Israel downs Gaza drone; 4 Palestinians killed

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-EXCITE

By PETER ENAV

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military said it downed a drone launched by Gaza militants on Monday, the first time it encountered an unmanned aircraft since the start of its offensive last week, as new Israeli airstrikes killed four more Palestinians in the coastal strip.

Israel began its campaign against militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza last Tuesday, saying it was responding to heavy rocket fire from the densely populated territory. The military says it has launched more than 1,300 airstrikes since then, while Palestinian militants have launched nearly 1,000 rockets at Israel.

The outbreak of violence followed the kidnappings and killings of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank last month, as well as the subsequent kidnapping and killing of a Palestinian teenager in an apparent revenge attack, along with Israeli raids against Hamas militants and infrastructure in the West Bank.

The Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza has said that 172 people died in Israeli air attacks, including dozens of civilians. That's without counting Monday's fatalities.

FULL story at link.


Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20140714/ml--israel-palestinians-aba58e2cd1.html

---

Palestinians drive past a building destroyed by an Israeli strike on Friday, in Gaza City, Sunday, July 13, 2014. Thousands of Palestinian residents of the northern Gaza Strip fled their homes on Sunday and sought safety in U.N. shelters, heeding warnings from the Israeli military about impending plans to bomb the area in the sixth day of an offensive against Hamas that has killed more than 160 people. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

[groundloop]

1. And the cycle of hate continues

[Archae]

2. A "Gaza drone?"

Would kind of remind me of the drone Saddam had.

You know, the one with the weed-whacker motor.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. This one was a modified Estes rocket with deployable wings for a slow descent.

[Archae]

4. What would they make it for?

Put explosives on it?

[IronGate]

5. Probably, much like the German V-1 rocket used against Great Britain during WWII.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

9. luckily, your photo also shows the proper scale. It was a foot long, too.

[kelliekat44]

6. I am so sick of the one-sided MSM reporting on this atrocity by Israel. Any other country doing

what Israel is doing (besides the US) would have brought the wrath of the world against them. Renegade nation thy name is Israel.

[former9thward]

7. Israel, How dare you defend yourself!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. this is way past any red-faced effort to call it a defensive action.

It is a vile, murderous, unjustified attack on innocents.

Drone attack. What bullshit.

Like that totally set up, and concocted POS video clip they pushed, done in the best hollywood style, "Look, kids! I'm not firing!" Which was another load of crap and completely manufactured, edited, and promoted solely for American consumption.

This - and all those who maintain that this is a defensive action - sicken me.

[EX500rider]

10. "Any other country doing what Israel is doing..."

Any other country launching 1,300+ airstrikes in a heavy populated area and the casualties would be in the 1,000's+
I am impressed at their ability to keep casualties so low, really unmatched in history.

[Archae]

11. Hamas released pictures and video of the drone...

Those are rockets on the wings.