Thursday, July 31, 2014

Gaza crisis: Israel calls up reservists as it maintains offensive - live coverage


  • Killing of sleeping children at school is a disgrace - UN

  • IDF calls up 16,000 more reservists

  • Military says it struck 110 terror sites in past 24 hours

  • US confirms it has restocked Israels ammunition

  • More than 140 rockets fired from Gaza in past 24 hours - IDF


8.21am BST


In the New York Times, David Kirkpatrick writes that, in a break from the past, Arab nations have effectively lined up with Israel in its fight against Hamas.


Aaron David Miller, a scholar at the Wilson Centre in Washington and a former Middle East negotiator under several presidents, told the NYT:


The Arab states loathing and fear of political Islam is so strong that it outweighs their allergy to Binyamin Netanyahu. I have never seen a situation like it, where you have so many Arab states acquiescing in the death and destruction in Gaza and the pummelling of Hamas. The silence is deafening.


7.56am BST


We struck 110 terror sites in Gaza in the past 24 hours, including 5 command centers.


The United States is committed to the security of Israel, and it is vital to US national interests to assist Israel to develop and maintain a strong and ready self-defense capability.This defense sale is consistent with those objectives.


Gaza terrorists fired more than 140 rockets at Israel over the past 24 hours. That's almost 1 rocket every 10 minutes.








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