8 KANAK-kanak di KALANGAN yang MATI sebagaimana Bom ISRAEL ke 160 tapak di GAZA . . .

Palestin membawa mayat ahli keluarga Kaware yang pegawai-pegawai hospital berkata terbunuh dalam serangan udara Israel ke atas rumah mereka, semasa pengebumian mereka di Khan Younis di selatan Semenanjung Gaza 9 Julai 2014 (Palestinians carry the bodies of members of the Kaware family that hospital officials said were killed in an Israeli air strike on their house, during their funeral in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip July 9, 2014 (Reuters)

Srikandi גבורה - Sekurang-kurangnya 8 kanak-kanak telah dibunuh dalam tempoh 24 jam sebagai Operasi Perlindungan Edge dilancarkan oleh tentera Israel memasuki hari yang ke-2. IDF mendakwa ia telah melanda sekurang-kurangnya 160 sasaran di Gaza sejak Selasa.

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"Semalaman, IDF mencecah kira-kira 160 sasaran di Semenanjung Gaza. Sejak 2 hari lepas, kami diserang sejumlah kira-kira 430 sasaran," Ketua Moti Almoz kepada radio tentera.

Menurut Almoz, sasaran termasuk 120 pelancar roket yang disembunyikan, perintah Hamas ke-10 dan kawalan pusat, 2 rumah dan banyak terowong.

Walaupun pihak berkuasa Israel mendakwa sasaran mereka hanya kpd militan Hamas, ramai orang awam yang terbunuh dlm "serangan darat," yang dikenali sebagai Operasi Perlindungan Edge.

Rasmi IAF berkata penduduk di bangunan sasaran oleh Tentera Udara Israel untuk menyerang cuba untuk mengelakkan serangan naik ke bumbung beramai-ramai. Helah itu tidak akan berkesan, katanya.

Sekurang-kurangnya 50 buah rumah telah musnah pada hari Selasa dan 1,700 rosak sebahagiannya, kata Menteri Palestin Kerja Raya dan Perumahan Mufeel al-Hasayneh.

8 CHILDREN Among DEAD as ISRAEL 

bombs 160 Sites in GAZA . . .

At least eight children have been killed in the last 24 hours as Operation Protective Edge launched by Israeli forces entered its second day. IDF claimed it has hit at least 160 targets in Gaza since Tuesday.

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"Overnight, the IDF hit about 160 targets in the Gaza Strip. Over the last two days we attacked a total of about 430 targets," General Moti Almoz told military radio.

According to Almoz, the targets included 120 concealed rocket launchers, 10 Hamas command and control centers, two homes and many tunnels.

Though Israeli authorities claim they target only Hamas militants, many civilians have been killed in a “ground offensive,” dubbed Operation Protective Edge.

The IAF official said that residents of the buildings targeted by Israeli Air Force for strikes tried to avert the attacks by going up the roofs en masse. Such ploys will not be effective, he added.

At least 50 houses were destroyed on Tuesday and 1,700 were partially damaged, said Palestinian Minister of Public Works and Housing Mufeel al-Hasayneh.

Orang-ramai membawa mayat seorang budak lelaki Palestin yang pegawai-pegawai hospital berkata terbunuh dalam serangan udara Israel ke atas rumah keluarganya, di bandar Gaza 9 Julai, 201 4 (People carry the body of a Palestinian boy whom hospital officials said was killed in an Israeli air strike on his family's house, in Gaza city July 9, 2014 (Reuters)

Laporan mangsa berbeza-beza. Medik Palestin memberitahu Al Arabiya bahawa 28 orang terbunuh dalam Operasi Perlindungan Edge, sambil menambah lebih 150 cedera dalam hari keganasan dahsyat di jalur pantai sejak 2012.

Jerusalem Post, dalam pada itu, dilaporkan hanya 27 orang terbunuh & lebih 100 telah cedera dalam serangan sejak awal Operasi Perlindungan Edge di Gaza.

Reports of casualties vary. Palestinian medics told Al Arabiya that 28 people were killed in Operation Protective Edge, adding that more than 150 were wounded in the deadliest day of violence in the coastal strip since 2012.

Jerusalem Post, in the meantime, reported only 27 people killed and over 100 have been injured in the assaults since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge in Gaza.

