Israel Gaza attack- Concise Version of Wikipedia article
When 'Alon' from Israel visited Hyde Park in Chicago many moons ago, I got to know him. He was a gentle, relaxed guy. I even visited him amidst the laid-back decor of the apartment he was living in. But he did not know that I was a closet-Christian (of an unfundie type).
When I felt I had to brush up on the latest stone-age (as in Barney Rubble) 'creative anachronisms' (some females never get over the sense of superiority obtained from reaching puberty before male and hence resort to such phrases) in the middle east, I knew the first thing to do was to check the Wikipedia entry on it: Operation Protective Edge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. As usual the article was intimidatingly and verbose, cluttered with: unnecessary transitions between paragraphs, even a mania for unnecessary transitions between sentences; unnecessary phrases and words. I felt fatigued and stressed just looking at it. I decided to produce a minimally edited condensed version (see further down) of the Wikipedia article. The number of words in my version is only 19% of the words in the Wikipedia original.
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My Condensed Version of Operation Protective Edge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Operation Protective Edge... launched on 8 July 2014...
During the search for...three...teenagers in June 2014, Israeli forces killed ten Palestinians and...(captured) 500 members of Hamas...By 7 July, 100 rockets were fired...at Israeli territory... Israel hit 50 targets in the Gaza Strip,[18] and by 8 July...militants in Gaza had fired...140 rockets within 24 hours... as far north as Hadera, beyond Tel Aviv. Israel's counter-rocket defense system...intercepted... 30...rockets...Israel commenced the...military response on 8 July...Hamas declared that "all Israelis" had become "legitimate targets"...July 8, Hamas offered ceasefire (terms):...end all attacks on Gaza, release those re-arrested...in the West Bank, lift the blockade on Gaza and return to the cease-fire conditions of 2012...On 14 July, Egypt proposed a cease-fire... Israeli government accepted...Hamas...rejected it...(Israel)says Hamas was using... 'human shields';[26]...denied by Hamas.[27]...as of 13 July...1,300 Israeli attacks have occurred, while...800 missiles were fired...into Israel.[28]...
Background
On 23 April 2014, Hamas agreed to a reconciliation deal with the...Palestinian faction, Fatah...Israel announced it would not negotiate...with the new government and...punitive measures...Brigadier General Moti Almoz, the chief spokesman of the Israeli military, said: “We have been instructed...to hit Hamas hard.”[40]...the two men Israel suspects of having kidnapped the teenagers were known members of Hamas...Hamas...congratulated the abductors.[46] Israeli forces killed ten Palestinians... and arrested several hundred more... in the... search for the...teenagers and suppression of Hamas...dubbed Operation Brother's Keeper...... On 30 June, search teams found the bodies of the...missing teenagers...after the funeral of the three...a...Palestinian ...was ...burned alive...by Jewish extremists...(this) led to...rioting in East Jerusalem...(and) Arab villages...[55] and an apology...from... Netanyahu...Israel argues that this attack...is also in reaction to hundreds of rockets and mortar shell launched by Gaza residents ... into Israel during...2012-2014...
Operation Timeline
8 July
IDF...targeted ...the home of senior Hamas member Abdul Rahman Juda, who was using his home as a control...center... Palestinians have confirmed that all homes were called by the IDF prior to bombing, asking residents to please leave.[68]....five armed Palestinians attempted to cross into Israel...resulting in the death of all five...Hamas openly claimed responsibility for rocket fire... a rocket hit Hadera, 28 miles ...north of Tel Aviv, making it the longest range rocket ever shot into Israel...(this) was a Syrian made M302 Rocket...(Israel) had struck 435 targets in Gaza, resulting in the death of at least 23 Palestinians...225 rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel and 40...were intercepted... Property damage in Israel totaled ...10 million NIS ($2.9 million):...35 vehicles, 52 buildings, 12 agriculture-related damages...[84]
9 July
IDF:..they had struck...31 tunnels, 60 rocket launching sites, 27 terror sites...11 activity sites... two rockets landed...in Caesarea...(they) were fired at Haifa....Islamic Jihad...Commander...killed in IAF strike on his house...Hamas sent...rockets toward Dimona...they admitted they were attempting to hit the nuclear reactors...Magen David Adom:.. 68 (Israeli) injuries; 59 from shock and nine while running for shelter.[100]...
10 July
...rockets...fired at Tel Aviv, Dimona...in Israel 234 missiles had exploded and 61 rockets had been hit by...Iron Dome... Israel announced that their goal is... to fully dismantle Hamas's infrastructure...
11 July
... missile defense...shot down a rocket over Haifa, the first time a rocket from Gaza reached that far...
