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BY HARUMENDHAH HELMY
ANCHOR ANTHONY MARTINEZ
 

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At least 14 are dead, as Israeli forces conduct a second night of air raids over the Gaza Strip.
The raids are reportedly in retaliation for Thursday’s border attacks, which killed 8 Israelis, injured 40 others -- and was blamed on Gaza militants.
 

Here’s Al Jazeera, explaining the target of the raids.
 

“The target, according to Israelis, were senior members of the Popular Resistance Committees, not controlled by Hamas, the resistance committee operates on its own. Six killed by Israel in a single strike.”

 

And reports say-- Gaza militants are now firing rockets back into Israel, injuring at least three. A correspondent in Jerusalem tells France 24 -- the situation could easily get even worse.
 

“At the moment we’ve heard increasing rhetoric, both from the Israeli prime minister when he was visiting the injured from yesterday’s [Thursday’s] attack in hospitals in southern Israel. He says ‘this is only the beginning.’ And we’ve heard from Hamas, too, because they have not been firing the rockets back into Israel. The rockets into Israel have been fired by other militant groups. But Hamas has said it will no longer sit on the fence if Israel doesn’t stop these airstrikes.”

 

A writer for TIME explains why recent events might affect Palestinian plans for September’s U.N. General Assembly session.


“And a new crisis in Gaza hardly suits the agenda of President Abbas and the Palestinian Authority: They plan next month to seek U.N. recognition of Palestinian statehood on the 1967 lines, and it hardly helps their case to have the fact that they have no control over events in Gaza -- a substantial part of the state they are claiming -- so graphically demonstrated.”

 

Adding to the tension-- Egypt has withdrawn its ambassador from Tel Aviv for the first time in 10 years. This, after an Israeli cross-border raid accidentally killed five Egyptian policemen. Here’s euronews.
 

“It is thought the policemen were shot by Israeli forces as they pursued cross-border raiders. Egypt has recalled its ambassador, accusing Israel of breaching the peace treaty between the two countries. This man says: ‘If Israel thinks that things are like the days of the corrupt regime, when Egyptian soldiers were killed and we were forced to remain quiet, they are wrong.’”

 

Israel’s Defense Minister has expressed regrets over the deaths of the Egyptian policemen and ordered an investigation into that attack. Meanwhile, the Arab League has planned an emergency meeting to address the Gaza crisis.  

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