Gaza rocket sends Netanyahu to shelter during campaign rally - TV

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Gaza rocket sends Netanyahu to shelter during campaign rally - TV

 

FILE PHOTO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office December 15, 2019. Gali Tibbon/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

 

ASHKELON, Israel (Reuters) - A rocket launched from the Gaza Strip at a southern Israeli city on Wednesday as it hosted a campaign rally by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prompted him to take shelter briefly before resuming the event, Israeli TV stations reported.

 

The Israeli military confirmed the launch against Ashkelon, which is 12 km (7.5 miles) from the coastal Palestinian enclave, and said the rocket was shot down by an Iron Dome air defence interceptor.

 

There was no immediate claim of responsibility in Gaza, which is under the control of Hamas Islamists and where a smaller armed faction, Islamic Jihad, exchanged fire with Israel during a two-day surge of violence last month.

 

Israeli TV stations showed Netanyahu, who is campaigning to keep the helm of the conservative Likud party in an internal election on Thursday, being escorted off a stage by bodyguards. The reports said he was taken to a shelter after sirens sounded.

 

It was the second such incident after a September appearance by Netanyahu in the nearby town of Ashdod was briefly disrupted by a rocket siren.

Israel sparked the November fighting in Gaza by assassinating Baha Abu Al-Atta, an Islamic Jihad commander it accused of ordering the launch against Ashdod.

 

"He (Al-Atta) is no longer around," a video circulated on social media showed a smiling Netanyahu saying after he retook the stage in Ashkelon, to cheers from onlookers.

 

In a veiled threat to retaliate for Wednesday's attack, he added: "Whoever tried to make an impression just now should pack his bags."

 

While Netanyahu is widely expected to retain Likud's leadership, he faces a tough battle ahead of a March general election in Israel - its third in a year, after he and his centrist rival Benny Gantz failed to secure majorities in two previous ballots. Netanyahu's standing has been dented by an indictment on corruption charges that he denies.

 

Netanyahu's failure to stem attacks from Gaza has been invoked by his political rivals.

 

"The situation in which Israeli citizens live at the mercy of terrorists and the prime minister of Israel is unable to tour parts of his country is a badge of shame on the security policy in the south - and a loss of deterrence that no sovereign country can accept," Gantz, a former military chief, said in a statement on Wednesday.

 

(Writing by Dan Williams; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne and Dan Grebler)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2019-12-26

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[ezzra]

So now israel is going to retaliate by sending it's gunships and airplanes to bomb Gaza if it hasn't done that already, tit for tat over and over again, a war that can never ever be won by the Palestinians only to add to their self inflicted misery and poverty to their millions of them who just wishes to live in peace...

[Jack Mountain]

He has nothing to fear, it's always the innocence who got hit ...

[Bluespunk]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

A rocket launched from the Gaza Strip at a southern Israeli city on Wednesday as it hosted a campaign rally by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prompted him to take shelter briefly before resuming the event, Israeli TV stations reported.

Hmm, good publicity for this man and his agenda...

[ivor bigun]

Strange how rockets and guns can get into Gaza ,but not medicines and food , They should get that Hamas terrorist lover Corbyn to go and sort it out .

[mogandave]

4 hours ago, ezzra said:

So now israel is going to retaliate by sending it's gunships and airplanes to bomb Gaza if it hasn't done that already, tit for tat over and over again, a war that can never ever be won by the Palestinians only to add to their self inflicted misery and poverty to their millions of them who just wishes to live in peace...

It does make one wonder why they keep shooting rockets at the Jews.  
 

How much do they spend on those things anyway? Seems it would go a long way to reduce their misery. 
 

“Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us” 

 

“When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sins, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us for to kill their sons.”

 

 

[sammieuk1]

Nothing to do with Mr Kims late xmas present then???? 

[Sujo]

8 hours ago, ezzra said:

So now israel is going to retaliate by sending it's gunships and airplanes to bomb Gaza if it hasn't done that already, tit for tat over and over again, a war that can never ever be won by the Palestinians only to add to their self inflicted misery and poverty to their millions of them who just wishes to live in peace...

How many died from the rocket. Tit for tat would be the same amount.

[Pedrogaz]

5 hours ago, Jack Mountain said:

He has nothing to fear, it's always the innocence who got hit ...

Yeah, shame about that isn't it?

[puipuitom]

10 hours ago, ezzra said:

So now israel is going to retaliate by sending it's gunships and airplanes to bomb Gaza if it hasn't done that already, tit for tat over and over again, a war that can never ever be won by the Palestinians only to add to their self inflicted misery and poverty to their millions of them who just wishes to live in peace...

But.. as Gaza is a NON-democracy, with only Hamas who has anything to say, there will never be peace.

