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Originally Posted by Rochard
Got a link to this?
I was under the understanding that things were "somewhat quiet" until the three teenagers were kidnapped and killed.
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Hamas was trying to stop other people from firing rockets at Israel when they were attacked. This is AFTER 500 of their people were arrested for no reason in the West Bank (now we know that Hamas wasn't involved with the kidnapping and murder of those 3 teens).
That's how this was all set off. Israel attacked Hamas - guys Hamas had sent out to stop rocket attacks.
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The security sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, assessed that Hamas had probably launched the barrage in revenge for an Israeli airstrike several hours earlier which killed one person and injured three more.
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While Israel has maintained it holds Hamas responsible for all rocket attacks, officials have said that smaller groups, such as Islamic Jihad, are usually behind the rocket attacks, while Hamas squads generally attempt to thwart the rocket fire.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-f...#ixzz38dsOLHg6
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Some more:
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Hamas has had no interest in a major escalation, and had not been directly attacking Israel until the last few days. But ever since one of its members, Mohammed Obeid, was killed in an Israeli border attack at the end of last month ? an apparent error: the IDF thought it was firing at a rocket-launch cell, but actually struck Hamas members deployed to prevent rocket fire ? it has changed its approach.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-s...s-keep-coming/
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Same thing happened in 2012 with Jabari, he was days away from drafting a long term cease fire with Israel, had abandoned violence and was the go to guy for making sure other factions don't fire at Israel. So Israel killed him.
You can accept the lies told to you on the news that Israel is protecting themselves from rocket fire but that simply isn't true. You can believe the lies that Hamas is firing at civilians but again that simply isn't true. Israel has been killing the civilians - Hamas has killed 3 civilians out of 46 deaths, and one of them was in a military camp.
Some will tell you that the Iron Dome is the reason more aren't dying but go look at the statistics of the Iron Dome. That thing changed nothing. The same amount of rockets were fired, the same amount of deaths. Hamas had plenty of opportunity to go in through their tunnels and kill civilians but they didn't, they used them against the Israeli military exclusively.
So keep on believing whatever you want but know that the facts are that Israel started this, Israel didn't start this because of rocket attacks but rather because of the unity government that had been formed and the threat to Israel that is true peace with the Palestinians.