{"id":3761,"date":"2014-08-23T04:58:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T04:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=3761"},"modified":"2014-08-23T04:58:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T04:58:41","slug":"gaza-crisis-israel-kills-three-top-hamas-commanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2014\/08\/23\/3761\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza crisis: Israel kills three top Hamas commanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/stories\/news3\/bombar-on-palestine.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px;\" \/>An Israeli air strike on a house in Gaza has killed three senior Hamas military commanders, militants say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mohammed Abu Shamala, Mohammed Barhoum and Raed al-Attar died in the attack near the southern town of Rafah, which Gaza officials said killed at least 10.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">An Israeli was severely injured as rockets were fired into Israel on Thursday, the army said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hostilities between the two sides resumed after talks on a long-term ceasefire deal collapsed on Tuesday.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Israel has vowed to pursue its campaign until &#8220;full security&#8221; is achieved.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Six weeks of fierce fighting have left at least 2,138 people dead, according to officials. All but 67 of the dead are Palestinians, with most of them said to be civilians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>&#8216;Missile after missile&#8217;<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Israel&#8217;s strike on Rafah demolished a four-storey building.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Local man Hamza Khalifa told AP news agency there had been no warning: &#8220;We only heard multiple F-16 [warplane] missiles, one after the other, six or seven missiles.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the &#8220;superior intelligence&#8221; of the domestic Shin Bet security service and the &#8220;precise execution&#8221; of the attack.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;Operation Protective Edge will continue until its objective has been fulfilled &#8211; the restoration of long-term quiet for the citizens of Israel while causing significant damage to terrorist infrastructure,&#8221; he said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The three commanders killed were key to operations including smuggling, tunnel construction and capturing the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2006, the BBC&#8217;s Yolande Knell reports.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;The assassinations of the three Qassam [Hamas military wing] leaders is a grave crime,&#8221; Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters news agency. &#8220;But it will not break our people and Israel will pay the price for it.&#8221;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Israel&#8217;s military said it had carried out 20 attacks on targets in Gaza during the night in response to militant rocket attacks. Since talks on extending the ceasefire failed, 213 rockets had been fired at Israel, it added.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In another development, Hamas warned foreign airlines to stop flying to and from Tel Aviv&#8217;s Ben Gurion Airport from Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Talks off<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hamas also confirmed it was abandoning efforts to negotiate a durable ceasefire with Israel.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It had gone to the talks in Cairo demanding an end to the Israeli and Egyptian blockades of Gaza, and the establishment of a seaport and airport.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Israel, for its part, had sought guarantees that Hamas and other factions in Gaza would be disarmed.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The UN Security Council voiced &#8220;grave concern&#8221; at the resumption of hostilities and &#8220;called upon the parties to resume negotiations to urgently reach a sustainable and lasting ceasefire&#8221;.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gaza officials say a total of 54 Palestinians have been killed since the temporary ceasefire broke down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source: <em><strong>BBC NEWS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Israeli air strike on a house in Gaza has killed three senior Hamas military commanders, militants say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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