Posted on 08/08/2022 4:41:58 PM PDT by Conservat1
Edited on 08/08/2022 6:31:14 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Israel says that it launched its military operation, codenamed Breaking Dawn, in response to a direct and immediate threat from PIJ militants..
Tensions .. since Israel's arrest of Bassem Saadi, said to be the top PIJ figure ..
Israeli officials.. had "precise, detailed intelligence" that the Iran-backed militant group - which has its stronghold in Gaza - was planning to attack military or civilian targets nearby with sniper or anti-tank fire.
Still, it was unusual for Israel to make a pre-emptive strike on the Palestinian territory... the risk paid off. This was one of its most successful rounds of fighting with militants there.
PIJ lost its two most senior commanders on the ground, Tayseer Jaabari and Khaled Mansour, as well as sites used to manufacture and store missiles, command headquarters and outposts... it hit 170 PIJ targets.
..official assesses that it has dealt "a very serious blow" to PIJ and "taken them back decades".
Claims by the PIJ leader, Ziad Nakhalah, who is visiting Iran, that this was "a victory" are far less convincing.
Militants did muster a show of strength, firing some 1,100 rockets (according to Israeli figures) from their ample arsenal at Israel and setting off warning sirens in Tel Aviv and even Jerusalem.
But the Iron Dome defence system prevented them from any significant military achievements and helped stop any deaths of Israelis, although dozens suffered minor injuries.
Self-inflicted casualties?
..the escalation... peak .. was .. when .. children ..killed in Jabalia ..
Israel.. could prove - with video evidence - the explosion was not caused by Israeli air strike, but by a misfired Palestinian rocket.
Palestinian witnesses do report seeing faulty PIJ launches in this conflict.
IDF ..briefed journalists ..one-fifth of the rockets PIJ fired landed, exploded inside Gaza Strip..
Israeli communities close to Gaza also live under constant fear..
(it hit 170 PIJ targets)
Whoa...
And the jihadi losers claim “victory”...
PIJ militants are: Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine
Self-inflicted casualties?
"Self-inflicted casualties?
..the escalation... peak .. was .. when .. children ..killed in Jabalia ..
Israel.. could prove - with video evidence - the explosion was not caused by Israeli air strike, but by a misfired Palestinian rocket.
D**n bunch of splitists from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement!
Like the old song line of one of Sinatra’s hits, “The Best is Yet to Come”!!!
Yup.
Bit chunk of those crude rockets end up in their own territory
They were shooting them off when I was there in latter 2019.
Reserves were called up right after we left. Then BOOM.
They are from Iran.
https://twitter.com/StandWithUs/status/1556007849385508864
Watch: The failed rocket launch which killed kids in Jabalia - Arutz Sheva
Aug 6, 2022 — IDF releases video showing Islamic Jihad rocket launch failing, rocket falling in Gaza.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/357759
Yes, the biased-anti-Israel BBC intentionally omitted the video where Palestinians kill their own.
On routinely biased BBC :
https://www.camera.org/article/outlet/bbc/
https://honestreporting.com/tag/bbc/
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