Pertahanan untuk Kanak2 Antarabangsa Palestin (DCI-Palestin) juga mengeluarkan data, dan berkata tentera Israel membunuh lapan kanak-kanak dan mencederakan berpuluh-puluh lagi.

Defense for Children International Palestine (DCI-Palestine) also released its data, saying Israeli military killed eight children and injured dozens more.

IDF@IDFSpokesperson

Pada masa lalu 24 jam, Hamas melepaskan tembakan roket di Tel Aviv, Jerusalem 

& bandar-bandar utama yang lain. M302 boleh menyerang kebanyakannya di Israel 

(In the past 24 hours, Hamas fired rockets at Tel Aviv, Jerusalem & other major 

cities. M302 can strike most of Israel)

3:47 PM - 9 Jul 2014

"Tentera Israel membunuh 6 kanak-kanak apabila peluru berpandu melanda rumah2 aktivis Hamas yg dinyatakan Odeh Ahmad Mohammad Kaware di bandar Gaza selatan Khan Younis," kata satu kenyataan dari organisasi. Secara keseluruhan, sekurang-kurangnya 28 kanak-kanak telah cedera dalam serangan di bandar Khan Younis.

Juga 2 kanak-kanak Palestin mati dalam serangan di seluruh Gaza: satu dari kejiranan Sheikh Radwan Gaza City, dan yang lain dari komuniti Al-Shujaiyah Gaza City.

Anak yang termuda terbunuh dalam serangan tersebut ialah berusia 6 thn.

“Israeli forces killed six children when a missile struck the home of alleged Hamas activist Odeh Ahmad Mohammad Kaware in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis,” said a statement from the organization. Overall, at least 28 children have been injured in the offensive in the city of Khan Younis.

Also two Palestinian children died in strikes across Gaza: one from Gaza City’s Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, and the other from Gaza City’s Al-Shujaiyah community.

The youngest child killed in the assault was 6.

Harry Fear @harryfear

Foto: #Gaza kanak2 cedera tiba di hospital Kamal Adwan semalam (Photo: injured #Gaza child arrives at the Kamal Adwan hospital yesterday (Nidal Alwahidi)

2:26 PM - 9 Jul 2014

"Kematian dan kecederaan kepada kanak-kanak yg disebabkan oleh serangan tentera Israel ke atas Gaza menunjukkan tidak mengambil kira serius dan meluas prinsip asas undang-undang antarabangsa," kata Rifat Kassis, pengarah eksekutif DCI-Palestin. "Tentera Israel tidak boleh menjalankan serangan udara berleluasa di kawasan padat penduduk yang gagal untuk membezakan antara sasaran tentera, orang awam dan objek awam."

Menurut RT Paula Slier, yang berada di kawasan itu, beberapa remaja terbunuh apabila Israel mensasarkan rumah yg dimiliki oleh militan Hamas. Dlm kemalangan bera-singan, orang awam terbunuh apabila tersekat oleh kereta IDF di mana perjalanan militan.

Roket Gaza melanda Yerusalem sebagai angka kematian Palestin sampai 25 Gaza rocket hits Jerusalem as Palestinian death toll reaches 25

“The death and injury to children caused by Israel’s military offensive on Gaza demonstrates serious and extensive disregard of fundamental principles of international law,” said Rifat Kassis, executive director of DCI-Palestine. “Israeli forces must not carry out indiscriminate airstrikes in densely populated areas that fail to distinguish between military targets, civilians and civilian objects.”

According to RT Paula Slier, who is in the area, several teenagers were killed when the Israelis targeted a house belonging to a Hamas militant. In a separate accident, civilians were killed when the IDF stuck a car in which militants were traveling.

Gaza rocket hits Jerusalem as Palestinian death toll reaches 25

GazaUnderAttack@Gaza_Samah

Ini hanya berlaku di #Gaza . . .  ini adalah di hadapan ‘mr’ sekarang! Tuhan bersama kita . . . #GazaUnderAttack (This is just happening in #Gaza . . . this is in front of mr right now!! God be with us  . . . #GazaUnderAttack)

2:25 PM - 9 Jul 2014

Antara mangsa seorang wanita berusia 80 thn terbunuh di kawasan Moghraqa, tengah Gaza. Seorang ayah dan anaknya terbunuh dalam pengeboman sebuah rumah di kem pelarian Nuseirat di tengah Gaza oleh pesawat IAF, menurut media Palestin.

