[[{"content_id":"3138","domain_id":"0","lang_id":"en","portal_id":"2","owner_id":"83","user_id":"2","view_accesslevel_id":"0","edit_accesslevel_id":"0","delete_accesslevel_id":"0","editor_id":"0","content_title":"Gaza Flare-up Day Two: Fresh Israeli airstrikes prompt rocket fire","content_number":"","content_date_event":"2019-11-13 19:44:26","content_summary":"Eight more Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip as the Israeli military renews its air raids against the besieged coastal enclave for a second day, prompting retaliatory rocket fire into the occupied territories.","content_summary_fill":"1","content_body":" \r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAl-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamist Jihad movement, said on Wednesday that a member of the resistance group, Khalid Mavaz, 38, had lost his life in an Israeli airstrike on central Gaza.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe Israeli military said its forces targeted Mavaz as he was preparing to launch rockets into the Israeli-occupied territories, a day after the regime assassinated senior Islamic Jihad commander Baha Abu al-Ata, along with his wife, in a targeted strike.\r\n\r\nSeven Palestinian also lost their lives in the raids, according to the health ministry in the blockaded enclave, bringing the death toll from the regime’s assaults since Tuesday morning to 18.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAn Israeli missile launched from the “Iron Dome” missile system is pictured in Sderot on November 12, 2019. (Photo by AFP)\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAccording to the latest figures by the Gaza Health Ministry, the Israeli raids have left a total of 45 people injured, including 23 children.\r\n\r\nAta’s assassination sparked Palestinian retaliatory attacks, with Israeli military sources saying more than 200 rockets have been fired from Gaza into the occupied territories on Tuesday.\r\n\r\nIsrael’s national emergency service said it had treated 46 Israelis since the Gaza rocket fire began.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nPressTV-Israel kills resistance cmdr., Gaza fighters strike back\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\nThe Israeli military has assassinated a senior commander of Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement in an airstrike in Gaza, sparking a barrage of retaliatory rocket fire from the besieged strip.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n‘Israel initiated confrontation, but can’t determine its end’\r\n\r\nSpeaking on Tuesday evening, a spokesman for the al-Quds Brigades warned of further rocket fire from Gaza, stressing that Israel is not the side to determine how the current round of fighting in the blockaded enclave would end.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n“We hold the enemy fully responsible for the consequences of its stupid decision to assassinate the leadership of the resistance,” Abu Hamza said. “The coming hours will add a new headline to the record of defeats of the enemy’s rash prime minister, who has only brought the Zionists destruction and war.”\r\n\r\n\r\n“We tell the enemy: Perhaps you succeeded in starting this aggression against our people and resistance, but you will not be able to determine when it ends. The coming hours will record a victory for our people. While you started the battle, you will not be able to know when it will end,” he added.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n#\u0634\u0627\u0647\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0642\u0628\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u062d\u062f\u06cc\u062f\u06cc\u0629 \u062a\u062d\u0627\u0648\u0644 \u0627\u0639\u062a\u0631\u0627\u0636 \u0635\u0648\u0627\u0631\u06cc\u062e \u0641\u06cc \u0633\u0645\u0627\u0621 \u0645\u0646\u0637\u0642\u0629 \u063a\u0631\u0628 \u0627\u0644\u0642\u062f\u0633 pic.twitter.com\/hfnZQSi7L7\r\n\r\n\r\n— \u0648\u06a9\u0627\u0644\u0629 \u0634\u0647\u0627\u0628 (@ShehabAgency) November 13, 2019\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nSpeaking on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin threatened “more blows” if Palestinian resistance fighters refuse to stop launching rockets.\r\n\r\n“They have one choice: to stop these attacks or absorb more and more blows. Their choice,” Netanyahu said at the start of a cabinet meeting, claiming that Israel was not seeking a further escalation.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nMuslim states slam Israel\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe Israeli attacks have sparked a wave of condemnations from Muslim countries and international organizations.\r\n\r\nOn Tuesday, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) condemned the Israeli aggression against Gaza, saying it constitutes a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law conventions.\r\n\r\nThe 57-member Jeddah-based organization also held Israel accountable for the consequences of the dangerous Gaza escalation and called on the international community to shoulder its responsibilities towards providing international protection for the Palestinian people.\r\n\r\nSimilarly, the Arab League held the Tel Aviv regime responsible for the “horrific crime” it had committed in Gaza and its consequences, adding that Tuesday's raid comes in continuation of acts of aggression by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinians.\r\n\r\n“This comes in the context of exposed Israeli attempts to let the Palestinian people pay the price of the predicaments and agendas of Israeli parties,” the 22-member pan-Arab body said in a statement.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\nIsrael, the Arab League noted, wants to push the Gaza situation to further deterioration, drag the region into violence and threaten international peace and security.\r\n\r\n\r\nThe Arab League further called for international intervention to stop the Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people and provide them with protection.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe mother of Palestinian Zaki Ghanama, 25, mourns over his body at the morgue of a hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on November 12, 2019, following an Israeli strike. (Photo by AFP)\r\n\r\nAdditionally, Jordan denounced the Israeli airstrikes and urged the international community to promptly act in order to stop the regime’s aggression on the besieged coastal sliver.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe Jordan news agency, Petra quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Daifallah al-Fayez as saying that “the Israeli escalation against the Gaza Strip and targeting of innocent civilians will only increase tension and violence, deepen despair and promote extremist agendas in the region, and will not lead to any solutions.”\r\n\r\n“The solution to the problem in the Gaza Strip lies in finding a real political horizon through returning to the negotiating table between Israel and Palestine, lifting the unjust blockade on the enclave, promptly addressing the humanitarian needs there and respecting the international law,” he added.\r\n\r\nLebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement censured Tuesday’s raids on both Gaza and the Syrian capital, Damascus, where the home of another Islamic Jihad figure came under attack in a failed assassination attempt.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nThe Israeli strike in Damascus hit the home of Akram al-Ajouri, killing his son and another person.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nPressTV-Reactions to Israel: Iran urges action against ‘war criminals’\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\nIsrael’s assassination of a senior Palestinian resistance commander has opened the floodgates of reaction.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIn a statement, Hezbollah offered condolences to the Islamic Jihad and the victims’ families on the martyrdom of their loved ones, highlighting the Palestinians’ steadfastness and the resistance’s ability to respond strongly to the Zionist aggression.\r\n\r\n\r\nFurthermore, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh released a series of tweets on Tuesday, condemning the Israeli strikes on Gaza and demanding that the UN take action.\r\n\r\nShtayyeh also slammed competitors in Israeli elections for using “Palestinian blood as an electoral card,” emphasizing that the Palestinian government has been conducting intensive regional and international contacts to deter the aggression.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n#\u0635\u0648\u0631 \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0636\u0631\u0627\u0631 \u0641\u06cc \u0645\u0633\u062a\u0648\u0637\u0646\u0629 "\u0633\u062f\u06cc\u0631\u0648\u062a" \u0628\u0641\u0639\u0644 \u0635\u0648\u0627\u0631\u06cc\u062e \u063a\u0632\u0629 pic.twitter.com\/d6I11P72o8\r\n\r\n\r\n— \u0641\u0644\u0633\u0637\u06cc\u0646 \u0644\u0627\u06cc\u0641 (@palliveps) November 13, 2019\r\n\r\n\r\nTruce efforts underway\r\n\r\nMeanwhile, Egyptian officials, who were speaking on condition of anonymity, said Cairo is attempting to help de-escalate tensions between Israel and Gaza.\r\n\r\nEgypt’s general intelligence agency, they said, has stepped up communications and “opened channels” with the US and the European Union.\r\n\r\nMoreover, a diplomatic source told The Times of Israel that UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov “is heading urgently to Cairo,” adding that the world body has been involved throughout the day to de-escalate tensions.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAzzam al-Ahmad, a senior Fatah and Palestine Liberation Organization official, confirmed contacts with Egypt and the UN to push for a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza.\r\n\r\n“We have been in touch with the Egyptian intelligence as well as United Nations to push for a restoration of calm and an end to the spilling of blood,” he told The Times of Israel in a phone call.\r\n\r\n ","content_html":"
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Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamist Jihad movement,\u00a0said on Wednesday that a member of the resistance group, Khalid Mavaz, 38, had lost his life in an Israeli airstrike on central Gaza.<\/p>\n\n