12 July
IDF strike targeting Gaza police chief Tayseer Al-Batsah's home killed 21...Hamas convened a news conference to deliver a message that at 21:00 they were about to fire J80 missiles into Central Israel that will challenge the Iron Dome...Iron Dome...intercepted ...three...rockets...the rest fell in open areas. ...Israeli...
13 July
...Israeli...commandos approached Gaza... resulting in three Palestinian deaths and four IDF soldiers injured.[146] (this)...took out...long-range rocket launchers...those living in Gaza with dual citizenship were given a chance to be escorted by the IDF...to their... embassies... a 30 minute window was given...causing many...to ...remain in Gaza.[149]... number...who left their home was reported at 17,000... 25% of the town's 70,000 residence.[154]...
14 July
IDF:..MIM-104 Patriot missile to down a (Gazan) drone,...IDF stated...3,000 of the 9,000 rockets in Gaza had been destroyed...
15 July
Netanyahu...fired Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon...for claiming that Hamas "humiliated" Israel ... an Israeli man... injured by a mortar shell...became the first Israeli death...
16 July
Israel...sent pre-recorded messages to...100,000[183] people in Gaza City to leave their homes by 8am...Hamas and the PIJ proposed a ten year truce...terms ...included:
IDF moving their tanks further into Israel from Gaza,
Re-release all prisoners freed in exchange for Gilad Shalit and arrested during Operation Brother's Keeper,
Remove blockage from all borders with the Rafah crossings on UN control,
Establish an airport in Gaza under UN control,
Expand fishing zone to 13 km,
Israel borders with Gaza controlled by the UN,
Israel cannot intervene in the Palestinian unity government, and
Israel must give Gaza residents permission to visit Jerusalem and pray in the Al-Aqsa Mosque...
17 July
Israel agreed to a five-hour...ceasefire... five...hours prior to the ceasefire...IDF sighted 13...Hamas militants emerging from a Gazan tunnel on the Israeli side of the Gaza border...the militants... sustained casualties...(Israel) destroyed the tunnel's exit...3pm, at the end of the...five hour ceasefire, sirens began ringing again in Israel...IDF artillery ...fired hundreds of shells to the northern Gaza strip after ordering ...civilians out...PIJ reported ...that IDF...troops have entered Gaza.... Netanyahu...announced...an...incursion into Gaza.[201] Egypt: Hamas responsible for Israel's ground operation, due to them not accepting theceasefire....Netanyahu:...task is to disable the tunnels...used by Hamas....Israel claims they gave the hospital multiple advance warnings to evacuate ...before attacking a weapons storage facility at the hospital...
18 July
...IDF destroyed the house of PIJ leader Abdullah al-Shami...one Israeli soldier was killed during the 11-day operation...14 militants were killed...13 militants gave themselves up to the IDF...
19 July
nine Palestinians entered Israel via a tunnel, wearing IDF uniforms, carrying weapons, handcuffs, syringes, and sedatives...resulting in the death of all nine...and two IDF soldiers....94 rockets were fired...at Israel, 36 of them shot down
Impact
...prices of food,...have dramatically risen...
Casualties and Losses
318 Palestinians have been killed...76% of those killed were civilians...38 members of armed groups and 12 persons of unknown status (killed). 44 ...were children and 29 women.[11] 1,920 ...wounded ...45% of those injured are women and children...25,000 children...traumatized...81 schools....23 medical facilities...damaged...3,000 homes...partially destroyed by the air strikes... as of 15 July 2014, 72 terrorist operatives, 80 civilians, and 41 unidentified Palestinians have been killed in Gaza.[225]... 9 people killed while watching the World Cup in a cafe...Seven... were killed when they climbed on the roof of their house to act as a human shield...their home was still struck...Human rights groups:...targeting the homes of militia members violates international...law...Rocket and missile attacks from Gaza have...(damaged) Israeli... factories, gas stations, and homes... (Israeli) injuries:...1 seriously, 21 moderately...101 from shock...