Dalam pada itu, pegawai Israel ambil perhatian hanya 2 tentera yang cedera.

Among the victims is an 80-year-old woman killed in the Moghraqa area of central Gaza. A father and son were killed in the bombing of a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza by IAF aircraft, according to Palestinian media outlets.

In the meantime, Israeli officials note only two troops injured.

Palestin pengusung membawa anak remaja lelaki, yang pegawai-pegawai hospital berkata cedera dalam serangan Israel udara di rumah, di Bandar Gaza 9 Julai 2014 (Palestinians wheel a stretcher carrying a boy, who hospital officials said was wounded in an Israeli air strike on a house, in Gaza City July 9, 2014 (Reuters)

Tentera Israel berkata bahawa IDF akan terus menyerang tentera di Semenanjung Gaza.

"Kami akan meneruskan serangan yang tepat harga yang sangat berat dari Hamas. Kami memusnahkan senjata, infrastruktur keganasan, sistem arahan, institusi Hamas, bangunan rejim, rumah pengganas, & membunuh pengganas pelbagai arahan barisan," pertahanan Israel Menteri, Menteri Pertahanan Moshe Ya'alon, memberitahu Tentera Radio.

Beliau menambah bahawa pasukan Israel "akan terus menyerang Hamas & kumpulan pengganas lain di Semenanjung Gaza dari udara, laut dan darat untuk memastikan keselamatan rakyat Israel."

Menurut Ketua tentera Almoz "telah bersiap sedia akan datang. Serangan ini akan menjadi salah satu yang lama."

"Pasukan simpanan sedang dipanggil untuk menggantikan tentera dikerah [memegang garisnya]. Sebaik mereka bersedia, askar yang akan pergi ke selatan utk menyediakan, "katanya.

Harry Fear@harryfear

Graphic video: semalam/yesterday's #IDF serangan ke/strikes on #Gaza! - http://youtu.be/KDoSSm5FtU0

3:26 PM - 9 Jul 2014

Harry Fear@harryfear

50 buah rumah telah sebahagian atau keseluruhannya dimusnahkan sejak itu Israel melancarkan operasi, kata Kerajaan Hamas #Gaza: Media tempatan (50 homes have been partially or wholly destroyed since Israel's launched the operation, says #Gaza's Hamas govt: local media).

3:24 PM - 9 Jul 2014

The Israeli forces said that the IDF will continue military offensive in the Gaza Strip.

"We'll continue with strikes that will exact a very heavy price from Hamas. We are destroying arms, terror infrastructures, command systems, Hamas institutions, regime buildings, terrorists' houses, and killing terrorists of various ranks of command," Israeli defense minister, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, told Army Radio.

He added that Israeli troops "will continue to hit Hamas and other terror groups in Gaza Strip from the air, sea and ground to ensure the safety of Israel's citizens."

According to General Almoz the military "was preparing the next stage. This offensive will be a long one."

“Reservists are being called in to replace conscripted soldiers [holding the line]. The moment they are ready, the soldiers will go south to prepare," he said.

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BRITAIN menjual bahan KIMIA ke SYRIA yang DiGUNAKAN untuk membuat SARIN Gas - Dokumen FO . . .

Seorang gadis, yang terkesan oleh apa yang aktivis berkata adalah serangan gas, menerima rawatan di dalam hospital sementara di kampung Kfar Zeita di wilayah tengah Hama 22 Mei 2014 (A girl, affected by what activists say was a gas attack, receives treatment inside a makeshift hospital in Kfar Zeita village in the central province of Hama May 22, 2014 (Reuters/Badi Khlif)

Srikandi גבורה - Britain menjual bahan kimia Syria yg digunakan utk mengeluarkan sarin, gas saraf maut dikaitkan dengan beberapa serangan dahsyat melanda negara ini sepanjang kursus perang saudara selama 3 thn, Pejabat Luar mendedahkan dokumen bocor.

Baca lebih lanjut: UK dihantar bahan kimia Syria diperlukan untuk pengeluaran sarin 'selama 6 tahun' UK delivered Syria chemicals needed for sarin production ‘for 6 years’

Menteri-menteri bersedia utk mengesahkan pd Isnin bahawa firma-firma UK menjual bahan kimia ke Syria pada 1980-an, mengakui bahawa mereka yang memainkan peranan dalam program senjata kimia di negara ini.

