{"id":51365,"date":"2020-02-25T08:27:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T13:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51365"},"modified":"2020-02-25T08:27:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T13:27:51","slug":"netanyahu-threatens-all-out-war-after-90-rockets-fired-from-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=51365","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu Threatens All-Out War After 90 Rockets Fired From Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/netanyahu-threatens-all-out-war-after-90-rockets-fired-gaza\">Netanyahu Threatens All-Out War After 90 Rockets Fired From Gaza<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monday witnessed significant escalation over Gaza as Palestinian Islamic Jihad sought to avenge the deaths of three commanders killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza and Damascus the day before.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israeli media\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/rocket-attack-targets-israeli-south-despite-reported-ceasefire\/\">counted<\/a>\u00a0<strong>some 90 total rockets fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip<\/strong>\u00a0throughout the day since the attacks began Sunday night, with the IDF claiming its Iron Dome defense system\u00a0had\u00a0intercepted the vast majority which came near populated areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/gazastrikes.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><em>Israeli airstrike on Gaza City on Monday, February 24, via AFP\/The Times of Israel.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had earlier threatened to initiate&nbsp;<strong>broader war if the rocket fire didn&#8217;t cease<\/strong>. Despite an Islamic Jihad spokesman announcing&nbsp;a unilateral cease-fire by the early evening, the rocket fire was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/rocket-attack-targets-israeli-south-despite-reported-ceasefire\/\">reported as continuing<\/a>&nbsp;later into the night Monday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are now hitting with planes, tanks, and helicopters,\u201d&nbsp;Netanyahu said while inspecting an Iron Dome unit in the south.&nbsp;<strong>\u201cI\u2019m talking about a war,\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;Netanyahu, who is entering a final&nbsp;week of campaigning&nbsp;before Israeli national&nbsp;elections,&nbsp;had further&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/rocket-attack-targets-israeli-south-despite-reported-ceasefire\/\">told Israel\u2019s Army Radio station<\/a>. \u201cI only go to war as a last option, but we have prepared something you can\u2019t even imagine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also appeared to threaten to kill the heads of Hamas and Islamic Jihad if the rockets continued,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/rocket-attack-targets-israeli-south-despite-reported-ceasefire\/\">saying<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>\u201cWe will continue to strike until the calm returns. If there isn\u2019t quiet, you\u2019ll be next.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some 30 rockets were initially fired out of the Gaza Strip on Sunday night, and it continued to escalate through Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netanyahu Threatens All-Out War After 90 Rockets Fired From Gaza Monday witnessed significant escalation over Gaza as Palestinian Islamic Jihad sought to avenge the deaths of three commanders killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza and Damascus the day before.&nbsp; Israeli media\u00a0counted\u00a0some 90 total rockets fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip\u00a0throughout the day since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1049,1048,4318],"class_list":["post-51365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-israel","tag-palestine","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51366,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51365\/revisions\/51366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}