Gaza has erupted again. "While Hamas fires rockets into Israeli cities, Israel targets Hamas assets inside Gaza," BBC. "More than 40 people were killed in the latest Israeli air strikes on Gaza, officials there say. Israel's army say Palestinian militants have fired more than 3,000 rockets at Israel over the past week," BBC. "Israel withdrew its troops and Jewish settlements from Gaza in 2005, after a second far more violent intifada. The following year, Hamas won a landslide victory in Palestine elections. That triggered a power struggle with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party, culminating in a week of clashes in 2007 that left Hamas in control," India Today. After a telephone warning to the watchman, Israel bombed a building, it says, had intelligence and military offices of Hamas. "First, small missiles struck the block in Gaza City's Rimal district, then boom, the building crumbled, footage showed," US News. "Israel's army makes a call, tells residents to evacuate, tap-tap-tap go the small missiles as a final warning -- and then a big one brings the building down." For four years during President Donald Trump's tenure there was peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors, despite Trump recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in 2018 and moving the US Embassy to the city. Not only was there peace, but at least four Arab countries, starting with the UAE, signed peace agreements with Israel in, what is known as, the Abraham Accords. Whether this is part of President Joe Biden's vindictive reversal of all of Trump's policies we don't know, but it is already costing lot of innocent lives on both sides. In fact, Biden's party, the Democrats want him to blame Israel for the violence, CNN. "Muslim rights groups had hailed Biden in the first days of his presidency for ending the Trump administration's ban on travel from predominantly Muslim countries." Israel has just over 9 million population of which 21% are Arabs, while Arab nations have a total population of over 400 million. "Twenty-seven days before the first rocket was fired from Gaza this week, a squad of Israeli police officers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, brushed the Palestinians attendants aside and strode across its vast limestone courtyard. Then they cut the cables to the loudspeakers that broadcast prayers to the faithful from four medieval minarets," wrote Biden supporter New York Times. AP, another Biden supporter, was "shocked and horrified" when a building housing its offices was demolished by the Israeli military. "We have had no indication Hamas was in the building or active in the building," AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt said in a statement. Hamas is not going to hang a signboard advertising its presence, is it? Especially since Hamas has been on the US list of terrorist organisations since 1997. "Early Friday, just after midnight, the Israeli military put out an ominous statement to the media: 'IDF air and ground troops are currently attacking the Gaza strip'," US News. Israel started amassing troops along the border and started firing artillery shells at targets across the border. "The Israeli moves sent Hamas fighters rushing into defensive positions in an underground network of tunnels known as 'the Metro'," after which, "Israel called in 160 warplanes and bombarded the tunnels for 40 minutes, the military said." Scores of terrorists died. Biden is seen as a weak president and Chinese government adviser Zheng Yongnian warned that he may start a war to divert attention from domestic problems. Harassment of US vessels in the Persian Gulf by Iranian ships had stopped since 2018 but in April Iranians boats maneuvered near US ships for four hours," Fox. Having lied about Trump's relations with Russia Biden is in a dilemma about India buying Russian S400 missiles, which we have every right to do. Winning a controversial election was easy. The world is complicated.
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