Mereka juga akan mengatakan bahawa tidak ada peraturan-peraturan yang betul mengenai penjualan bahan kimia pada masa itu, tetapi itu kawalan yang lebih ketat wujud pada hari ini. Laporan itu mengatakan bahawa beratus-ratus tan bahan-bahan telah dijual kepada Damsyik.

Kenyataan itu datang selepas dokumen rasmi daripada Pejabat Luar telah dibocorkan kepada BBC Newsnight.

Sarin, gas saraf yang beratus-ratus kali lebih bahaya daripada sianida, dianggap salah satu yang paling berbahaya agen peperangan kimia di DUNIA. Ia berfungsi pada sistem saraf, lebih-merangsang otot dan organ-organ penting, dan setitik boleh membawa maut dalam beberapa minit.

BRITAIN Sold SYRIA Chemicals used to make 

SARIN Gas – FO DOCUMENT . . .

Britain sold Syria chemicals which were used to manufacture sarin, the lethal nerve gas linked to some of the deadliest attacks to hit the country throughout the course of the three-year civil war, a leaked Foreign Office document revealed.

Read more: UK delivered Syria chemicals needed for sarin production ‘for 6 years’

Ministers are set to confirm on Monday that UK firms sold the chemicals to Syria in the 1980s, admitting that they played a role in the country’s chemical weapons program.

They will also say that there were no proper regulations regarding the sale of chemicals at the time, but that tighter controls exist today. The report says that hundreds of tonnes of the ingredients were sold to Damascus.

The statement comes after official documents from the Foreign Office were leaked to BBC Newsnight.

Sarin, a nerve gas that is hundreds of times deadlier than cyanide, is considered one of the world’s most dangerous chemical warfare agents. It works on the nervous system, over-stimulating muscles and vital organs, and a single drop can be lethal in minutes.

Wanita2, terkesan oleh apa yang aktivis berkata adalah serangan gas, menerima rawatan di dalam hospital sementara di kampung Kfar Zeita di wilayah tengah Hama 22 Mei 2014 (Women, affected by what activists say was a gas attack, receive treatment inside a makeshift hospital in Kfar Zeita village in the central province of Hama May 22, 2014 (Reuters/Badi Khlif)

Oleh kerana turun naik itu, sarin telah diharamkan di bawah Konvensyen Senjata Kimia sejak tahun 1992.

Ini bukan kali pertama kerajaan UK telah datang di bawah tekanan untuk membekalkan Syria dengan bahan-bahan yang diperlukan untuk membangunkan senjata yang berbahaya.

Di antara tahun 2004 & 2010, kerajaan mengeluarkan lesen eksport kpd syarikat-syarikat British yg membolehkan mereka utk menjual natrium fluorida, satu komponen penting dalam sarin, ke Syria.

Due to its volatility, sarin has been banned under the Chemical Weapons Convention since 1992.

This is not the first time the UK government has come under pressure for supplying Syria with the materials needed to develop dangerous weapons.

Between 2004 and 2010, the government issued export licenses to British companies allowing them to sell sodium fluoride, a key component in sarin, to Syria.

Seorang wanita (dariKiri), yang terkesan oleh apa yang aktivis berkata adalah serangan gas, bernafas melalui topeng oksigen di dalam sebuah hospital di kampung Kfar Zeita di wilayah tengah Hama 19 Mei 2014 (A woman (L), affected by what activists say was a gas attack, breathes through an oxygen mask inside a hospital in Kfar Zeita village in the central province of Hama May 19, 2014 (Reuters/Badi Khlif)

Walaupun kerajaan mempertahankan keputusan untuk memberikan lesen eksport atas alasan bahawa mereka akan menggunakan untuk mengeluarkan kosmetik, ramai yang percaya bahawa bahan kimia yang telah digunakan sejak awal perang saudara Syria.

Satu laporan PBB pemeriksa senjata kimia menemui "bukti yg jelas & meyakinkan" bahawa roket mengandungi sarin dilepaskan di bandar Ghouta Ogos lalu dalam satu serangan yang dilaporkan membunuh sehingga 1,500 orang, termasuk 426 kanak-kanak.

Although the government defended its decision to grant the export licenses on the grounds that they would be used to manufacture cosmetics, many believe that the chemicals have been deployed since the beginning of Syria’s civil war.

