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Hamas Starts Yet Another War With Israel

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A partial mirror of the post from Gates of Vienna. For the whole article please click through.

Our Israeli correspondent MC sent us this message from Sderot:

It looks bad here. Reserves are being called up and roads have been closed in the area.

The missile to the Sharon last night was a huge escalation. It was homemade and had a large warhead — with a GRAD type range. It looks as if Hamas has reverse engineered something with a range up to 100km.

Local events are being cancelled, and Hamas is talking up a provocation, but at the same time claiming that the missile was a ‘mistake’. That will be the second of such mistakes in the last few weeks — a missile was intercepted just South of Tel Aviv about a month ago.

There are even claims that the ‘mistake’ was caused by the weather:

Hamas: Rocket Launch May Have Been Caused by ‘Bad Weather’

A Hamas official denied Israel’s accusation that it was behind Monday’s rocket strike on a town in central Israel, north of Tel Aviv, Monday morning which wounded seven Israelis and led Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to vow a strong response.

“No one from the resistance movements, including Hamas, has an interest in firing rockets from the Gaza Strip towards the enemy,” the official told AFP on condition of anonymity, evoking the possibility that it may have been caused by “bad weather”…

 

The fake ‘mistake’ means that Hamas can claim that Israel is the aggressor and that any response is ‘disproportionate.

For the rest…

 

 

Israel launches counter-strike on Gaza

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PRO-HEZBOLLAH AND IRAN REGIME MEDIA CELEBRATE ROCKETS OVER TEL AVIV

Pro-Hezbollah and pro-Iran regime media and social media accounts lit up on Thursday night, after two rockets were fred at Tel Aviv from Gaza. It indicates the close attention paid to tensions in Israel between Israel and terrorist groups in Gaza.

Lebanon’s satellite TV station Al-Mayadeen, which is generally supportive of the Syrian regime and Hezbollah, wrote a story within minutes of the reports of Iron Dome being activated. “Occupation admits that Palestinians bomb ‘Tel Aviv,’” the headline read. Relying on Israel’s Channel 12, the article noted that booms were heard in central Israel and that bomb shelters might be opened.

 

Similarly, Tasnim News Agency in Iran wrote up the article noting that Iron Dome had intercepted the rockets. Shehab News, which is supportive of Hamas, posted video and news on the rocket fire. Hezbollah’s Al-Manar also reported the rocket fire. Hossein Dalirian, director of defense coverage for Tansim News, tweeted that two Fajr-5 rockets were fired at Tel Aviv. It wasn’t clear why he specified the Fajr-5, which was developed by Iran and supplied to Islamic Jihad in Gaza. This rocket was used in 2012 to strike at Tel Aviv and has a range of at least 75 km. Hamas also used them in 2012. Dalirian noted that this was the first time a rocket had been fired over Tel Aviv in five years.

Israel and Iran trade threats:

 

Pakistan parades captured Indian pilot (UPDATES on India Pakistan conflict)

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Daily Mail has good updates on the escalation of India-Pakistan conflict over Kashmir.

Pakistan suspends commercial flights, domestic and international over conflict region.

Thanks to all who are keeping us abreast of the events in the comments.

 

BREAKING: Indian jets BOMB targets in Pakistan – Pakistani airforce SCRAMBLES in response

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From The Express:

INDIAN warplanes have bombed suspected militant camps inside Pakistan, following a suicide attack which killed at least 40 paramilitary soldiers last week, according to the country’s military.

The Pakistani airforce scrabbled its own jets in response.

The attack took place over the line of control, which separates the Indian and Pakistani controlled sections of Kashmir.

 

On Twitter Indian Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat commented: “Air Force carried out aerial strike early morning today at terror camps and completely destroyed it.”

 

There are no reports thus far of any casualties.

Pakistan’s military said Indian military aircraft had crossed into its territory in the disputed Kashmir region and “released a payload”.

 

Twelve Mirage 2000 warplanes dropped 1,000kg bombs on militant training camps according to sources speaking to The Times of India.

Pakistan plans retaliation’

Thank you Wrath of Khan

 

The Hot War between Russia and Ukraine that somehow, no one knows about

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Satellite imagery shows hundreds of Russian tanks near the border with Ukraine

Satellite imagery from Google Earth taken on November shows hundreds of Russian main battle tanks at a new military base on the outskirts of the Kamensk-Shakhtinsky.

 

The large-scale military base only 18 kilometers away from the border with toward rebel-held territory in eastern Ukraine.

 

Images show hundreds of main battle tank like as T-64 and also T-62M, while a thousand military trucks, artillery systems and tankers are located slightly higher.

Russia has been ramping up its forces near the border with Ukraine since August and now poses the greatest military threat since 2014, the year Moscow annexed Crimea, the commander of Ukraine’s armed forces told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday.

Thank you Brad Johnson for taking time away from your schedule while in Georgia to discuss this situation with us.

 

Russia ‘fires at Ukraine ships’ in Black Sea after rising tensions off Crimea

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The Ukrainian president calls for emergency session of his war cabinet after accusing Russia of capturing three of its ships.

Ukraine says Russia has opened fire on its ships in the Black Sea and captured three vessels.

Two sailors have been wounded after two small armoured artillery boats were hit in the strikes, the Ukrainian navy said.

 

A statement from Ukraine’s ambassador to the UK said Russian special forces had captured three ships in an “act of aggression”.

UPDATE: Russian claim Ukraine violated its territorial waters

The skies over Israel right now

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