Israel violates Gaza ceasefire nearly every day | The Electronic Intifada
After Israeli warplanes bombed Gaza on Friday, the BBC described the air strike on “a Hamas facility” as “the first such action since the declaration of a truce in August.”
The short BBC News item, essentially a repackaged Israeli army press statement, added that the strike was “in response” to a rocket fired earlier from Gaza.
The casual reader would understand this to mean that Israel has held its fire since the August ceasefire which ended the intensive bombing this summer that claimed more than 2,200 Palestinian lives.
However, the reality is that Israel has fired on Palestinians in Gaza nearly every day since the 26 August truce.
Meanwhile, Israel and Egypt have kept Gaza totally sealed and its 1.8 million inhabitants effectively imprisoned.
Palestinians walk past the rubble of houses in Gaza City’s Shujaiya
neighborhood which were destroyed during Israel’s summer offensive, 8
December.