A report by UN chemical weapons inspectors found “clear and convincing evidence” that rockets containing sarin were fired in the town of Ghouta last August in an attack that reportedly killed up to 1,500 people, including 426 children.

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ISRAEL Bersedia 'SERANGAN darat' atas Gaza, panggilan sehingga 40,000 Pasukan SIMPANAN . . .

Tentera Israel berdiri di atas kereta kebal Merkava dlm kawasan pengeluaran tentera berham-piran sempadan Israel dengan Semenanjung Gaza pada 8 Julai 2014 (Israeli soldiers stand on Merkava tanks in an army deployment area near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip on July 8, 2014 (AFP Photo/Jack Guez)

Srikandi גבורה - Tentera Israel sedang merangka pilihan untuk membasmi tembakan roket yang datang dari Gaza, "termasuk serangan darat," seorang pegawai tanpa nama Israel menyatakan pd hari Selasa. Bilangan tdk ditentukan tentera sedang dipanggil selepas kelulusan awal untuk 40,000.

Siren serangan udara berdering melalui Tel Aviv sebagai sistem anti-peluru berpandu 'Iron Dome' Israel meningkah roket dalam imej yang ditunjukkan di televisyen secara langsung, tidak lama selepas mobilisasi pasukan tentera itu.

Siren berbunyi untuk kali yg ke-2 hanya di bawah 3 jam kemudian sebagai 'Iron Dome' dipintas roket lain. Siren berbunyi di Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Israel dan bandar utara Binyamina.

ISRAEL Readies 'Ground Assault' on Gaza, 

CALLs Up 40,000 RESERVISTS . . .

Israel’s army is formulating options to eradicate rocket fire coming from Gaza, “including ground assault,” an anonymous Israeli official stated on Tuesday. An unspecified number of troops are being called up after preliminary approval for 40,000.

Air raid sirens rang through Tel Aviv as Israel’s 'Iron Dome' anti-missile system intercepted a rocket in images shown on live television, shortly after the troop mobilization.

The sirens rang out for a second time just under three hours later as the 'Iron Dome' intercepted another rocket. Sirens sounded in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, and the northern Israeli town of Binyamina.

Tentera rizab tlh digerakkan sebagai sandaran utk angkatan tetap pd menjangkakan satu peningkatan mungkin dalam konflik itu, jurucakap Leftenan-Kolonel Peter Lerner kepada Reuters.

1,500 Pasukan simpanan telah pun digerakkan oleh masa bahawa Israel meluluskan panggilan daripada 40,000 tambahan. Keselamatan kabinet Israel mengundi menyo-kong memanggil puluhan ribu kakitangan tambahan sebagai sebahagian daripada potensi "operasi darat."

The reserve soldiers were mobilized as backup for the regular forces in anticipation of a possible escalation in the conflict, spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner told Reuters.

Some 1,500 reservists had already been mobilized by the time that Israel approved the calling up of the extra 40,000. Israel’s security cabinet voted in favor of calling up the tens of thousands of extra personnel as part of a potential “ground operation.”

"Tentera sedang bersedia untuk sebarang kemungkinan, termasuk pencerobohan atau operasi darat," seorang pegawai tanpa nama kepada agensi AFP itu.

Menteri Pertahanan Israel Moshe Ya'alon berkata pada Selasa: "Kami sedang membuat persediaan bagi tindakan terhadap Hamas, yang tidak akan berakhir dalam tempoh beberapa hari," menurut RT ini Paula Slier dari Gaza kawasan Israel/sempadan. Lebih banyak dari 100 laman di Semenanjung Gaza yang diperintah Hamas telah melanda sepanjang hari.

Tidak akan ada percubaan serta-merta pada gencatan senjata, seorang pegawai Israel menyatakan. "Ia tidak akan berakhir dalam satu hari dan ia tidak akan berakhir dalam 2 hari. Ia akan mengambil masa, "Yitzhak Aharonovitch, menteri Kabinet negara bagi keselamatan dalam negeri, memberitahu Channel 2 TV.

"Jika kita perlu masuk ke dalam  operasi darat, maka kita akan melakukannya. Perkara-perkara ini di atas meja. Pilihan ini wujud. Kami tidak akan berhenti apa-apa sehingga menembak roket berakhir, "katanya, yang menyatakan bahawa pada masa ini tidak ada usaha dibuat untuk broker gencatan senjata.

