{"id":37981,"date":"2018-11-12T11:36:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T17:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=37981"},"modified":"2018-11-12T11:36:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T17:36:47","slug":"israel-kills-hamas-commander-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=37981","title":{"rendered":"Israel Kills Hamas Commander in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back my friends to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-46174912\">the war that never ends<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Seven Palestinians, including a local militant commander, have been killed during a covert Israeli operation in Gaza, Palestinian officials say.<\/p>\n<p>An Israeli soldier was also killed and another wounded, the Israeli military said, after a firefight erupted.<\/p>\n<p>Palestinians said an Israeli unit travelling in a civilian vehicle had killed the Hamas commander.<\/p>\n<p>It was followed by rocket-fire into Israel, while on Monday a Palestinian mortar hit an Israeli bus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The bus in question:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is the Israeli bus that was hit by a rocket from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Gaza?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Gaza<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fAbRaykolX\">pic.twitter.com\/fAbRaykolX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Israel Defense Forces (@IDFSpokesperson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IDFSpokesperson\/status\/1062014012098002944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Initial reports say the vehicle was empty, although a 19-year-old was seriously hurt, Israel&#8217;s ambulance service said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Palestinian sources, the Israeli unit was about 3km (2 miles) inside the Gaza Strip, which borders Israel, when it fired at Nur Barakeh, a commander of the Izzedine al-Qassam brigades, Hamas&#8217; military wing.<\/p>\n<p>The incident is reported to have happened east of Khan Younis, in the south of the territory.<\/p>\n<p>A gun battle erupted and Israeli tanks and aircraft opened fire in the area, witnesses said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have struck 20+ Hamas &amp; Palestinian Islamic Jihad targets throughout Gaza, including: <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd34Terror compounds<br \/>\ud83d\udd34Observation posts<br \/>\ud83d\udd34Rocket launching squad<br \/>\ud83d\udd34Additional terror targets<\/p>\n<p>Terrorists in Gaza target Israeli civilians. We target terror.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Israel Defense Forces (@IDFSpokesperson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IDFSpokesperson\/status\/1062028206100959233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hamas did its usual &#8220;launching terrorist rockets at civilians&#8221; thing. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">RAW FOOTAGE: The skies of southern Israel RIGHT NOW. Dozens of rockets are being fired from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Gaza?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Gaza<\/a> at Israeli civilians. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Iu6QwzUo8l\">pic.twitter.com\/Iu6QwzUo8l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Israel Defense Forces (@IDFSpokesperson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IDFSpokesperson\/status\/1062003855779655680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So Hamas is attacking civilians, and Israel is hitting terrorist targets in response.<\/p>\n<p>You know what the situation would be like right now if President Donald Trump hadn&#8217;t moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem?<\/p>\n<p>Hamas would be attacking civilians, and Israel would be hitting terrorist targets in response.<\/p>\n<p>It can&#8217;t be said too often: The &#8220;Middle East Peace Process&#8221; is all process and no peace. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back my friends to the war that never ends: Seven Palestinians, including a local militant commander, have been killed during a covert Israeli operation in Gaza, Palestinian officials say. An Israeli soldier was also killed and another wounded, the Israeli military said, after a firefight erupted. Palestinians said an Israeli unit travelling in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":18,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,31,194],"tags":[2870,389,73,1515,72,2867,2874],"class_list":["post-37981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-jihad","category-military","tag-foreign-policy","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-idf","tag-israel","tag-jihad","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37981"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37988,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37981\/revisions\/37988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}