Israel Gaza Crisis
Israeli troops monitor the Israel-Gaza border following an exchange of fire between Palestinian militants and Israeli troops on June 1, 2012. An Israeli soldier and a Palestinian militant were killed in the incident which the army statement said took place after the latter infiltrated into Israel and opened fire at soldiers posted in an exclusion zone just inside the Gaza border that is off-limits to Palestinians, where Israeli troops regularly carry out military activity in the area.
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Iran is here and we are fighting a daily war indirectly against Iran from Islamic Jihad in Gaza to Hezbollah in Lebanon ... Iran's influence in Syria is also felt. It is very concerned with the future of its ally Bashar Assad and is trying to help him directly and via Hezbollah.
Developing Gaza’s gas fields would break one important Israeli supply monopoly but they don’t want the Palestinians to develop energy self-reliance
despite Israel's restraint, it will not allow its officers and soldiers to be terrorized, for they acted completely justifiably and in accordance with international law, as was also determined by the UN's international investigatory committee into the Gaza flotilla.More quotes »
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