Sekurang-kurangnya 15 rakyat Palestin, di antara mereka 3 kanak2, telah terbunuh dalam serangan, pegawai perubatan Palestin memberitahu AP. Hamas menyatakan tidak lama selepas mendapati bahawa sekurang-kurangnya 2 kanak-kanak telah dibunuh, bahawa "semua Israel" akan dianggap sasaran yang sah, menurut AFP.

Satu serangan yang khusus disasarkan serangan Israel ke atas sebuah rumah di Semenanjung Gaza, Kementerian Dalam Negeri Palestin melaporkan pada hari Selasa. Rumah tyang dipunyai oleh keluarga ahli Hamas, penduduk tempatan memberitahu Reuters, dan 6  maut dlm serangan itu, 2 daripadanya adalah kanak2 yg disebutkan di atas.

Tel Aviv Perbandaran sedang bersedia untuk membuka tempat perlindungan bom awam, dilaporkan Slier, dan penerbangan yang berlepas dan tiba di Lapangan Terbang Ben Gurion sedang dialihkan kerana kebimbangan mereka blh dilanda oleh tembakan roket, menurut Haaretz.

Perdana Menteri Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu mengarahkan tentera awal hari untuk "mengambil kira sarung tangan," dengan satu sumber mendakwa katanya kepada IDF untuk "yang pergi sepanjang jalan."

Menteri Interior Gideon Sa'ar memberitahu Ynet pada hari Selasa bahawa IDF perlu mengambil langkah-langkah yang lebih agresif di Semenanjung Gaza. "Israel perlu campur itu dan beroperasi dengan keganasan lebih terhadap Hamas . . . saya tidak akan menolak kemungkinan roket di Tel Aviv," dinyatakan Sa'ar.

Awal pada Selasa, Israel memulakan utama serang-balas ke atas Gaza, berikutan pelancaran lebih 85 roket di selatan Israel pada hari Isnin. IDF menganggap angka yang lebih tinggi lagi.

Al-Isra Modallal yang dari Kementerian Penerangan di Gaza memberitahu RT bahawa serangan merupakan satu "perang sebenar" terhadap Gaza, menyeru menamatkan "pengepungan" dan temed kelakuan Israel "haram dan tidak bermoral".

Peter Lerner dari Pasukan Pertahanan Israel bertanya RT: "Apakah alternatif Untuk membiarkan pengganas Hamas terus memakan atau pencerobohan mereka, roket2 ??"

"Ini adalah satu keadaan yang malang," katanya. "Israel tidak berniat, tidak berhasrat untuk pergi dan menyerang Gaza, tetapi Hamas meletakkan kita di sudut ini."

“The army is preparing for all possible scenarios, including an invasion or a ground operation,” an anonymous official told the AFP agency.

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon said on Tuesday: “We are preparing for action against Hamas, which will not end within a few days,” according to RT’s Paula Slier from the Israeli/Gaza border area. More than100 sites in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip were struck over the course of the day.

There will be no immediate attempts at cease-fire, an Israeli official stated. “It won't end in a day and it won't end in two days. It will take time,” Yitzhak Aharonovitch, the country's Cabinet minister for internal security, told Channel 2 TV.

“If we need to go inside in a ground operation, then we will do it. These things are on the table. These options exist. We will not stop anything until the rocket firing ends,” he said, stating that presently there were no efforts being made to broker a cease fire.

At least 15 Palestinians, among them three children, have been killed in the attacks, Palestinian medical officials told AP. Hamas stated shortly after discovering that at least two children had been killed, that "all Israelis" would be considered legitimate targets, according to AFP.

One specific assault targeted an Israeli assault on a house in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Interior Ministry reported on Tuesday. The home had belonged to the family of a Hamas member, local residents told Reuters, and six people died in the assault, two of which were the aforementioned children.

Tel Aviv Municipality is preparing to open public bomb shelters, reported Slier, and flights departing and arriving at Ben Gurion Airport are being diverted because of fears they could be hit by rocket fire, according to Haaretz.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the military earlier in the day to "take off the gloves," with one source claiming he told the IDF to "go all the way."

Interior Minister Gideon Sa'ar told Ynet on Tuesday that the IDF should take more aggressive measures in the Gaza Strip. "Israel need to step it up and operate with more ferocity against Hamas . . . I wouldn't rule out the possibility of rockets at Tel Aviv," Sa'ar stated.