Cost
Israel...estimated...operation cost forecasted to... 2.5 billion USD...similar to Operation Cast Lead in 2009 and higher than Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012...if the operation lasts 20 days, the loss in GDP will be 0.4%.[235]
Reactions
...An open letter to BBC director signed by 45,000 people including Noam Chomsky, John Pilger:..."like to remind the BBC that Gaza is under Israeli occupation and siege [and] that Israel is bombing a refugee population"...A photo... shows Israelis...on top of a hill to celebrate ...as they watched...airstrikes...People...brought chairs, sofas, popcorn, and hookahs...[250] The scene was ..."something resembling a party".[251] ...Palestinians in Hebron cheered as Gazan rockets were fired....[252]
When I felt I had to brush up on the latest stone-age (as in Barney Rubble) 'creative anachronisms' (some females never get over the sense of superiority obtained from reaching puberty before male and hence resort to such phrases) in the middle east, I knew the first thing to do was to check the Wikipedia entry on it: Operation Protective Edge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. As usual the article was intimidatingly and verbose, cluttered with: unnecessary transitions between paragraphs, even a mania for unnecessary transitions between sentences; unnecessary phrases and words. I felt fatigued and stressed just looking at it. I decided to produce a minimally edited condensed version (see further down) of the Wikipedia article. The number of words in my version is only 19% of the words in the Wikipedia original.
Stats for my condensed version ('See Also', 'References', and 'External Links' not included):
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My Condensed Version of Operation Protective Edge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Operation Protective Edge... launched on 8 July 2014...
During the search for...three...teenagers in June 2014, Israeli forces killed ten Palestinians and...(captured) 500 members of Hamas...By 7 July, 100 rockets were fired...at Israeli territory... Israel hit 50 targets in the Gaza Strip,[18] and by 8 July...militants in Gaza had fired...140 rockets within 24 hours... as far north as Hadera, beyond Tel Aviv. Israel's counter-rocket defense system...intercepted... 30...rockets...Israel commenced the...military response on 8 July...Hamas declared that "all Israelis" had become "legitimate targets"...July 8, Hamas offered ceasefire (terms):...end all attacks on Gaza, release those re-arrested...in the West Bank, lift the blockade on Gaza and return to the cease-fire conditions of 2012...On 14 July, Egypt proposed a cease-fire... Israeli government accepted...Hamas...rejected it...(Israel)says Hamas was using... 'human shields';[26]...denied by Hamas.[27]...as of 13 July...1,300 Israeli attacks have occurred, while...800 missiles were fired...into Israel.[28]...
Background
On 23 April 2014, Hamas agreed to a reconciliation deal with the...Palestinian faction, Fatah...Israel announced it would not negotiate...with the new government and...punitive measures...Brigadier General Moti Almoz, the chief spokesman of the Israeli military, said: “We have been instructed...to hit Hamas hard.”[40]...the two men Israel suspects of having kidnapped the teenagers were known members of Hamas...Hamas...congratulated the abductors.[46] Israeli forces killed ten Palestinians... and arrested several hundred more... in the... search for the...teenagers and suppression of Hamas...dubbed Operation Brother's Keeper...... On 30 June, search teams found the bodies of the...missing teenagers...after the funeral of the three...a...Palestinian ...was ...burned alive...by Jewish extremists...(this) led to...rioting in East Jerusalem...(and) Arab villages...[55] and an apology...from... Netanyahu...Israel argues that this attack...is also in reaction to hundreds of rockets and mortar shell launched by Gaza residents ... into Israel during...2012-2014...
Operation Timeline
8 July
IDF...targeted ...the home of senior Hamas member Abdul Rahman Juda, who was using his home as a control...center... Palestinians have confirmed that all homes were called by the IDF prior to bombing, asking residents to please leave.[68]....five armed Palestinians attempted to cross into Israel...resulting in the death of all five...Hamas openly claimed responsibility for rocket fire... a rocket hit Hadera, 28 miles ...north of Tel Aviv, making it the longest range rocket ever shot into Israel...(this) was a Syrian made M302 Rocket...(Israel) had struck 435 targets in Gaza, resulting in the death of at least 23 Palestinians...225 rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel and 40...were intercepted... Property damage in Israel totaled ...10 million NIS ($2.9 million):...35 vehicles, 52 buildings, 12 agriculture-related damages...[84]
9 July
IDF:..they had struck...31 tunnels, 60 rocket launching sites, 27 terror sites...11 activity sites... two rockets landed...in Caesarea...(they) were fired at Haifa....Islamic Jihad...Commander...killed in IAF strike on his house...Hamas sent...rockets toward Dimona...they admitted they were attempting to hit the nuclear reactors...Magen David Adom:.. 68 (Israeli) injuries; 59 from shock and nine while running for shelter.[100]...
10 July
...rockets...fired at Tel Aviv, Dimona...in Israel 234 missiles had exploded and 61 rockets had been hit by...Iron Dome... Israel announced that their goal is... to fully dismantle Hamas's infrastructure...
11 July
... missile defense...shot down a rocket over Haifa, the first time a rocket from Gaza reached that far...
