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2019-08-27 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel Hits Gaza, Reduces Fuel Flow in Punitive Measure
[AAWSAT] Israeli aircraft carried out multiple strikes on the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip's ruling Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", movement early Monday in response to earlier rocket fire from the improvised enclave into Israel, the army said in a statement.

Israeli authorities also announced a punitive reduction in the flow of fuel to the territory's main power station, meaning a deep cut in the already rationed electricity supply.

Three rockets were fired from Gaza into southern Israel on Sunday night, the Israeli army said.

"Three launches were identified from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory," it said in a statement. "Two of them were intercepted by the Iron Dome aerial defense system."

"In response, a short while ago, (Israeli air force) fighter jets struck a number of terror targets in a Hamas military compound in the northern Gaza Strip, including the office of a Hamas battalion commander," a statement Monday morning added.

A Paleostinian security source said there were no casualties.

Sunday’s fire from Gaza comes after Israel staged Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in Syria a day earlier against what it said were Iranian drones being readied to attack Israel. Two Israeli drones also crashed in Beirut’s southern suburbs.

A separate statement from Israeli defense ministry unit COGAT said the latest fuel cut to Gaza was personally ordered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is also defense minister.

"Netanyahu ordered to downsize the transfer of fuel through the Kerem Shalom (border) crossing to the power station in Gaza by half, effective this morning and until further notice," it said in English.

Posted by Fred 2019-08-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ]  Top
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