{"id":60530,"date":"2018-04-01T17:05:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T15:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=60530"},"modified":"2018-04-01T04:58:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T02:58:27","slug":"07-05-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=60530","title":{"rendered":"IDF WARNS OF LARGER MILITARY RESPONSE TO GAZA PROTEST"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/jpost.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"&quot;30%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Israel-News\/IDF-warns-of-larger-military-response-to-Gaza-protest-547595\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IDF WARNS OF LARGER MILITARY RESPONSE TO GAZA PROTEST<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong> TOVAH LAZAROFF, REUTERS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px; height: 15px;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Israeli military spokesman Brigadier-General Ronen Manelis said Hamas, which controls Gaza, was using the protests as a guise to launch attacks against Israel.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/images.jpost.com\/image\/upload\/f_auto,fl_lossy\/t_Article2016_ControlFaceDetect\/417393\" width=\"100%\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>A Palestinian shouts during clashes along the Israel border with Gaza ahead of a protest in the southern Gaza Strip March 29, 2018.. (photo credit: REUTERS\/IBRAHEEM ABU MUSTAFA)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The IDF warned that it could widen its military response to the protest that Palestinians launched Friday against the Gaza border fence, that left 16 Palestinians dead and upwards of 1,400 wounded on the first day of what is billed as a sixweek event. ID F Spokesman Brig.-Gen. Ronen Manelis said Hamas, which controls Gaza, was using the protests as a guise to launch attacks against Israel and ignite the area. He said violence would likely continue along the border until May 15.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cWe won\u2019t let this turn into a ping-pong zone where they perpetrate a terrorist act and we respond with pinpoint action. If this continues we will have no choice but to respond inside the Gaza Strip,\u201d Manelis told reporters in a phone briefing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declared Saturday a national day of mourning and a general strike was called across the West Bank. Thousands in Gaza marched through the streets at funerals for those killed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Hamas\u2019s armed wing, the Izzadin Kassam Brigades, announced that five of the Palestinians, killed were Kassam members, while the IDF said that at least 10 of those killed were affiliated with terrorist organizations<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;  js.src = 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/sv_SE\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.12';  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-video\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/idfonline\/videos\/1825958007427061\/\" data-width=\"714\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/idfonline\/videos\/1825958007427061\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/idfonline\/videos\/1825958007427061\/\">Riot in Gaza on 3.30.2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hamas has everything to gain and Palestinian civilians have everything to lose in riots like the one that happened yesterday<\/p>\n<p>Publicerat av <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/idfonline\/\">Israel Defense Forces<\/a> den 31 mars 2018<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Riot in Gaza on 3.30.2018 (IDF Spokesperson&#8217;s Office)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The protest continued on Saturday, but on a much smaller scale. According to the Hamas-run Health Ministry, some 49 people were injured.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">On Friday, over 30,000 Palestinians gathered along the 65-km. Gaza border fence. Tents were erected for a planned six-week protest pressing for the \u201cright of return\u201d for refugees and their descendants to what is now Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Families brought their children to the encampments just a few hundred meters from the fence. The protest, organized by Hamas and other Palestinian factions, is scheduled to culminate on May 15, the day Palestinians commemorate what they call the Nakba or \u201cCatastrophe\u201d when hundreds of thousands fled or were driven out of their homes in 1948 when the State of Israel was created.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In Gaza, the protest was dubbed \u201cThe March of Return\u201d and some of the tents bore names of the refugees\u2019 original villages, written in Arabic and Hebrew alike.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Abbas\u2019s spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudaineh, said: \u201cThe message of the Palestinian people is clear. The Palestinian land will always belong to its legitimate owners and the occupation will be removed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In a statement, the IDF accused Hamas of \u201ccynically exploiting women and children [by] sending them to the security fence and endangering their lives\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The military said that more than 100 army sharpshooters were deployed in the area to prevent any protesters from infiltrating into Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The IDF said its troops had used live fire only against people trying to sabotage the security fence, some of them rolling burning tires and throwing rocks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">It provided the media with videos that showed violence and attempted infiltration. It added that two of the Palestinians who tried to break through the fence also fired on IDF soldiers who responded with tank fire. According to Gazan health officials, the two Palestinians were killed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The health officials also said Israeli forces mostly used gunfire against the protesters, as well as to tear gas and rubber bullets. Witnesses said the military had deployed a drone over at least one location to drop tear gas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The officials said one of the dead was aged 16 and at least 400 people were wounded by live gunfire, while others were struck by rubber bullets or treated for tear gas inhalation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The protest presented a rare show of unity among rival Palestinian factions in the impoverished Gaza Strip, where pressure has been building on Hamas and Abbas\u2019s Fatah movement to end a decade-old rift. Reconciliation efforts to end the feud have been faltering for months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The demonstration was launched on Land Day, an annual commemoration of the deaths of six Arab citizens of Israel killed by security forces during demonstrations over government land confiscations in the Galilee in 1976.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Clashes erupted between Palestinian protesters and Israeli forces on Friday across the West Bank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Israeli forces dispersed Palestinians with dispersal means in the Jericho, Bethlehem, El-Bireh and near Nablus.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px; height: 15px;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><em>Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion&#8217;68,<\/em><em><br \/>\nani te\u017c webmastera Blogu Reunion&#8217;68, chyba ze jest to wyra\u017anie zaznaczone.<br \/>\nTwoje uwagi, linki, w\u0142asne artyku\u0142y lub wiadomo\u015bci prze\u015blij na adres:<br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><em><a style=\"color: #000080;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 710px;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IDF WARNS OF LARGER MILITARY RESPONSE TO GAZA PROTEST TOVAH LAZAROFF, REUTERS Israeli military spokesman Brigadier-General Ronen Manelis said Hamas, which controls Gaza, was using the protests as a guise to launch attacks against Israel. 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