Posted on 07/17/2014 3:20:26 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Hamas threatened Israel on Thursday evening and warned that it will pay a "high price" for launching a ground assault on Gaza.
"The start of the Israeli ground attack on Gaza is a dangerous step, the consequences of which have not been calculated," Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said in a statement quoted by AFP.
"Israel will pay a high price and Hamas is ready for the confrontation," he declared.
"With this action the Israeli government seeks to restore the morale of its soldiers and the morale of its army leadership - a leadership that is collapsing because of the qualitative blows of the resistance,” Barhoum claimed.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said earlier Thursday that the ground assault on Gaza was meant to hit the terrorist tunnels leading from Gaza into Israeli territory, and noted that the operation was a direct result of Hamas’s refusal to accept Egypt’s proposal for a ceasefire.
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Ham-ass better watch out. The Islamists haven’t been able to beat Israel yet.
They’ll huff and puff until the IDF kills them all off. Then what are they going to do?
What are they going to do? Bleed on the IDF? No, they will just hide behind women and children like they always do.
Oh, dear, a Hamas threat!
What if those terrorists start firing hundreds of rockets and mortars a day into Israel? What if those terrorists start kidnapping and murdering innocent civilians? What if those terrorists start blowing up school buses, sandwich shops, and markets? Israel should have thought this through before they risked making Hamas mad.
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