12 July
IDF strike targeting Gaza police chief Tayseer Al-Batsah's home killed 21...Hamas convened a news conference to deliver a message that at 21:00 they were about to fire J80 missiles into Central Israel that will challenge the Iron Dome...Iron Dome...intercepted ...three...rockets...the rest fell in open areas. ...Israeli...
13 July
...Israeli...commandos approached Gaza... resulting in three Palestinian deaths and four IDF soldiers injured.[146] (this)...took out...long-range rocket launchers...those living in Gaza with dual citizenship were given a chance to be escorted by the IDF...to their... embassies... a 30 minute window was given...causing many...to ...remain in Gaza.[149]... number...who left their home was reported at 17,000... 25% of the town's 70,000 residence.[154]...
14 July
IDF:..MIM-104 Patriot missile to down a (Gazan) drone,...IDF stated...3,000 of the 9,000 rockets in Gaza had been destroyed...
15 July
Netanyahu...fired Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon...for claiming that Hamas "humiliated" Israel ... an Israeli man... injured by a mortar shell...became the first Israeli death...
16 July
Israel...sent pre-recorded messages to...100,000[183] people in Gaza City to leave their homes by 8am...Hamas and the PIJ proposed a ten year truce...terms ...included:
IDF moving their tanks further into Israel from Gaza,
Re-release all prisoners freed in exchange for Gilad Shalit and arrested during Operation Brother's Keeper,
Remove blockage from all borders with the Rafah crossings on UN control,
Establish an airport in Gaza under UN control,
Expand fishing zone to 13 km,
Israel borders with Gaza controlled by the UN,
Israel cannot intervene in the Palestinian unity government, and
Israel must give Gaza residents permission to visit Jerusalem and pray in the Al-Aqsa Mosque...
17 July
Israel agreed to a five-hour...ceasefire... five...hours prior to the ceasefire...IDF sighted 13...Hamas militants emerging from a Gazan tunnel on the Israeli side of the Gaza border...the militants... sustained casualties...(Israel) destroyed the tunnel's exit...3pm, at the end of the...five hour ceasefire, sirens began ringing again in Israel...IDF artillery ...fired hundreds of shells to the northern Gaza strip after ordering ...civilians out...PIJ reported ...that IDF...troops have entered Gaza.... Netanyahu...announced...an...incursion into Gaza.[201] Egypt: Hamas responsible for Israel's ground operation, due to them not accepting theceasefire....Netanyahu:...task is to disable the tunnels...used by Hamas....Israel claims they gave the hospital multiple advance warnings to evacuate ...before attacking a weapons storage facility at the hospital...
18 July
...IDF destroyed the house of PIJ leader Abdullah al-Shami...one Israeli soldier was killed during the 11-day operation...14 militants were killed...13 militants gave themselves up to the IDF...
19 July
nine Palestinians entered Israel via a tunnel, wearing IDF uniforms, carrying weapons, handcuffs, syringes, and sedatives...resulting in the death of all nine...and two IDF soldiers....94 rockets were fired...at Israel, 36 of them shot down
Impact
...prices of food,...have dramatically risen...
Casualties and Losses
318 Palestinians have been killed...76% of those killed were civilians...38 members of armed groups and 12 persons of unknown status (killed). 44 ...were children and 29 women.[11] 1,920 ...wounded ...45% of those injured are women and children...25,000 children...traumatized...81 schools....23 medical facilities...damaged...3,000 homes...partially destroyed by the air strikes... as of 15 July 2014, 72 terrorist operatives, 80 civilians, and 41 unidentified Palestinians have been killed in Gaza.[225]... 9 people killed while watching the World Cup in a cafe...Seven... were killed when they climbed on the roof of their house to act as a human shield...their home was still struck...Human rights groups:...targeting the homes of militia members violates international...law...Rocket and missile attacks from Gaza have...(damaged) Israeli... factories, gas stations, and homes... (Israeli) injuries:...1 seriously, 21 moderately...101 from shock...
Cost
Israel...estimated...operation cost forecasted to... 2.5 billion USD...similar to Operation Cast Lead in 2009 and higher than Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012...if the operation lasts 20 days, the loss in GDP will be 0.4%.[235]
Reactions
...An open letter to BBC director signed by 45,000 people including Noam Chomsky, John Pilger:..."like to remind the BBC that Gaza is under Israeli occupation and siege [and] that Israel is bombing a refugee population"...A photo... shows Israelis...on top of a hill to celebrate ...as they watched...airstrikes...People...brought chairs, sofas, popcorn, and hookahs...[250] The scene was ..."something resembling a party".[251] ...Palestinians in Hebron cheered as Gazan rockets were fired....[252]
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