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The Guardian:

At least 15 killed in Israeli air strikes on Gaza
Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 15 people in an escalation of the worst clashes with Palestinian militants so far this year.

The strikes began on Friday, when Israeli air raids killed the senior militant leader Zohair al-Qaisi, the secretary general of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC). Israel claimed he was targeted because he was planning an attack.

All the dead are terrorists, or “militants” in the whitewashed MSM term.

CNN:

Israel airstrikes target Gaza, killing at least 14

Buried at the very end of the CNN story, a quote from a woman who obviously isn’t even reading the news:

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton urged both sides to “avoid further escalation” and “re-establish calm.”

“I very much deplore the loss of civilian life,” she said in a Saturday statement.

Terrorists. If civilians had been killed, they’d have led with that first. Because it’s always an awful thing when Palestinian civilians are killed, though when Israeli civilians die, the media assure us that it’s “the cycle of violence”–usually initiated by Israel.

The AP, helpfully explaining how it’s all Israel’s fault:

The flare-up began midmorning Friday, when an Israeli airstrike tore apart al-Qaissi’s blue sedan and killed his son-in-law, Mahmoud Hanini, also a PRC commander. Another low-ranking Gaza militant also died.

Some of the militants subsequently killed in Israeli strikes were planning to fire rockets, said Palestinian militant spokespeople. Other militants were targeted, but it wasn’t immediately clear why.

The military said al-Qaissi was plotting an infiltration attack into Israel similar to the raid from Egypt’s Sinai peninsula that they claim he orchestrated in August, which killed eight Israelis and injured 40 more.

And here’s a very curious description of why Israel bombs smuggling tunnels:

The PRC is responsible for dozens of deadly attacks against Israelis and its members frequently fire rockets into Israel.

Israel often targets Gaza militants it says are preparing attacks, but tensions have been relatively calm in recent months with Israel mostly targeting smuggling tunnels from Egypt.

Note how, even though the first paragraph describes rocket attacks, the second one makes it seem like Israel just randomly decides to fire on the tunnels–not that they do it in response to the regular rocket attacks by groups like the PRC. Also note that the AP has utterly ignored the rocket attacks until now–which is par for the course. Suddenly, the number of rocket attacks matter.

So far, militants have fired 92 rockets. The military said its air defense systems intercepted some 25 rockets before they landed.

In comparison, Palestinian militants fired some 50 rockets toward Israel in the three months preceding the flare up, a military spokesman said. He spoke anonymously in line with military regulations.

Now that they can use the number of rocket attacks to make Israel look bad, not the Palestinian terrorists, the AP notes that terrorists have fired twice as many rockets in the last few hours as it has in the last three months. The good news is that Iron Dome has knocked down 27 of 30 rockets aimed at Israeli cities. That’s gotta be pissing off the terrorists, big-time. I sure hope they have a few more Iron Dome batteries handy if they strike Iran. Oh, wait. Israel is getting more.

The IDF took out some major terrorists, including some that were released in the prisoner swap for Gilad Shalit. The result?

Southern Israel under heavy fire: Four people were wounded after a rocket exploded in southern Israel’s Eshkol region Friday night.

One victim was said to be in serious condition; a second man suffered moderate wounds and two other men were lightly wounded.

Earlier, the Iron Dome anti-rocket defense system shot down at least two Grad rockets fired at the southern Israel communities of Ashdod and Gan Yavne, as Gaza terrorists continued to pound southern Israel Friday night.

And why the barrage?

The latest round of fighting in the Gaza region began Friday afternoon, after the IDF targeted a vehicle traveling in Gaza City, killing Popular Resistance Committees’ Secretary General Zuhir al-Qaisi and another senior group figure recently freed in the Gilad Shalit swap.

The army said al-Qaisi was in final stages of planning a major terror attack at Israeli targets on the Egypt border.

The AP, of course, blames Israel. Note the cause-and-effect:

An Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Friday killed the commander of the militant group behind the abduction of Gilad Schalit, an Israeli soldier who was held captive for more than five years and freed in a prisoner swap for more than 1,000 Palestinians.

The midday attack marked the highest profile Israeli strike against the coastal strip in several months and immediately sparked retaliatory rocket attacks toward Israel — raising the specter of a violent escalation after a period of relative calm.

Just the narrative. It’s Israel’s fault. Terrorists about to attack Israel getting killed? Well, that might cause the terrorists to attack Israel. It’s lose-lose all the time in Israeli Double Standard Time.