Gaza 2012 - Cast Lead part 2

• 11/21/2012
• Bus explosion in Tel Aviv (16 injured - No party claims responsibility)
• Hamas celebrates
• Unidentified attackers have firebombed an office of Arab satellite broadcaster Al-Jazeera in the Egyptian capital
• Israel conducts bombing on Gaza
• Another truce?
• 11/20/2012
• Gaza and Israel agree to and Egyptian brokered ceasefire
• Israel denies
• Israeli Knesset approves the call-up of 70,000 reservists
• The IAF dropped leaflets across northern Gaza on Tuesday urging local Arab civilians to evacuate immediately.
• An assailant armed with a knife and an ax stabbed a security guard at the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv 
• Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon each planned with Israeli officials and with Palestinian officials in the West Bank
• Gaza targeted -
• Reputed Israeli spy dragged behind a motorcycle by Hamas members.
• 11/19/2012 - Death toll (101 Palestinian, 3 Israeli, 252 wounded)
• Israel targeted -
• A high rise complex (Eleven civilians, four of them children)
• Ramez Harb, a senior figure in Islamic Jihad's military wing, the Al Quds Brigades, was killed in the attack.
• Israel claims was due to a technical hitch in their targeting equipment.
• The same media center is hit again.
• Soccer field is blown up (Hiding missiles)
• Four Egyptian activists were hurt
• Israel takes over Hamas programming
• Israel warned Hamas it will step up its offensive in the Gaza Strip in 36 hours if they do not cease rocket fire.
• Ihe Israeli cabinet has doubled the troop reserve quota for the Gaza offensive and called up a total of 16,000 reservists.
• Turkey denounces Israel
• Hamas, Fatah rivals agree to unite over Gaza crisis
• Rockets targeting the country's commercial capital Tel Aviv for a fourth day. The two missiles were shot down by Israel's Iron Dome air shield. 
• Military experts have dismantled two Katyusha rockets aimed at Israel. They were found in south Lebanon. The official says the rockets found Monday near the village of Halta were placed about four kilometers (2.5 miles) away from the Lebanon-Israel border and were equipped with timers. (False flag?)
• 11/18/2012 - Death toll (101 Palestinian dead, 400 wounded; 3 Israeli, 79 wounded)
• Ceasefire talks fail on Israeli demands for more 'buffer zones'
• Israel deliberately targets media building (Sky news)
  
• RT news destroyed
• Six journalists injured.

