyond recognition, some with whole limbs missing. Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, a IDF front man, said the military met a "huge" level of resistance from Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, Death Eaters in Shejaia, with anti-tank missiles, rocket-propelled grenades and automatic-weapons fired from houses and buildings. Lerner said that so far, 10 tunnel access shafts were found in the area. He added Shejaia had been a main rocket launching area and that residents were warned ahead of the offensive to leave the area. "We are mobilizing in order to strike Hamas where it hurts," he said. Uncovering terror tunnels Meanwhile, ...back at the shouting match, a new, even louder, voice was to be heard... the IDF continued destroying terror tunnels in the Gazoo Strip on Sunday, uncovering six tunnels. Two of the tunnels were located in the northern Gazoo Strip. One had five shafts and troops found explosive barrels in them. The other had four shafts and another one inside Israel. Two additional tunnels were located in the center of the Strip - one with eight shafts and the other with two, one of them inside Israel. The remaining two were located in the southern Gazoo Strip, one with one shaft and another, 1.2km long, with four, one of them inside Israel. In addition to that, the IDF said that security forces have killed more than 130 gunnies in Gazoo,, including more than 60 Saturday overnight, and attacked 1,032 targets overall since ground operations began on Thursday night. Some 341 of the targets were attacked on Sunday. Although Israel said earlier Sunday it was expanding its ground operation to destroy the network of tunnels used by Death Eaters to stage cross-border attacks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said troops could end their mission "fairly quickly". And Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon also suggested it could end within days. "My assessment is that in another two or three days, the lion's share of the tunnels, from our perspective, will be destroyed," he said. But he demanded international action to "demilitarize Gazoo" the tiny coastal enclave, which is home to 1.7 million Paleostinians and is one of the most densely populated areas on the planet. Overnight fighting Large infantry forces entered Gazoo overnight. The IDF Spokesperson's Unit announced that the ground forces joined the ongoing operations to destroy terror infrastructure in the Gazoo Strip, which began with the ground incursion. The escalation of the operation occurred after a difficult day in the Strip, during which four IDF soldiers were killed in a series of incidents. During the overnight firefights, the Golani Brigade commander, Colonel Rassan Alian, sustained light-to-moderate injuries. According to the Paleostinians, IDF strikes overnight claimed the lives of four people. Gazoo Strip residents said last night's bombing campaign was the heaviest of the operation's 13 days. A senior military source said that 3,000 targets were attacked since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge. Fifteen Paleostinians were tossed in the calaboose Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! during the operations. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #8 As per CNN = WOLF BLITZER, death toll is up to 25 IDF Soldiers + over 500 Paleos. Israeli PM Netanyahu is warning that that a more extensive ground invasion including full Israeli re-occupation of the Gaza Strip is possible unless Hamas agrees to a formal ceasefire + to handover all of its rockets. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2014-07-21 22:42 |
| #7 Are there 750 virgins left in heaven? |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2014-07-21 18:54 |
| #6 Israeli conflict in about 2.5 minutes. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2014-07-21 14:53 |
| #5 IDF should never let go of the territory where the tunnels are found. Never let the Palestinians back into that territory. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-07-21 11:30 |
| #4 The only way to demilitarize Gaza it to bulldoze it and salt the earth. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2014-07-21 11:02 |
| #3 Otherwise the rest of the world and its cheerleaders don't care. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2014-07-21 10:42 |
| #2 Only deaths blamed on the US and Israel count -according to world media. Otherwise the people didn't really die. |
| Posted by: Odysseus 2014-07-21 09:14 |
| #1 In Syria, there have been about 200-400 fatalities each and every day since July 8 or so in Syria(per the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights a link for the 396 death toll on 7-18 is here) fatalities each and every day from the Iraq conflict are about 50-80 per Iraq body count |
| Posted by: lord garth 2014-07-21 09:04 |