Gaza, Hamas kills a soldier and Israel bombs the Strip: four dead

New tension in Gaza Strip, with Israel and Hamas at a step from a new military confrontation. The situation worsened when Hamas snipers stationed in a group of protesters ambushed an Israeli border patrol, killing a soldier. Immediate reaction of Israel: four Palestinians were killed and 120 others wounded. UN: "Stop yourself before falling into the abyss."

Clash in focus – The afternoon of tension begins Palestinians report that there is had a shootout between the army of the Jewish state and Hamas in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. As we read, some snipers fired on Israeli troops, who were attacking a Hamas station in the center of the band. He lost his life in the hospital and was an Israeli soldier. The army said that the army had been hit by a "terrorist cell" along the border. It is the first Israeli killed since the Palestinian protests on the border with the Jewish state on March 30 to denounce the blockade around the enclave.

Botta e risposta – The planes and tanks of Tel Aviv bombed "military targets across the Gaza Strip". The action, in which at least four Palestinians and 120 others lost their lives, left in response to shots fired at Israeli soldiers during "violent riots along the security fence" marking the border between Israel and Israel. the band. The news of the fourth victim, Mohammed Badwan, at the eastern border of Gaza City, was reported after Hamas declared that three of its members had been killed in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. And that does not stop there, because three rockets were launched towards Israel: two of them were intercepted.

The UN: "Stop before the chasm" – The climate, in short, is heavy. And in fact, the UN's special envoy for the Middle East, Nickolay Mladenov, urged Israel and Hamas to "move away from the edge of the precipice". "Everyone in the Gaza Strip needs to get away from the precipice, not next week, not tomorrow, immediately," he wrote on Twitter. "Those who want to provoke a war between Palestinians and Israelis – he added – must not succeed."

Israel: "We will react much harder than Hamas thinks" – it is the warning of the Israeli Minister of Defense, Avigdor Lieberman. "If Hamas continues its rocket launch – writes in a statement – Israel will react much more than it thinks." In short, the winds of war in the Gaza Strip are blowing again.