I remember myself as young student in 1971 as well as businessman, travelling through the entire region, inclusive Golan, West-Bank and Gaza, the border was the same as between the Kingdom of Lanna and the Kingdom of Sukhutai, or... between Netherlands and Belgium: visible maybe at some tourist sites of restaurants...  Tens of thousands had a job OR in Israel or in Israeli of "Western" factories in their own areas. Now.. none, and their places are taken by Philippinos, Vietnamese and a 10.000 or so Thai.

In the 1947049 a 400.000 Palestinians followed the call of their leaders to leave Palestine, so the Arab armies could shoot everyone they saw. Pity, the Israeli’s fought better. These Palestinian Arabs ended in fugitive camps, together with a 300.000 other poor Arabs, and got from the UNWRA a $ 1,3 BILLION a year. We got as thinks… ask yourself at the security check at every airport. The about 700.000 Jews, who had to leave the Arab nations, leaving behind everything they had, got nothing.

[puipuitom]

2 hours ago, Sujo said:

How many died from the rocket. Tit for tat would be the same amount.

So, when a terrorist attacks you, but no casualties, only a lot of fear, that is the only thing you will do back ?

To gove an idea about the rocket attacts from Gaza into Israel, for 2019:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel_in_2019

[mogandave]

3 hours ago, Sujo said:

How many died from the rocket. Tit for tat would be the same amount.

No, tit for tat would be killing as many of them, as they were trying to kill of yours. 
 

 

[sanemax]

3 minutes ago, mogandave said:

No, tit for tat would be killing as many of them, as they were trying to kill of yours. 
 

 

No, Israel does not target civilians , Israel tries to stop the rocket attacks by targeting the source  

[dexterm]

2 hours ago, puipuitom said:

But.. as Gaza is a NON-democracy, with only Hamas who has anything to say, there will never be peace.

 

I remember myself as young student in 1971 as well as businessman, travelling through the entire region, inclusive Golan, West-Bank and Gaza, the border was the same as between the Kingdom of Lanna and the Kingdom of Sukhutai, or... between Netherlands and Belgium: visible maybe at some tourist sites of restaurants...  Tens of thousands had a job OR in Israel or in Israeli of "Western" factories in their own areas. Now.. none, and their places are taken by Philippinos, Vietnamese and a 10.000 or so Thai.

 

In the 1947049 a 400.000 Palestinians followed the call of their leaders to leave Palestine, so the Arab armies could shoot everyone they saw. Pity, the Israeli’s fought better. These Palestinian Arabs ended in fugitive camps, together with a 300.000 other poor Arabs, and got from the UNWRA a $ 1,3 BILLION a year. We got as thinks… ask yourself at the security check at every airport. The about 700.000 Jews, who had to leave the Arab nations, leaving behind everything they had, got nothing.

 

You may very well choose to believe the propaganda tropes straight out of the Zionist apologist play book where Israel can never do any wrong.
However you think 750,000 Palestinians got ethnically cleansed, it is a war crime today not to allow refugees to return to their homes.
Presumably you also believe Palestinians are begging the IDF to demolish their homes in the West Bank to make way for Zionist immigrants straight off the plane at Ben Gurion airport who have never set eyes on the land before.
https://www.972mag.com/demolitions-decade-annexation/

Try Google images: Palestinians ethnically cleansed    where you will find dozens of photos of Jewish terrorist gangs assisting Palestinians to voluntarily flee at the barrel of a gun.

 

Interestingly 70% of the population of Gaza are refugee families that once lived in Ashkelon and neighboring villages where the OP Netanyahu was speaking, before they were ethnically cleansed by European colonizers that is.

[mogandave]

6 minutes ago, dexterm said:

You may very well choose to believe the propaganda tropes straight out of the Zionist apologist play book where Israel can never do any wrong.
However you think 750,000 Palestinians got ethnically cleansed, it is a war crime today not to allow refugees to return to their homes.
Presumably you also believe Palestinians are begging the IDF to demolish their homes in the West Bank to make way for Zionist immigrants straight off the plane at Ben Gurion airport who have never set eyes on the land before.
https://www.972mag.com/demolitions-decade-annexation/

Try Google images: Palestinians ethnically cleansed    where you will find dozens of photos of Jewish terrorist gangs assisting Palestinians to voluntarily flee at the barrel of a gun.

 

Interestingly 70% of the population of Gaza are refugee families that once lived in Ashkelon and neighboring villages where the OP Netanyahu was speaking, before they were ethnically cleansed that is by European colonizers that is.

So why do they keep shooting the rockets? 
 

Why do they keep killing Jews rather than trying to negotiate a peaceful two-state solution? 

