Israel

Israel may reoccupy parts of Gaza Strip: Barak

The Israeli regime says it may reoccupy some parts of the besieged Gaza Strip in the future.

Press TV,

8 September, 2012

Israeli Minister for Military Affairs Ehud Barak made the announcement at a meeting of the Fisher Institute on "Operation Cast Lead" on Friday.

Israeli forces have carried out large numbers of ground and air attacks on Gaza since the end of Operation Cast Lead against the enclave in 2009.

More than 1,400 Palestinians were killed during the three-week Israeli land, sea and air offensive in the impoverished coastal sliver during the winter of 2008-2009. The offensive also inflicted $1.6 billion in damages to the Gazan economy.

On Thursday, three Palestinians were killed when an Israeli tank fired a Flechette shell in the northern town of Beit Hanoun.

Three other Palestinians were also killed and another wounded in an Israeli airstrike on central Gaza on Wednesday.

The Israeli regime conducts airstrikes and ground attacks against the Palestinian territory on an almost regular basis.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says Israel launched over 58 air and ground assaults on the Gaza Strip in June, which killed over a dozen Palestinians and injured many others.

The Israeli military frequently bombs the Gaza Strip, saying the actions are being conducted for defensive purposes. However, disproportionate force is always used, in violation of international law, and civilians are often killed or injured.

Gaza has been blockaded since 2007, which is a situation that has caused a decline in the standard of living, unprecedented levels of unemployment, and unrelenting poverty.

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RT

Hundreds of Israeli families are refusing to leave the largest city in the West Bank, using the hypothetical threat of an attack by Iran as a reason to stay. But their critics say that's a feeble excuse to illegally stay on land that doesn't belong to them.