Hamas attacks Israel-Gaza border crossing as cease-fire talks appear to fizzle

[lapucelle]

Source: CBS News

Hamas militants attacked Israel's main crossing point for delivering humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip on Sunday, dealing a blow to the ongoing crease-fire efforts that appear at an impasse with both sides blaming each other.

The attack on Israel's Kerem Shalom crossing killed three Israeli soldiers and wounded several others, three of whom were critically wounded, a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces said Sunday. The attack prompted officials to close the terminal, disrupting critical shipments of food and other humanitarian aid into Gaza.

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The Israeli military said 14 rockets and mortars launched from the Rafah area hit Kerem Shalom crossing. Hamas said it had been targeting Israeli soldiers in the area. Israel's Channel 12 TV channel said 10 people were wounded.

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The military said the crossing was immediately closed, halting deliveries of aid from there into hard-hit Gaza. It was unclear how long the closure would remain in effect.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hamas-attacks-israel-gaza-border-crossing-cease-fire-talks-continue/

[sarisataka]

1. Nope, something is wrong here

I have read on this very site that Hamas is not fighting and hasn't launched any attacks since October 7...

[live love laugh]

7. Just as there are infiltrators on campuses I believe they're in Palestine too.

[stopdiggin]

8. and so you suggest that this is NOT Hamas?

launching rockets at the Israeli troops? How very - - convenient ...

Relatively implausible - - but certainly imaginative ... (and blinkered)
Then of course we have Hamas claiming credit ... But we will find ways to continue to defend ... Apparently even when the combatants claim responsibility.

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[sarisataka]

21. Are you suggesting someone

Infiltrated Gaza to launch rockets at a border crossing with Israel?

[live love laugh]

22. Interpret it however you want.

[sarisataka]

23. I interpret it as

You are wishing reality was different than it is

[oldsoftie]

2. An ambulance was also attacked. But ANY Israeli is a legit target to Hamas

And thats why as many of them as possible need to be eliminated.

[bluestarone]

3. Isn't this where Bibi wants to send his soldiers?

Sounds kinds stinky to me. We,ll se i guess.

[lapucelle]

4. To the humanitarian aid crossing? No, I don't think so.

From Reuters:

Hamas armed wing claims responsibility for deadly attack on Israel-Gaza crossing

Three Israeli soldiers were killed in a rocket attack claimed by Hamas armed wing, near the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, where Palestinian health officials said at least 19 people were killed by Israeli fire on Sunday.

Hamas's armed wing claimed responsibility on Sunday for an attack on the Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza that Israel said killed three of its soldiers.

Israel's military said 10 projectiles were launched from Rafah in southern Gaza towards the area of the crossing, which it said was now closed to aid trucks going into the coastal enclave. Other crossings remained open.

Hamas' armed wing said it fired rockets at an Israeli army base by the crossing, but did not confirm where it fired them from. Hamas media quoted a source close to the group as saying the commercial crossing was not the target.

https://www.aol.com/hamas-armed-wing-says-responsible-120541565.html

[emulatorloo]

5. Incorrect. This is where humanitarian aid is supposed to come in to Gaza.

As the article notes, this attack by Hamas resulted in “halting deliveries of aid from there into hard-hit Gaza.”

[Igel]

27. People that support science

seem oddly at odds with the idea of cause and effect.

In so many ways.

[AZLD4Candidate]

6. I guess this is more of those Israeli genocide tactics I keep about but have been given no evidence exists.

For the pure and innocent Hamas freedom fighters, who never do anything wrong and are completely honest, to attack a humanitarian crossing because terrorism and attacking unarmed people is all they can do to enact their "from the river to the sea" philosophy Bibi and the evil Israelis have forced them to adopt because Israeli is an apartheid state and dictatorship even though there are Palestinians that are Israeli citizens and Israeli has elections.

Before Israel we had no enemies in the Middle East, after Israel we have no friends.

[TeamProg]

10. It was Netanyahu who propped up Hamas. That is not news. I don't know how

you missed that.




https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218346296

[stopdiggin]

12. And so we're going to continue to trot

that out - - as, 'reasons' - as Hamas repeatedly attempts to cripple any efforts to aid the starving population?
Okie dokie, then!

[stopdiggin]

11. maybe we can get the SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine)

to send a strongly worded message .. ? Letter of concern .. ?

I mean, with starvation already rolling out. The civilian population in desperate straits ...
World leaders united in the push for increased aid ...

[AZLD4Candidate]

15. As long as Israel gets all the blame. Hamas are innocent freedom fighters and not an internationally recognized

terrorist organization.

[SunSeeker]

17. Well, since SJP celebrated the 10/7 attack when it happened...

I'm thinking any letter SJP sends won't be helpful.

[IronLionZion]

13. They closed the crossing so humanitarian aid can't get in

people are dying of starvation and lack of medicine.

Hamas are suicidal and want Israel to kill them. Other people in the area didn't make that choice.

[AZLD4Candidate]

14. All Israel's fault as usual.

[mcar]

19. I was waiting for this

"They" closed the crossing because Hamas terrorists bombed it, killing people and making it unsafe. What would you be saying if Israel kept it open and an aid truck was bombed? Would that be Israel's fault too?

[IronLionZion]

20. Hamas doesn't feel too punished

plenty of non-Hamas people are feeling the polar opposite of safe and don't have many options besides starvation and death.

[stopdiggin]

24. Hamas doesn't feel anything at all

(slavering sociopaths that they are) Which does NOT mean that they shouldn't be assigned blame when they so clearly are deserving. (see topic OP here) Which, apparently, remains simply beyond the scope of certain voices ...

[IronLionZion]

25. Hamas wants to die, they welcome it

That's not the case for everyone else in the area.

[stopdiggin]

26. including those that are working to deliver aid

to exactly those you point to.
Now if someone else hinders or wreaks havoc on the delivery of aid - that's deplorable, and probably an international crime. But if Hamas effects the same action ... Ho hum. "No comment." "But the Palestinian people are not Hamas .. "

[Igel]

28. Well, yes,

apparently they do welcome it for everyone else in the area.

As a Hamas official safe and sound in Qatar said months back, it means more Palestinians die martyrs and to go paradise. Or something like that.

"I welcome death ... for others." Now, in war, I can saying that about the enemy. But about those you presumably share group affinity with?

[TeamProg]

9. I'm wondering who is going to pay for all of the rebuilding of structures

and infrastructure in Gaza now that much of it had been bombed to smithereens.

?

[stopdiggin]

16. and virtually nothing to offer on the OP, or topic presented there?

Does that perhaps illustrate ... ?

[mopinko]

18. big donors shd claw back some of the stolen aid money sitting i quatar.

i think the key to this who thing is quatar and saudi arabia. they r working toward peace.
i say let the grifters keep enough money to retire on, give them a dacha somewhere, and send the rest of the money back to b spent like it was supposed to b.

there r literally billions being hoarded abroad. take it.