Hamas Threatens to Hit Tel Aviv in Response to Next Israeli Aggression

Rasa - The Zionist regime of Israel experienced yet another military defeat in the besieged city of Gaza this week.

News ID: 441591

Date: 18 November 2018 - 15:12

RNA - The Palestinian resistance group of Hamas has rightfully described the subsequent resignation of Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman as a "political victory for Gaza", amid threats to an uneasy ceasefire.

Palestinian group's spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri says Lieberman's resignation signals a "recognition of defeat and failure to confront the Palestinian resistance", adding that "Gaza's steadfastness sent a political shockwave" through Israel.

Lieberman resigned in protest over an Egypt-brokered ceasefire reached with Hamas in Gaza.

The truce, announced on Tuesday, was intended to end two days of failed Israeli aerial attacks on Gaza after a botched undercover Israeli operation inside the strip, to which Palestinian factions responded with successful rocket fire.

Lieberman had advocated for a more decisive blow against Hamas and quit in protest. But the usurper regime knows full well that it’s not going to happen.

This is not the first time that the Zionist regime has been forced to surrender to the Palestinian resistance and certainly it won’t be the last. The truce has severely harmed Israel’s so-called invincibility and there’s nothing the regime could possibly do to reverse that.

The situation is so similar to the 50-day conflict in 2014 in which at least 72 Israelis were killed during the Palestinian rocket fire and intense fighting. However, that does in no way mean that Israel will now call it a day. Quite the opposite, the occupying regime will try and find another excuse to attack Gaza, while prolonging the illegal blockade. This is not surprising, because Israel still has the backing of the United States and the diplomatic inaction at the United Nations.

As is, the United States government is in many ways deeply complicit in Israeli war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. This complicity comes mainly through military and financial aid, which is the part and parcel of their unholy alliance; corporations, as the military aid is also a boon to the Military-Industrial Complex; and diplomatic support, which enables Israeli attacks across occupied Palestine by shielding it in diplomatic forums, including at the UN Security Council.

Meaning, Israeli leaders and commanders will continue to commit war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity as defined in the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court. What's more, the US will continue to aid, abet and assist the commission of these crimes by providing Israel with the military means.

According to Fars News Agancy, Considering the above and reading the tea leaves, war crimes and genocide charges could and must be brought under the Genocide Convention against Israel. The convention also punishes complicity in genocide; Washington’s decision to provision more military aid constitutes complicity.

Although Israeli and US leaders continue to claim that Tel Aviv only acts in self defence, the weight of world opinion and legal cases points in the opposite direction. There is overwhelming opposition to Israeli blockade and military aggression in Gaza and calls for justice and accountability. Both Israeli and US leaders must be criminally prosecuted for committing, aiding and abetting these crimes. There is no other way to bring justice to Gaza.

In between, the international community must remedy its moral responsibility to the victims of Israeli war and occupation, by working to end Israel's occupation and other abuses of Palestinian rights, and by holding Israel to account for this week’s atrocity in Gaza.

Failure to do so will only embolden Israel to carry out yet more botched undercover operations into the besieged city, with deadly consequences for its long-suffering civilians.

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