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| | Air raid sirens followed by booms in south Jerusalem [https://twitter.com/mandeljonah/status/1391771192391000067?s=20 11:04 AM · May 10, 2021]</ref> - May 21, 2021<ref>"[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/306559 Rocket barrage on the south, one person injured]. Gaza terrorists fire barrages before ceasefire begins. One rocket directly hits building in Eshkol Regional Council, injuring one person." Elad Benari, May 21, 2021 12:47 AM | updated: 2:07 AM. | | Air raid sirens followed by booms in south Jerusalem [https://twitter.com/mandeljonah/status/1391771192391000067?s=20 11:04 AM · May 10, 2021]</ref> - May 21, 2021<ref>"[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/306559 Rocket barrage on the south, one person injured]. Gaza terrorists fire barrages before ceasefire begins. One rocket directly hits building in Eshkol Regional Council, injuring one person." Elad Benari, May 21, 2021 12:47 AM | updated: 2:07 AM. |
| | A ceasefire aimed at bringing an end to the latest escalation in Gaza went into effect at 2:00 a.m. on Friday morning. At 12:30 a.m., an hour and a half before the ceasefire began, terrorists fired a barrage of rockets at communities located near the Gaza border.</ref><ref>Netanyahu: "We caused maximum damage to Hamas with a minimum of casualties to Israel". May 21, 2021 | | A ceasefire aimed at bringing an end to the latest escalation in Gaza went into effect at 2:00 a.m. on Friday morning. At 12:30 a.m., an hour and a half before the ceasefire began, terrorists fired a barrage of rockets at communities located near the Gaza border.</ref><ref>Netanyahu: "We caused maximum damage to Hamas with a minimum of casualties to Israel". May 21, 2021 |
| − | https://20il.co.il/?p=511090</ref><br/> (11 days) | + | https://20il.co.il/?p=511090</ref><ref>[https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/05/20/even-with-a-ceasefire-israel-and-hamas-will-not-stop-fighting-each-other Even with a ceasefire, Israel and Hamas will not stop fighting each other], Economist, May 20, 2021. [https://www.economist.com/taxonomy/term/17/0?page=119]. |
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| | + | ...By the end Hamas, a Palestinian militant group, had fired some 4,000 rockets at Israel. |
| | + | ... Hamas's policies make it more like a shooting range. The group sometimes shows little interest in actually governing. Its schools and hospitals can be used for storing weapons. The idea is that Israel won't attack such sites or, if it does, Hamas can use it for propaganda. The militants were surprised by how hard Israel hit back after they launched their first barrage on May 10th. Still, even as the death toll mounted, they did not stop.</i></ref> |
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| | In a conversation with Ynet, Diamant said: "When they honked behind me and gave gas, I realized that they were looking for violence and wanted to just fall on Jews. They were about to get on me with the car. I got on the sidewalk with the scooter and I stopped. They gave brakes. Then Arabs began coming out from all the doors. I said to myself, 'What am I doing now?' I was thinking of trying to fight back and defend myself. " | | In a conversation with Ynet, Diamant said: "When they honked behind me and gave gas, I realized that they were looking for violence and wanted to just fall on Jews. They were about to get on me with the car. I got on the sidewalk with the scooter and I stopped. They gave brakes. Then Arabs began coming out from all the doors. I said to myself, 'What am I doing now?' I was thinking of trying to fight back and defend myself. " |
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| − | "I told them 'I'm just a courier and a worker, what do you want?'" Diamant added. "They kept cursing and beating me. I did not hit them back and did not curse. I hoped they would move on. They were looking for me to push them, as so to trample me."</i></ref> often with Jihadi genocidal cries of "Itbakh al Yahud" and burning houses of worship. It was after a trend of racist random attacks by Arabs against Jews, randomly, which already preceded the bombardment by Hamas. On May 16, [[Fatah]]'s Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades pushed to ramp it up even further.<ref>Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades Calls For General Mobilization In West Bank, Instructs Fighters To Make Life 'An Unbearable Hell' For Israelis. May 17, 2021. On May 16, 2021, The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the West Bank, the military wing of the Palestinian Fatah movement, issued a statement instructing its fighters to answer its call for general mobilization, known as "Al-Nafir," to defend Jerusalem, the 1948 territories, and the Gaza Strip, which it said are under intense Israeli bombardmen | + | "I told them 'I'm just a courier and a worker, what do you want?'" Diamant added. "They kept cursing and beating me. I did not hit them back and did not curse. I hoped they would move on. They were looking for me to push them, as so to trample me."</i></ref><ref>[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rktwmuzgk Israeli Arab indicted on terror charges over May domestic riots] Lior El-Chai, Ynet, Sep 5, 2021. |