• Israel takes over radio broadcasts in Gaza
• Gilad Sharon, son of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, wrote an op-ed on Sunday calling for even more aggressive Israeli strikes in Gaza. "The residents of Gaza are not innocent, they elected Hamas. The Gazans aren’t hostages; they chose this freely, and must live with the consequences." After saying that Israel needs to "flatten all of Gaza," he goes on to say, "The Americans didn’t stop with Hiroshima – the Japanese weren’t surrendering fast enough, so they hit Nagasaki, too.""
•  Gaza targeted - 
• Dozens of rockets at Israel
• One at Tel Aviv (Iron Dome intercepted)
• 11/16/2012
• Israel targeted -  
• The Israeli Air Force bombed the 10,000-seat Palestine Stadium "into ruins."
• Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks told the BBC that the current escalation of tensions between Israel and Hamas has "got to do with Iran, actually."
• 11/15/2012
• Gaza targeted - 
• A rocket struck a four-story apartment building in Kiryat Malakhi in southern Israel. 
• Three Israelis were killed, two others were suffering moderate injuries, including a baby.
• A rocket fired into the Eshkol region injured three IDF soldiers, two moderately.
• A rocket targeted Jerusalem  and hit Tel Aviv for the first time since 1991.
• Israeli jets and drones hit dozens of targets throughout Gaza, including munitions warehouses and residential buildings that the military said operated as warehouses. The military said it targeted more than 100 long- and medium- range rocket launching sites and several launch squads overnight, doing “significant” damage to stockpiles that include Iran-supplied Fajr-5 missiles.
• 11/14/2012 - Death toll (13 Palestinians (including 3 children and a woman), 115 injured)
• Israel targeted -  
• Operation Pillar of Defense (Cloud) launched
• According to the Israeli government, the operation began in response to three events: Palestinian groups launching over 100 rockets at Israeli civilians over a 24-hour period, an attack on an Israeli military patrol jeep within Israeli borders by Gaza militants, and a tunnel explosion caused by IEDs near Israeli soldiers on the Israeli side of the fence.
• At 4pm local time, he IDF assassinated the head of the Hamas military wing, Ahmed Jabari 
• Anonymous targets Israeli websites 
• Egypt -
• Egypt’s  government condemned Jabari’s assassination and announced the withdrawal of its ambassador to Israel.  
• Egypt confirms 3 rockets were fired from Sinai towards Israel
• 11/13/2012
• More talks of a truce resulted in a 24 hour ceasefire.
• 11/12/2012
• Israel targeted - 
• Israel carried out several airstrikes in Gaza overnight targeting a smuggling tunnel and a rocket launch site in northern Gaza. 
• Gaza targeted - 
• Two rockets launched (or 12?)
• 11/11/2012
• Israel targeted -
• Gershon Baskin, who was a mediator between Israel and Hamas in the negotiations that resulted in the release of Gilad Shalit, reported that hours before the strike that killed Ahmed Jabari, he received a draft of a permanent truce agreement between Israel and Hamas.
• A Palestinian fighter Mohammad Obeid, 20, of the Al-Quds Brigades was killed at dawn when the Israeli army fired a shell at an area in northern Gaza.
• Four other fighters were wounded, one seriously, after they were targeted by Israeli army shells near Al-Karama Towers, northwest of Gaza City.
• The army bombarded a land in the Az-Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza City. 
• An Israeli drone also fired a missile at a land near the Jabalia club, in northern Gaza, but the missile did not explode after impact. 
• Fires also broke out at a Brick Factory in At-Tuffah neighborhood west of Gaza City, after the army fired two tank shells at it; excessive damage was reported, no injuries.
• The soldiers further fired three missiles at a land next to a training center that belongs to the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, in Tal Al-Sultan neighborhood, west of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, excessive damage was reported but no injuries
• Minister of Water and Infrastructure, Uzi Landau (Yisrael Beytenu), said that the IDF needs to prepare a ground assault into Gaza, and to begin targeting the heads of Hamas.
• Gaza targeted -
• No rockets fired
• Two Israeli soldiers suffered moderate injuries after their vehicle was targeted by a Palestinian shell near the Karni Crossing
• Talks of a truce
• 11/10/2012
• Gaza targeted -
• Gaza shoots 30 rockets and mortars into Israel, 5 exploded
• Militants from a non-Hamas faction fired an antitank missile at an Israeli jeep traveling along the Israel-Gaza border, injuring four Israeli soldiers. (One critically)
• Israel targeted -
• Shelling and firing that Gaza medical officials said killed at least four people in the Sa'ajiya area, including two children, and wounded about two dozen others.
• opened fire on the funeral of one of them 
• 11/09/2012
• Gaza targets - 
• 2 Qassam rockets fired from Gaza hit open ground in southern Israel
• 11/08/2012
• At approximately 16:30, 13 year Hameed Abu Daqqa was killed by an Israeli military helicopter after being shot in the head while playing football with his friends east of Khan Younis
• Israeli military activity inside Gaza border
• Israeli border soldiers had discovered a cache of explosives in a tunnel adjacent to a security fence.
• The explosives were detonated, wounding four Israeli soldiers.
• Tanks responded by firing two rounds towards farmland; no one was injured in that incursion
• Palestinian forces fired on Israeli forces
• A soldier sustained minor injuries and an unoccupied army vehicle was blown up
• 11/05/2012 (Under the backdrop of the US elections)
• Israel targets - 
• Israeli raid breaks truce by crossing into the Gaza Strip late last night near the town of Deir al-Balah. (Ehud Barak, the Israeli defence minister, had personally approved the Gaza raid)
• 6 Gazan gunmen are killed
• Four Israeli troops injured
• Gaza targets -
• Gaza launched a wave of rockets and mortars at Israel
• One Hamas gunman was killed
• In retaliation, an Israeli airstrike killed 5 more Gazans
• In further retaliation, Gazans fire 35 rockets into Israel, one reaching the city of Ashkelon.
• A roadside bomb explodes, injuring Israeli soldiers. 
• 11/04/2012
• Israel targets -
• Israeli forces shot dead "an unarmed, mentally unfit man" walking near an Israeli-imposed "buffer" area inside the occupied Gaza Strip.
• Gaza targets -
• A single rocket fired from Gaza hit southern Israel (on the 5th?)
• 11/2/2012
• Israel targets -
• a 22-year-old Palestinian who, according to IDF was suspected of attempting to place an explosive device on the Gaza-Israel border, was seriously wounded on Friday morning by Israeli tank fire.
• 10/29/2012
• Israel targets -
• Israeli aircraft hit targets in Gaza
• Gaza targeted -
• Militants in Gaza have fired 26 rockets into Israel
• Interesting notes before skirmish
• Fatah/Hamas meeting was planned for 11/11/2012 to unify the two groups. UN recognition for Palestine was coming shortly.
• 10/25/2012
• Israel attacks Sudanese plant
• 10/15/2012 
• Israeli elections announced

Russia, China, Iran side with Gaza


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