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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