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The Israeli military said its forces targeted Mavaz as he was preparing to launch rockets into the Israeli-occupied territories, a day after the regime assassinated senior Islamic Jihad commander Baha Abu al-Ata, along with his wife, in a targeted strike.<\/p>\n\n

Seven Palestinian also lost their lives in the raids, according to the health ministry in the blockaded enclave, bringing the death toll from the regime\u2019s assaults since Tuesday morning to 18.<\/p>\n\n

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An Israeli missile launched from the \u201cIron Dome\u201d missile system is pictured in Sderot on November 12, 2019. (Photo by AFP)<\/p>\n\n

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According to the latest figures by the Gaza Health Ministry, the Israeli raids have left a total of 45 people injured, including 23 children.<\/p>\n\n

Ata\u2019s assassination sparked Palestinian retaliatory attacks, with Israeli military sources saying more than 200 rockets have been fired from Gaza into the occupied territories on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n

Israel\u2019s\u00a0national emergency service said it had treated 46 Israelis since the Gaza rocket fire began.<\/p>\n\n

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PressTV-Israel kills resistance cmdr., Gaza fighters strike back<\/a><\/div>\n\n

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The Israeli military has assassinated a senior commander of Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement in an airstrike in Gaza, sparking a barrage of retaliatory rocket fire from the besieged strip.<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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\u2018Israel initiated confrontation, but can\u2019t determine its end\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Speaking on Tuesday evening, a spokesman for the al-Quds Brigades warned of further rocket fire from Gaza, stressing that Israel is not the side to determine how the current round of fighting in the blockaded enclave would end.<\/p>\n\n