Early on Tuesday, Israel began a major counter-offensive on Gaza, following the launch of over 85 rockets at southern Israel on Monday. The IDF deemed the figure to be higher.

Isra al-Modallal from the Ministry of Information in Gaza told RT that the strikes constituted a "real war" against Gaza, calling for an end to the "siege" and temed Israel's behavior "illegal and immoral".

Peter Lerner from the Israeli Defense Force asked RT: "What is the alternative? To just let Hamas terrorists continue their barrage or aggression, of rockets?"

"This is an unfortunate situation," he said. "Israel had no intention, no wish to go and attack Gaza, but Hamas put us in this corner."

Kereta kebal tentera Israel dilihat di luar pusat Gaza 8 Julai 2014 (Israeli army tanks are seen outside the central Gaza Strip July 8, 2014 (Reuters/Baz Ratner)

Sekurang-kurangnya 14 orang cedera sebagai Tentera Udara Israel ke serangan udara terhadap sasaran Hamas.

At least 14 people were injured as the Israeli Air Force carried out airstrikes against Hamas targets.

Operasi Perlindungan Edge telah dilancarkan di Gaza akui roket, Pasukan Pertahanan Israel berkata di Twitter.

Tentera udara Israel dan tentera laut mendarat hits pada 50 sasaran yang berbeza di seluruh Gaza.

Seorang pegawai lagi disahkan AFP pada hari Selasa bahawa tentera telah menerima arahan "untuk menyediakan alternatif tentera yang berbeza untuk bersedia sekiranya diperlukan."

Operation Protective Edge was launched in Gaza following rocket fire, the Israeli Defense Force said on Twitter.

The Israeli air force and navy landed hits on 50 separate targets across Gaza.

A further official confirmed to AFP on Tuesday that the army had received instructions “to prepare different military alternatives in order to be ready in case of need.”

Rusia, Amerika Syarikat, Perancis dan United Kingdom telah menyatakan rasa tidak senang semua atas peristiwa di Semenanjung Gaza. Moscow telah menyatakan bahawa "adalah dengan kebimbangan yg mendalam" yg terdapat melambung lagi di seluruh Gaza dan bahawa "penggunaan kekerasan terhadap penduduk awam di Gaza layak kutukan."

"Saya amat bimbang akan peningkatan baru-baru ini keganasan di Gaza dan selatan Israel. Saya mengecam menembak roket ke Israel oleh militan yang berpangkalan di Gaza," kata Setiausaha Luar UK William Hague dalam satu kenyataan yang diterbitkan oleh Pejabat Luar Negara dan Komanwel.

"Semua pihak mempunyai tanggungjawab utk menghormati sepenuhnya yg gencatan senjata November 2012 dan menangani punca konflik dan ketidakstabilan di Gaza," katanya.

Amerika Syarikat menyatakan bahawa ia "sangat-sangat" mengutuk serangan roket2 berterusan di dalam Israel dan "sasaran yang sengaja orang awam oleh pertubuhan-pertubuhan pengganas di Gaza," kata jurucakap White House Josh Earnest pada taklimat berita. "Kami menyokong hak Israel untuk mempertahankan dirinya daripada serangan ganas."

Perancis tlh menggesa semua pihak utk menunjukkan kawal diri, dengan jurucakap Kementerian Luar Romain Nadal menyatakan: "Kami mengesahkan penolakan kami sebarang bentuk keganasan," dilaporkan Reuters.

Russia, the US, France and the UK have all expressed unease over events in the Gaza Strip. Moscow has stated that "it is with deep concern" that there have been further escalations around Gaza and that the "use of force against the civilian population of Gaza deserves condemnation."

"I am deeply concerned by the recent escalation of violence in Gaza and southern Israel. I condemn the firing of rockets into Israel by Gaza-based militants," said the UK Foreign Secretary William Hague in a statement published by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

"All sides have a responsibility to respect in full the November 2012 ceasefire, and to address the underlying causes of conflict and instability in Gaza," he said.

The US stated that it "strongly" condemned continuing rocket fire inside of Israel and "the deliberate targeting of civilians by terrorist organizations in Gaza," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said at a news briefing. "We support Israel's right to defend itself against these vicious attacks."

France has urged all sides to show restraint, with Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal stating: "We reaffirm our rejection of any form of violence," reported Reuters.

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