[dexterm]

23 minutes ago, mogandave said:

So why do they keep shooting the rockets? 
 

Why do they keep killing Jews rather than trying to negotiate a peaceful two-state solution? 

Why did Israel provoke retaliation by OP.."Israel sparked the November fighting in Gaza by assassinating Baha Abu Al-Atta, an Islamic Jihad commander" 
Why has Israel killed almost 3 Palestinians per week so far this year?
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/israel-has-killed-nearly-3-palestinians-week-year-0

 

There is no two state solution. Israel has made sure of that by expanding settlements with Trump cheer leading them on. Now threatening to annex more land, which I think is no bad thing ultimately.

The Zionists are shooting themselves in the foot. What is Israel to do with 3 million Palestinians it inherits within the land it annexes? The struggle will soon turn to one man one vote in a single state solution.

 

btw I believe it is equally a war crime to fire rockets indiscriminately into Israel that could kill innocent people as it is for the IDF with their precision weapons to bomb apartment blocks knowing civilians will be killed, or target Palestinian boys playing football on a beach, or shoot clearly identifiable medics, journalists and paraplegics by the Gaza fence.

[sanemax]

5 minutes ago, dexterm said:

btw I believe it is equally a war crime to fire rockets indiscriminately into Israel that could kill innocent people as it is for the IDF with their precision weapons to bomb apartment blocks knowing civilians will be killed, or target Palestinian boys playing football on a beach, or shoot clearly identifiable medics, journalists and paraplegics by the Gaza fence.

No, if Palestinians fire rockets from apartments and hospitals , Israel can fire back at those targets .

   If the Palestinians put civilians in the vicinity of their rockets being fired, there will likely be civilian casualties .

   Is it a war crime for the Palestinians to use children as a human shield ?

[dexterm]

9 minutes ago, sanemax said:

No, if Palestinians fire rockets from apartments and hospitals , Israel can fire back at those targets .

   If the Palestinians put civilians in the vicinity of their rockets being fired, there will likely be civilian casualties .

   Is it a war crime for the Palestinians to use children as a human shield ?

More mythology from the Zionist apologists playbook. The IDF can never do any wrong. The narrative is always so perfect. There's always an excuse for Palestinians hurling themselves in front of Israeli bullets and missiles.

 

There is nowhere for civilians to hide safely in Gaza less than 4 miles wide in places and about the same size and population of Philadelphia. But that doesn't prevent the IDF regularly "mowing the lawn" as they sickly call it.

[sanemax]

Just now, dexterm said:

More mythology from the Zionist apologists playbook. The IDF can never do any wrong. The narrative is always so perfect. There's always an excuse for Palestinians hurling themselves in front of Israeli bullets and missiles.

 

There is nowhere for civilians to hide safely in Gaza less than 4 miles wide in places and about the same size and population of Philadelphia. But that doesn't prevent the IDF regularly "mowing the lawn" as they sickly call it.

Eh, I did not state that the IDF can do no wrong and I am not excusing any things that they do wrong '

   It has been clearly shown that the Palestinians deliberately fire rockets from schools and hospitals and they put Children in the vicinity, knowing full well that Israel will fire back, there will be children/civilian casualties and theta will make a got photo shoot and good publicity for their cause .

   This is done deliberately as there are fields that they could fire their rockets from. but they choose to use apartments and hospitals to fire from 

[lungbing]

So the IDF claims, which gives them the thin excuse to kill civilians.

[dexterm]

3 minutes ago, sanemax said:

Eh, I did not state that the IDF can do no wrong and I am not excusing any things that they do wrong '

   It has been clearly shown that the Palestinians deliberately fire rockets from schools and hospitals and they put Children in the vicinity, knowing full well that Israel will fire back, there will be children/civilian casualties and theta will make a got photo shoot and good publicity for their cause .

   This is done deliberately as there are fields that they could fire their rockets from. but they choose to use apartments and hospitals to fire from 

Easy way to prove or disprove your baloney...independent UN or ICC investigation et al, but Israel of course won't allow investigators to interview their soldiers. The truth will out when some ex IDF with a conscience speak out via groups such as Breaking The Silence, until Netanyahu tries to stifle them.

Methinks the only so called democracy in the Middle east has something to hide.

[Scott]

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[Orton Rd]

On 12/26/2019 at 6:46 PM, mogandave said:

So why do they keep shooting the rockets? 
 

Why do they keep killing Jews rather than trying to negotiate a peaceful two-state solution? 

They could have had a 2 state solution in the 30's getting 80% of the land and the Jews a mere 20%, they rejected it the Jews accepted. Then after ww2 the UN said 50 50, Palestinians rejected that again and twice since. They are NOT interested in a 2 state solution just one state- THEIRS.