Israel attack and receive from all fronts. After a night of firing artillery shells towards its southern border with the Gaza Strip and north with the Lebanonthe Jewish State regrets the murder of two Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank this Good Friday. The two sisters, aged 15 and 20, have died after being hit by bullets while driving near the Hamra settlement. Hours later, at night, an attack carried out in the center of Tel Aviv caused at least one death of Italian nationality and five bullet wounds, one of them seriously, and the “neutralization” of the attacker, according to Magen David Adom, equivalent Israeli to the Red Cross. Israeli authorities are preparing for an escalation, call up reservists of the Army Air Force and the Border Police.
It all started, as expected, in Al Aqsa. As the Israeli Jewish citizenry sits around the table to celebrate the passoverhis Passover, thousands of Palestinian Muslims gathered in the complex of mosques in Jerusalem to pray another Wednesday of ramadan. But they didn’t make it. Police forces stormed the Al Aqsa Mosque for the second time in a row and used stun grenades, foam tipped bullets and batons to prevent Palestinians from praying. The response was almost immediate. From the Gaza Strip, rockets were fired Wednesday night towards the Israeli border.
Hamas attack
On Thursday, the projectiles they came from Lebanon and impacted the north of the country, a much calmer border than the southern one. Three people were injured by shrapnel. hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite militia, distanced itself from the attack. The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahuassembled his security cabinet for the first time in two months to plan a response to escalation. Hours later, the Israeli Army attributed responsibility for the attack to Hamas, the Palestinian militia that governs the Gaza Strip de facto. The rockets left Lebanon a few hours after the Hamas leader, ismail haniyehwill land in Beirut.
“Hamas and Hezbollah they have a relationship of coordination and collaboration; both parties are executing the same agenda: that of Iran, of which they are armed hands in the region& rdquor ;, analyzes the military expert Nizar Abdel Kader in the Lebanese newspaper ‘L’Orient – Le Jour’. Israel did not hesitate to respond in kind to both. During the night, the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon were targeted by a string of projectiles from the Israeli Army. In the Palestinian enclave, the population lives accustomed to violence falling from the sky, but in the Lebanese south, Israeli artillery brought them back to the days of war. Thursday night was the biggest escalation since 2006 conflict.
flammable region
Lebanon and Israel “have said that they don’t want war& rdquor ;, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) reported on Friday. The UN peacekeepers, deployed in southern Lebanon to separate the two sides, called on “all parties to cease all actions & rdquor; on both sides of the border. During Friday morning, it seemed that the attacks left behind and that normality returned to the tumultuous region. But an attack on any road in the occupied West Bank has returned to light the flame in holy land.
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Two sisters, aged 15 and 20, have died, probably from the bullet impact, in what initially appeared to be a car crash. His mother is still hospitalized in serious condition. The three were inhabitants of the efrat settlement in the occupied West Bank, south of Jerusalem, and were UK immigrants. The Army is still looking for suspects near the illegal settlement of Hamra, in the northern part of Jericho. Late at night, in Tel Aviv, a man ran over pedestrians with his vehicle on a central avenue until the car overturned. The attacker was killed, according to the statement issued by Magen David Adoman organization equivalent to the Israeli Red Cross.
Hamas has praised the attack and warned Israel “against its continued aggression against our Palestinian people and the Al Aqsa Mosque”. The Israeli police have asked the public with firearms license let them take it with them. The next few days and even hours will be key to preserving many lives.