Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Senior Hamas Figure Assassinated by Israeli Intelligence: This Means War


The BBC’s Wyre Davies called the killing of Jaabari “a massive escalation of the situation around Gaza”. 
The killing of Hamas’s military chief, Ahmed al-Jaabari, seems to be the beginning of a new round of hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza. 
Israel said the killing of Jaabari and a passenger in his car was not the end of this operation and more attacks on Gazan militants would follow. 
Hamas said the airstrike had “opened the gates of hell”. 
In a statement the Israeli military said: “The purpose of this operation was to severely impair the command and control chain of the Hamas leadership.” 
Military spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel Avital Leibovitch said the attack was the "start of a broader operation”.

Gaza has been governed by Hamas since 2007, and conflict is certainly not new to this strip of land. What's new is the campaign by Israel to bring known terrorists to justice and unsettle the "command and control chain" of Hamas.

There are some understandably impassioned words being thrown around by Hamas. This is an escalation the world will be following carefully.

Alarmingly, a spokesperson for the Israeli Defence Force has just tweeted that today's attack may lead to a "ground offensive". -The Guardian


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