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| | + | Hassan Idd from Acre is charged with setting fire to the Efendi Hotel during violence in mixed cities, triggered by clashes on Temple Mount and cross border fighting with Hamas; prosecution claims crime was racially motivated, targeting a Jewish business</i></ref> often with Jihadi genocidal cries of "Itbakh al Yahud" and burning houses of worship. It was after a trend of racist random attacks by Arabs against Jews, randomly, which already preceded the bombardment by Hamas. On May 16, [[Fatah]]'s Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades pushed to ramp it up even further.<ref>Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades Calls For General Mobilization In West Bank, Instructs Fighters To Make Life 'An Unbearable Hell' For Israelis. May 17, 2021. On May 16, 2021, The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in the West Bank, the military wing of the Palestinian Fatah movement, issued a statement instructing its fighters to answer its call for general mobilization, known as "Al-Nafir," to defend Jerusalem, the 1948 territories, and the Gaza Strip, which it said are under intense Israeli bombardmen |
| | https://www.memri.org/reports/fatahs-al-aqsa-martyrs-brigades-calls-general-mobilization-west-bank-instructs-fighters-make</ref><ref>[https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/HJTJA9X900 The neighbor pointed and shouted - "this is the Yahud's (Jew's) van" : 240 vehicles were set on fire during riots] Gilad Cohen, Ynet, June 1, 2021. | | https://www.memri.org/reports/fatahs-al-aqsa-martyrs-brigades-calls-general-mobilization-west-bank-instructs-fighters-make</ref><ref>[https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/HJTJA9X900 The neighbor pointed and shouted - "this is the Yahud's (Jew's) van" : 240 vehicles were set on fire during riots] Gilad Cohen, Ynet, June 1, 2021. |
| | ''According to data obtained by Ynet, about 240 vehicles were set on fire in riots throughout Israel that accompanied the operation in Gaza, and Lod suffered the hardest blow. Michal, a resident of the city and a mother of four, photographed from the broken shutter her Arab neighbors lighting and breaking her cars: "The world has turned upside down for us, we waited for the morning to come and for the nightmare to end." ...There was a demonstration of men, women and children. This demonstration turned into a situation where people with T-shirts on their faces and igniting everything that moved and the clearest cries of 'Itbakh al-Yahud' and 'With Blood and Fire we will Redeem Palestine.' "This is not an easy neighborhood, but everything was criminal. We do not understand where this nationalist demon came from."... I hear one of the neighbors calling the neighbors and calling the youth to come. I hear my neighbor we talk and sales. Shouts and points 'This is the Jew's van'.</ref> Asides from physically attacking Jews, ''Muslim Rioters in Israel Burn 10 Synagogues, 112 Jewish Homes.''<ref>[https://unitedwithisrael.org/muslim-rioters-in-israel-burn-10-synagogues-112-jewish-homes/ Muslim Rioters in Israel Burn 10 Synagogues, 112 Jewish Homes]. UWI, May 21, 2021. ''Twenty-eight mosques were exposed as weapons caches. Similarly, 22 Muslim prayer houses were documented as being used to incite riots against Jews.''</ref> Local Islamic leaders incited.<ref name=inn-may14/><ref name=ishay-may20/><ref>In mid-May, prominant Arab businessman linked with politician incited to violence. Two months later it was revealed he was actually a spy for Iran:<br> | | ''According to data obtained by Ynet, about 240 vehicles were set on fire in riots throughout Israel that accompanied the operation in Gaza, and Lod suffered the hardest blow. Michal, a resident of the city and a mother of four, photographed from the broken shutter her Arab neighbors lighting and breaking her cars: "The world has turned upside down for us, we waited for the morning to come and for the nightmare to end." ...There was a demonstration of men, women and children. This demonstration turned into a situation where people with T-shirts on their faces and igniting everything that moved and the clearest cries of 'Itbakh al-Yahud' and 'With Blood and Fire we will Redeem Palestine.' "This is not an easy neighborhood, but everything was criminal. We do not understand where this nationalist demon came from."... I hear one of the neighbors calling the neighbors and calling the youth to come. I hear my neighbor we talk and sales. Shouts and points 'This is the Jew's van'.</ref> Asides from physically attacking Jews, ''Muslim Rioters in Israel Burn 10 Synagogues, 112 Jewish Homes.''<ref>[https://unitedwithisrael.org/muslim-rioters-in-israel-burn-10-synagogues-112-jewish-homes/ Muslim Rioters in Israel Burn 10 Synagogues, 112 Jewish Homes]. UWI, May 21, 2021. ''Twenty-eight mosques were exposed as weapons caches. Similarly, 22 Muslim prayer houses were documented as being used to incite riots against Jews.''</ref> Local Islamic leaders incited.<ref name=inn-may14/><ref name=ishay-may20/><ref>In mid-May, prominant Arab businessman linked with politician incited to violence. Two months later it was revealed he was actually a spy for Iran:<br> |