Sunday, October 11, 2015

Israeli Retaliatory Strike in Gaza Kills Woman and Child

Israeli Retaliatory Strike in Gaza Kills Woman and Child
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/12/world/middleeast/israeli-retaliatory-strike-in-gaza-kills-woman-and-child-palestinian-officials-say.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0


An Israeli retaliatory airstrike on Sunday against the Islamic militant group that dominates Gaza called the Hamas, led to the deaths of a pregnant Palestinian woman and a toddler.  These are the first Palestinian civilian casualties of an Israeli airstrike in more than a year.  The Israeli military said the strikes early on Sunday were in response to rocket fire into Israel from the Gaza Strip.  The mounting death toll in Gaza seemed to contradict the Israeli Army’s stated policy of trying to avoid civilian casualties.  A weekend of demonstrations by Arab citizens of Israel and counterdemonstrations by right-wing Israeli Jews is said to have sparked the violence.  The Palestinian Authority, Hamas and the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel also play a role in the sudden violence outburst. 

 -Tom Sora

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