It is now open war between Israel and the militias of Hamas he was born in Islamic Jihad operating in the Gaza Strip. In 36 hours of conflict, they were launched from the enclave over a thousand rockets to Ashkelon, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and other areas of the Jewish state, in an unprecedented offensive in recent years. On the other hand, while the police forces continue to crack down on the protests of Palestinian inhabitants of Sheikh Jarrah, a neighborhood in East Jerusalem where other expropriations are planned in favor of Israeli settlers, the government led by Benjamin Netanyahu has carried out at least 500 attacks on the Strip, also demolishing two buildings in the city center, and promises not to stop. The result of this new escalation of Israeli-Palestinian blood are already dozens of victims: 43 Palestinians killed in Gaza, including 12 children and three women, and more than 300 people injured, while the Israeli counterpart has six victims. The Germany, with the government spokesperson, Steffen Seibert, which “condemns” the rocket attacks on Israeli cities: “Israel has the right to defend itself from these attacks, ”he said, this“ violence has no justification ”and affects Jewish citizens as well as Muslims. Seibert defined those that have been going on for two days “terrorist attacks”.
Very high tension also in Lod, where yesterday an Israeli Arab was killed during the protests: the Israeli president Reuven Rivlin denounced what he has come to define the “Pogrom of Lod” by “a crowd of bloodthirsty and exalted Arabs”, condemning “the shameful silence of the Arab leadership on these riots” and “support for terrorism”. Meanwhile, Israeli forces have made it known that they have eliminated “simultaneously” senior Hamas commanders a Gaza e Khan yunis, in the north of the Strip. Faced with the crisis, the Security Council of the UN has called a session of emergency where a closed door report on the situation will be presented.