300 dead, 1600 injured and still counting

[EndtheMadnessNow]

That's the largest bomb crater I ever seen in my life. Must've been a Hamas R&D nuke.

Guess the Brits are up next at the war room roundtable:

UK PM Sunak to visit Israel on Thursday

Sunak will also urge the opening up of a route to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza as soon as possible, and to enable British nationals trapped in Gaza to leave.

At least seven British nationals have been killed and at least nine are missing since the attack on Israel, Sunak's spokesperson said earlier on Wednesday.

Alongside Sunak's visit, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, who visited Israel last week, will travel to Egypt, Turkey and Qatar over the next three days to discuss the conflict and seek a peaceful resolution, his office said.

https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1714548529538953637





Early speculation on the calm before the storm from what Bibi Netanyahu has said will be a very long brutal war...

Gaza Strip to shrink after war, says Israeli foreign minister

Israel’s foreign minister said that it will shrink the Gaza Strip, raising fears that parts of the territory will be annexed or reoccupied at the end of the war.

Speaking to Israel’s Army Radio on Wednesday, Eli Cohen vowed to eliminate Hamas from Gaza and then predicted a “decrease” in Gazan territory.

“At the end of this war, not only will Hamas no longer be in Gaza, but the territory of Gaza will also decrease,” he said.

It was unclear if Mr Cohen meant that a buffer zone would be formed from parts of Gaza, or that Israel intends to absorb parts of the land completely into its territory.

US State Department report from 1988 details birth of Hamas.



FUNDAMENTALISM AND THE INTIFADA: DEFINING THE ISSUES


Israeli Defense Intelligence Chief Amos Yadlin in 2007: 


MILITARY INTELLIGENCE DIRECTOR YADLIN COMMENTS ON GAZA, SYRIA AND LEBANON


Article from 2009 that has been recently updated: there are natural gas reserves at stake, which complicate the already complex religio-cultural geopolitics of the Middle East...

Who Owns the Gas Fields

The issue of sovereignty over Gaza’s gas fields is crucial. From a legal standpoint, the gas reserves belong to Palestine.

The death of Yasser Arafat, the election of the Hamas government and the ruin of the Palestinian Authority have enabled Israel to establish de facto control over Gaza’s offshore gas reserves.

British Gas (BG Group) has been dealing with the Tel Aviv government. In turn, the Hamas government has been bypassed in regards to exploration and development rights over the gas fields.

The election of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in 2001 was a major turning point. Palestine’s sovereignty over the offshore gas fields was challenged in the Israeli Supreme Court. Sharon stated unequivocally that “Israel would never buy gas from Palestine” intimating that Gaza’s offshore gas reserves belong to Israel.

In 2003, Ariel Sharon, vetoed an initial deal, which would allow British Gas to supply Israel with natural gas from Gaza’s offshore wells. (The Independent, August 19, 2003)

The election victory of Hamas in 2006 was conducive to the demise of the Palestinian Authority, which became confined to the West Bank, under the proxy regime of Mahmoud Abbas.

In 2006, British Gas “was close to signing a deal to pump the gas to Egypt.” (Times, May, 23, 2007). According to reports, British Prime Minister Tony Blair intervened on behalf of Israel with a view to shunting the agreement with Egypt.

The following year, in May 2007, the Israeli Cabinet approved a proposal by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert  “to buy gas from the Palestinian Authority.” The proposed contract was for $4 billion, with profits of the order of $2 billion of which one billion was to go the Palestinians.

Tel Aviv, however, had no intention on sharing the revenues with Palestine. An Israeli team of negotiators was set up by the Israeli Cabinet to thrash out a deal with the BG Group, bypassing both the Hamas government and the Palestinian Authority:

“Israeli defence authorities want the Palestinians to be paid in goods and services and insist that no money go to the Hamas-controlled Government.” (Ibid, emphasis added)

The objective was essentially to nullify the contract signed in 1999 between the BG Group and the Palestinian Authority under Yasser Arafat.

Under the proposed 2007 agreement with BG, Palestinian gas from Gaza’s offshore wells was to be channeled by an undersea pipeline to the Israeli seaport of Ashkelon, thereby transferring control over the sale of the natural gas to Israel.

War and Natural Gas: The Israeli Invasion and Gaza’s Offshore Gas Fields

Which of us would want to see the income from this treasure go to an opponent who has made his intention very clear by numerous statements or deeds that his goal is to wipe you out?

Sooner or later some globalist group will start talking about an international solution to the whole mess, and an international authority for all that energy. Will probably be one of those high & mighty international authorities that are also in favor of "Green" & "NetZero" agenda.


ETA: add-on to BIAD's post above:

Hamas failed rocket launches:





Apparently, a very common occurrence.