Hamas launches new attack on Israel after Jerusalem clashes

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By JOSEF FEDERMAN and FARES AKRAM

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Hamas militant group on Monday launched a rare rocket strike on Jerusalem after hundreds of Palestinians were hurt in clashes with Israeli police at an iconic mosque, as tensions in the holy city pushed the region closer to full-fledged war.

Israel responded with airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, where 20 people, including nine children, were killed in fighting.

It was a long day of anger and deadly violence that laid bare Jerusalem’s deep divisions, even as Israel tried to celebrate its capture of the city’s eastern sector and its sensitive holy sites more than half a century ago. With dozens of rockets flying into Israel throughout the night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with top security officials and warned that the fighting could drag on, despite calls for calm from the U.S., Europe and elsewhere.

“The terrorist organizations in Gaza have crossed a red line and attacked us with missiles in the outskirts of Jerusalem,” Netanyahu said. “Whoever attacks us will pay a heavy price,” he said, warning that the fighting could “continue for some time.”



Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, Monday, May. 10, 2021. Hamas militants fired dozens of rockets into Israel on Monday, including a barrage that set off air raid sirens as far away as Jerusalem, after hundreds of Palestinians were hurt in clashes with Israeli police at a flashpoint religious site in the contested holy city. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)


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[Roc2020]

1. Almost an impossible problem to solve

[nycbos]

2. There has been violence over this land for 5000 years.

What else is knew?.

[McKim]

3. It is Solvable!

It is solvable. Human Rights should be respected, reparations, and the one state solutions will happen in the future.

[Calista241]

5. Reparations are not happening here. It's too complex.

For the last 1/2 century, the Israeli's have taken land and displaced much of the Palestinian population. But before that, it was the other way around, and the Jews were horribly and violently oppressed, and many fled for Europe where they were almost exterminated in WW2.

Before 1948, Jews were barred from even entering the city of Jerusalem, the holiest city in all of Judaism, much less visiting the wailing wall. The Al-Aqsa Mosque was built on top of the conquered ruins of the Jewish Temple. If that's not historical oppression, I don't know what isn't.

The Jewish people also have an ancestral claim to the land, and we know they occupied the land thousands of years ago. Since its founding, Israel has been invaded twice, and much of the land currently under contention is land captured during this state on state warfare.

[hack89]

9. Israel will not commit national suicide. There will be no one state solution

Nor will there be a right of return.

[Mosby]

6. Hamas is firing rockets into Israel right now

Link to tweet

[Mosby]

7. .

Link to tweet

[EX500rider]

8. Not to mention:

Two people, a man and his teenage daughter, were killed in Lod when a rocket hit their car. They were both Israeli Arabs.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-57083595

[Mosby]

10. Yeah, Hamas doesn't care who they kill. nt

[roamer65]

11. Here comes the Great Middle Eastern War.

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Just wait until Hezbollah lights it up in the north.

[Archae]

12. Exactly WHO is giving Hamas the weapons and support?

Iran?

[ripcord]

13. The reaction of Hamas to anything

Launch rockets and play the victim.