Israel Kills Gaza Toddler in ‘Retaliatory’ Air Strike
Netanyahu: Our Policy Is to Act Forcefully
Israeli warplanes pounded the Gaza Strip in a series of attacked dubbed “retaliatory” for the death of an Israeli Defense Ministry employee shot along the border fence.
The strikes don’t appear to have been aimed at anything in particular, but Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said they would be painful, and indeed they were, with one killing a three-year-old girl.
An Israeli military spokesman said the strikes were “accurate” to their targets and that the planes returned safely. They didn’t address that the only confirmed death was a toddler killed in front of her home, in a strike that also wounded her mother and brother.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu likewise didn’t address the casualties directly, insisting only that he attack was in keeping with government policy to respond “forcefully.”
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RickR30
December 24th, 2013 at 9:34 pm
israel's yearly Christmas gift to the world.
wiseman
December 24th, 2013 at 10:53 pm
If the Israeli government had received intelligence that another Jesus was born today, he would have been the target.
Werner
December 24th, 2013 at 11:31 pm
Ebenezer Scrooge would love living in Israel. He would fit in perfectly.
Empire Slayer
December 24th, 2013 at 11:49 pm
Except they give enough of these "presents" for every day of the year and more.
Andron
December 25th, 2013 at 1:52 am
Murderers
What else can be said of this brutal Isreali raids
Augustbrhm
December 25th, 2013 at 2:05 am
And its benefactor remains mum with the war crimes it commits.
Augustbrhm
December 25th, 2013 at 2:05 am
And its benefactor remains mum with the war crimes it commits.
Scott Lazarowitz
December 25th, 2013 at 2:28 am
They remind me of the hysterical Boston cops who raided the entire town of Watertown (including shooting up the entire neighborhood) because the "terrorist" had shot a cop, and the hysterical L.A. cops who went after Christopher Dorner (with the cops shooting at innocent people in their cars that slightly resembled Dorner's car) because Dorner shot cops.
Scott Lazarowitz
December 25th, 2013 at 2:28 am
They remind me of the hysterical Boston cops who raided the entire town of Watertown (including shooting up the entire neighborhood) because the "terrorist" had shot a cop, and the hysterical L.A. cops who went after Christopher Dorner (with the cops shooting at innocent people in their cars that slightly resembled Dorner's car) because Dorner shot cops.
Ira Epstein
December 25th, 2013 at 3:55 am
The Israel firsters in congress, if they take notice of thisexample of Israeli baby kiling at all, will defend the baby killers based on Israel's right to self defense, and dismiss the toddler's murder as colateral damage.
Ira Epstein
December 25th, 2013 at 3:55 am
The Israel firsters in congress, if they take notice of thisexample of Israeli baby kiling at all, will defend the baby killers based on Israel's right to self defense, and dismiss the toddler's murder as colateral damage.
curmudgeonvt
December 25th, 2013 at 7:38 am
You won't hear squat from those tools.
tadzio308
December 25th, 2013 at 9:49 am
Big brave Israel, despite American technology and weaponry got its butt kicked in 1973 and was bailed out. Bullying Israel got booted out of Lebanon. Israel's third rate fighters are lucky to be facing fifth rate armies. Without American weaponry they would be a sixth rate fighting force. To put it crudely even the ragheads could beat the boastful ex rag pickers from the shtetlach of Eastern Europe. But to keep their tough guy image they kill a little girl. It makes a great 'selfie' for Netanyahu standing before his bathroom mirror. Admire those flab abs, Bibi.
tadzio308
December 25th, 2013 at 9:49 am
Changing the subject for your cousins, troll.
Roger Lafontaine
December 25th, 2013 at 10:20 am
Israel is the sword. America is the shield. America's role may be passive but it is crucial.
boatops
December 25th, 2013 at 11:33 am
Yesterday this story had 14 comments, why have they been removed, all were negative toward Israel
Israel is NOT our friend! Remember the USS Liberty!!
boatops
December 25th, 2013 at 11:33 am
Yesterday this story had 14 comments, why have they been removed, all were negative toward Israel
Israel is NOT our friend! Remember the USS Liberty!!
Thomas L. Knapp
December 25th, 2013 at 4:40 pm
To the best of my knowledge, there has never been a comment removed from Antiwar.com for being "negative toward Israel." Commenters can be "negative toward Israel" all they want. But the Stormfront anti-Jew stuff isn't welcome here.