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\u201cWe hold the enemy fully responsible for the consequences of its stupid decision to assassinate the leadership of the resistance,\u201d Abu Hamza said. \u201cThe coming hours will add a new headline to the record of defeats of the enemy\u2019s rash prime minister, who has only brought the Zionists destruction and war.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

\u201cWe tell the enemy: Perhaps you succeeded in starting this aggression against our people and resistance, but you will not be able to determine when it ends. The coming hours will record a victory for our people. While you started the battle, you will not be able to know when it will end,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n

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Speaking on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin threatened \u201cmore blows\u201d if Palestinian resistance fighters refuse to stop launching rockets.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cThey have one choice: to stop these attacks or absorb more and more blows. Their choice,\u201d Netanyahu said at the start of a cabinet meeting, claiming that Israel was not seeking a further escalation.<\/p>\n\n

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The Israeli attacks have sparked a wave of condemnations from Muslim countries and international organizations.<\/p>\n\n

On Tuesday, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) condemned the Israeli aggression against Gaza, saying it constitutes a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law conventions.<\/p>\n\n

The 57-member Jeddah-based organization also held Israel accountable for the consequences of the dangerous Gaza escalation and called on the international community to shoulder its responsibilities towards providing international protection for the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n\n

Similarly, the Arab League held the Tel Aviv regime responsible for the \u201chorrific crime\u201d it had committed in Gaza and its consequences, adding that Tuesday's raid comes in continuation of acts of aggression by the Israeli occupation against the Palestinians.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cThis comes in the context of exposed Israeli attempts to let the Palestinian people pay the price of the predicaments and agendas of Israeli parties,\u201d the\u00a022-member\u00a0pan-Arab\u00a0body said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n

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Israel, the Arab League noted, wants to push the Gaza situation to further deterioration, drag the region into violence and threaten international peace and security.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

The Arab League further called for international intervention to stop the Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people and provide them with protection.<\/p>\n\n

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The mother of Palestinian Zaki Ghanama, 25, mourns over his body at the morgue of a hospital in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on November 12, 2019, following an Israeli strike. (Photo by AFP)<\/p>\n\n

Additionally, Jordan denounced the Israeli airstrikes and urged the international community to promptly act in order to stop the regime\u2019s aggression on the besieged coastal sliver.<\/p>\n\n

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The Jordan\u00a0news agency, Petra quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Daifallah al-Fayez as saying that \u201cthe Israeli escalation against the Gaza Strip and targeting of innocent civilians will only increase tension and violence, deepen despair and promote extremist agendas in the region, and will not lead to any solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

\u201cThe solution to the problem in the Gaza Strip lies in finding a real political horizon through returning to the negotiating table between Israel and Palestine, lifting the unjust blockade on the enclave, promptly addressing the humanitarian needs there and respecting the international law,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n

Lebanon\u2019s Hezbollah resistance movement censured Tuesday\u2019s raids on both Gaza and the Syrian capital, Damascus, where the home of another Islamic Jihad figure came under attack in a failed assassination attempt.<\/p>\n\n

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The Israeli strike in Damascus hit the home of Akram al-Ajouri, killing his son and another person.<\/p>\n\n

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Israel\u2019s assassination of a senior Palestinian resistance commander has opened the floodgates of reaction.<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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In a statement, Hezbollah offered condolences to the Islamic Jihad and the victims\u2019 families on the martyrdom of their loved ones, highlighting the Palestinians\u2019 steadfastness and the resistance\u2019s ability to respond strongly to the Zionist aggression.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Furthermore, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh released a series of tweets on Tuesday, condemning\u00a0the Israeli strikes\u00a0on Gaza and demanding that the UN take action.<\/p>\n\n

Shtayyeh also slammed competitors in Israeli elections for using \u201cPalestinian blood as an electoral card,\u201d emphasizing that the Palestinian government has been conducting intensive regional and international contacts to deter the aggression.<\/p>\n\n

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Truce efforts underway<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Meanwhile, Egyptian officials, who were speaking on condition of anonymity, said Cairo is attempting to help de-escalate tensions between Israel and Gaza.<\/p>\n\n

Egypt\u2019s general intelligence agency, they said, has stepped up communications and \u201copened channels\u201d with the US and the European Union.<\/p>\n\n

Moreover, a diplomatic source told The Times of Israel that UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov \u201cis heading urgently to Cairo,\u201d adding that the world body has been involved throughout the day to de-escalate tensions.<\/p>\n\n

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Azzam al-Ahmad, a senior Fatah and Palestine Liberation Organization official, confirmed contacts\u00a0with Egypt and the UN to push for a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cWe have been in touch with the Egyptian intelligence as well as United Nations to push for a restoration of calm and an end to the spilling of blood,\u201d he told The Times of Israel in a phone call.<\/p>\n\n

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