Israel intensifies bombing of Gaza

Israel has intensified during Wednesday night operation Margin Protector  on Gaza. The Hebrew army has fired 322 targets – in early on Wednesday were 150 – on the Strip, killing at least three people, bringing to 74 the death toll from the bombing, according to Reuters. Israel claims that Hamas fires on targets, the Palestinian Islamist group that controls Gaza since 2007, which in turn launches missiles into Israeli territory, with a radius of increasing Territory. Egypt opened its Rafah Crossing, the only crossing of the African country with the fringe, to receive Palestinians wounded, according to the Egyptian state news agency.

“We shot 322 targets in Gaza overnight, leading to 750 the total number of Hamas targets achieved by the army since the beginning of the operation margin Protector ” stated Peter Lerner, a military spokesman, as France Presse. The objectives, according to Lerner, were placed rocket launch, tunnels and Hamas command posts, which, according to the Army, been shot last night eight missiles against Israel. “We continue our operation to put pressure on Hamas,” said the spokesman.

One target was a car traveling through the city Gaza. The impact caused the death of three occupants and injured four others, according to France Presse reported the spokesman for the emergency services of the city, Ashraf al- Qudra, who identified one of the dead as Abu Baha by Leil, 35. The Reuters news agency puts the death tolls to 74, citing medical sources in the Gaza.

The prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, has reiterated his position when he appeared before the parliamentary committee on defense and foreign affairs, as reported in the Israeli daily Haaretz. ” I’m Not talking to anyone about a ceasefire now not even is on the agenda. “

Ze’ev Elkin, chairman of the committee and a member of Netanyahu’s party, has proposed to take even harsher steps against Gaza, including cutting off water and electricity to the Gaza. Netanyahu has been reluctant: ” The legal advisers will not allow it.” Netanyahu has ordered to increase air strikes and stressed that Israel would not be allowed to take such steps, as other countries during times of war: “We can not do what the Russians did to the Chechens.”

While the proposal of military action on land still on the table, as specified military spokesman Lerner. “A ground operation is a potential option,” though not certainly “last option”. To do this, Israel has mobilized 40,000 reservists who would join the 1,500 troops already deployed on the border between Israel and Gaza.

Meanwhile, the Egyptian authorities have opened the Rafah crossing (south of Gaza) to allow passage of injured Palestinians. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said in a statement that “Al Sisi stressed that Egypt is interested in the safety of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and contain this serious assault “. Cairo “endeavor to reach an immediate cease fire,” it added. Since the coup against Mohamed Morsi in July 2013, Egypt regularly closes the passage, saying the Islamist threat in the Sinai Peninsula, although sporadically opens to allow the passage of humanitarian convoys through the only access Gaza that is not to Israeli controlled.

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