Another sad day for Israel and Gaza

Personal Update (by Alan) from Tel Aviv, Israel:

(a) 2.30am
We (residents of Tel Aviv) were all woken by an air raid siren. I ran to the stairwell for refuge and met the half naked bleary eyed neighbours who joined me. A number of booms (I counted 12) shook the building. The kids cried and the parents tried not to.

(b) 10pm tonight.
People in the street pointed at the sky as iron dome missiles intercepted incoming Hamas missiles from Gaza. A minute later the sound reached us. BOOM! A young woman jumped in fright and grabbed me for security. Her friends ran over and held us all in a supporting hug.

(c) Midnight
The news reported that a few dozen Palestinian civilians in Gaza protested against Hamas. Hamas rounded up twenty of them and shot them on the spot. Reporters are hoping someone filmed it on their mobile phone. (http://bit.ly/1to3IDQ - for Hebrew speakers).

(d) Midnight
Report that more Hamas militants slipped across the border into Israel through pre-prepared concrete reinforced tunnels and killed Israelis.

Damn those tunnels - Hamas has built a whole underground city.
The tunnels symbolise Hamas corruption, its blind intent to destroy instead of build (the tunnels were built during 9 years using international donations funds intended to build a better Gaza), the murder and abduction of Israelis (by using the tunnels for hit and run attacks), deaths of Palestinian kids (http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/07/report-at-least-160-children-died-digging-hamas-tunnels.php). 

Damn those tunnels, the infrastructure for future terrorist attacks against Israel and the reason Israel is forced to stay in Gaza until they are destroyed or neutralised.

Another sad day in Israel and Gaza.