Collective Punishment

That's a big catch.

The Israel military offensive on Gaza took more than 100 lives overnight, as the IDF is searching for a missing soldier [Hadar Goldin] Hamas, blamed by Israel for kidnapping the soldier, denies the allegation. Some reports say he may have been killed by friendly fire.

  RT

If Hamas does have the soldier, it’s not a kidnapping. It’s a capture.

Of the 107 Palestinians killed in Gaza overnight, 35 died in the town of Rafah as Israel carried out air raids from midnight onward, according to AFP. Dozens were also killed in southern Gaza a few hours after the ceasefire began.

Yeah, apparently “ceasefire” has a new meaning.

Israel’s Justice Minister Tzipi Livini said Hamas had kidnapped Goldin and promised the group would pay a high price.

The group? The entire town of Rafah, you mean.

Hamas’s military wing, the al-Qassam brigade, said the Israeli soldier may have been killed by Israeli shelling as the IDF targeted Hamas positions in southern Gaza.

"The Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades have no information on this soldier. We have lost contact with one of our combatant groups, which was fighting in the sector where the soldier went missing and it is possible that our fighters and this soldier were killed," they said in a statement.

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Elsewhere in the West Bank the IDF fired smoke grenades at a Palestinian protest rally. Witnesses say this later turned to gunfire, killing two Palestinians and injuring 70 others.

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Meanwhile, an unnamed Israeli official told Reuters that Israel won’t send envoys to Gaza ceasefire negotiations planned in Egypt on Saturday.

Hell no. A little bit longer, and they’ll have wiped out the whole of Palestine.

Protective Edge has become Israeli’s bloodiest operation against Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip in recent years, with the Palestinian death toll now topping 1,550 - more than the 2008 operation. The IDF has lost more than 60 troops in the conflict.