‘’The Jewish people always comes together to face shared challenges. Today is no different,’’ wrote Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a letter to Jewish communities around the world.
Air raid sirens wailed in Ashkelon and in Gaza-border communities almost without end since Friday morning at 8 am, when the 72-hour ceasefire officially expired with more than 35 rockets and mortars fired on Israel within four hours.
One of those injured in moderate condition, while the other sustained light injuries; community security fence and several houses damaged by Gaza rocket fire.
Terror group calls for Palestinian negotiators to leave Cairo talks, not agree to cease-fire extension if terms not met; Egypt pressing Hamas, Islamic Jihad to extend cease-fire that ends Friday morning.
Three main European Union countries, Germany, France and Britain, have proposed to reactivate an EU mission on the Egypt-Gaza border to help stabilize the Gaza Strip after the month-long conflict.
“Israel deeply regrets every civilian casualty, every single one. We do not target them; we do not seek them. The people of Gaza are not our enemy.’’ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a foreign media press conference Wednesday, on the second day of a 72-hour ceasefire, to sum up Operation Protective Edge.
A Jewish businessman from Munich abandoned his work for a week in order to volunteer to help the Israeli army and residents of the southern Israel during Operation Protective Edge.
The international media will have to answer for the intimidation by Hamas of journalists working in Gaza, which has produced a one-sided anti-Israel narrative in the mainstream press, World Jewish Congress (WJC) spokeswoman E.J. Kessler said Wednesday.
