Shots at the border, fighter jets and tanks to bomb numerous targets in the Gaza strip: The conflict between Israel and Hamas is dangerous to escalate. The fear of a fourth war is growing.
Israel and the Gaza strip’s ruling Hamas could be on the threshold of a new war inhabitants: reports of several serious explosions in the city of Gaza. Israel’s air force attacked a Hamas military Outpost, confirmed the army. At the border it came to violent riots. Now the talk is of several dead. In Israeli media it’s called the escalation of the “worst incident since the Gaza war of 2014”. However, the Situation has worsened in recent days and weeks.
“The people are concerned. As a few days ago, was violently bombarded, the market was immediately empty. The people are home,” says Nidal al-Harazeen, the seller in the old market of Gaza city. “Who has a little money in the pocket, not there at the Moment, you know what’s coming.” No one wants to see a war because of dragons, and inflated condoms with fire records.
“Israel and Egypt have locked us in,” says the young man. “It feels like a balloon from all further inflated until it explodes at some point.” Since the escalation from last weekend, the mood in Gaza is even more serious than usual. In the Falafel Shop across the street. “People are afraid of a new war. But the despair is so great, that some even think maybe it needs a war for that to change this miserable Situation,” says Riyad al Zebda, wants to see anything other than a new conflict.
Fragile ceasefire, fuelling fear of a new war
A new war between Hamas and Israel is not excluded since the last weekend: For weeks, the Palestinians self-made kites or Helium-filled condoms and balloons, to which incendiary slopes, rising in the Wake of the Friday demonstrations. This set of fields and forests in Israel on fire. The damage to property is high, no people were harm in doing so yet.
A place of devastation
The Israeli army attacks in turn, the military Posts of the Hamas in the Gaza strip and fires in addition to the so-called “Kite-terrorist Squads”. However, the army chief refuses to kill the dragon flyers in a targeted manner – as by some Israeli politicians.
Last weekend, the Situation within a few hours: Hamas and other militant groups escalated shelled with rockets and mortars fields and places around the Gaza strip, Israel’s army of air attacks flew – the most serious since the war in 2014. Were killed on Sunday two Palestinian youths in Gaza city. Egypt and the United Nations to mediate a ceasefire, but which is considered to be fragile and has already broken several times.
“The dragons are no nuclear weapons”
The public pressure on the government of Israel has grown steadily to find an answer to the so-called “terror dragon”. Hamas must also stop the dragon flying, or a larger military operation to the threat. “We are already in the midst of a military campaign. The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) is prepared for all scenarios,” warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu again on a visit in the South of Israel this week.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened a military operation
“Israel is trying to make the threat of the dragon larger than you. The dragons are no nuclear weapons. It is a pretext to bomb Gaza,” on the other hand says Ghazi Hamad, a Hamas politician in Gaza city. “We are trying to an escalation, to avoid a war. But also the international community should exert pressure on Israel to stop its military Aggression against the people in Gaza.” From political circles, it is said that the various political groups had agreed in Gaza with the help of Egyptian mediation, the dragon fly and to the curb.
Israel supply a limit more
On Monday, Israel’s Premier Netanyahu had increased the pressure on Gaza with new measures to tighten up on the many years of Blockade: Palestinian fishermen are allowed to re-driving only three instead of six nautical miles into the Mediterranean sea out. The goods supply through Kerem Shalom, the only Goods crossing between Israel and the Gaza strip has been further restricted. Food and medicine are not affected, but it is delivered out of fuel – at least until Sunday. Even if there is now fuel from Egypt, the demand for Diesel and gasoline for generators to compensate for the lack of electricity in the Gaza strip.
Yishai Cohen (left) and Rami Gold (right), from Kibbutz Beeri are on the road every day to extinguish fires in the fields.
In the kibbutz of Nahal Oz, only about a Kilometer of air line from Gaza city, but worlds apart, looks Evyatar Hanan often on his cell phone. He has organized with a group of other volunteers to help in the event of fire, together with the local fire Department. “In the beginning there was Chaos, but now we are better organized,” says the young Israeli who lives for three years in Nahal Oz.
“There are hardly ten to 15 seconds”
In the distance, behind the border fence, to see the houses of Gaza city. In between, the fields of the kibbutz, and another security fence around the site. “Last weekend was really bad. We have spent a lot of time in the shelter,” says Hanan. Because the place is so close to Gaza, remain barely ten to 15 seconds before a rocket or mortar shell to strike.
Almost every few meters there is a brightly painted mobile concrete bunkers, each house has a safe room and the school walls several meters high concrete reinforced. “It feels a little like front of the Zuk Eitan (Protective Edge) four years ago.You don’t know what is to come,” says Hanan, and thinks of the war between Israel and Gaza/Hamas in the summer of 2014.
Placements with the help of international
Both Egypt and the United Nations to act as a mediator to calm the Situation. The United Nations special envoy, Nickolay Mladenov, announced that they are working on a Plan for Gaza to improve the humanitarian Situation. However, it all needs to be done to avoid a fourth war.
In Gaza, one can only wait and see. “The Situation is every day more difficult, we hope that the world is watching here, but since I have little hope. Our governments care for themselves, too, we are but no matter,” said Sabreen Al Ayoube, which is to go grocery shopping. And the concern remains, the wrong Tactics of both sides, or individual could lead to incidents in the border area to a larger confrontation. “With this uncertainty you have to live here,” says another Passer-by. “A war may come at any time, without warning.”