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Day 6 – Hamas Knocks Out Gaza Power, South Under Attack, Anti-Israel Protests Turn Ugly

by TheTower.org Staff |

Day 6 of Operation Protective Edge is over.

A Hamas rocket knocked out power to 70,000 Gaza residents. The Times of Israel reports:

A rocket fired from Gaza damaged power lines in Israel that resulted in the loss of power to 70,000 Palestinians in the coastal strip.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Infrastructure Minister Silvan Shalom instructed the Israel Electric Company not to endanger its employees by repairing the lines from Sunday night’s outage while the threat of rocket attacks from Gaza remains. The lines were knocked down at Kissufim, near the Gaza border.

There was unrest in Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Post reports that ten rioters were arrested on the Temple Mount in an incident that injured two police officers.

A few hours later, a knife-wielding Arab man was detained by police at a light rail station near Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda Market after attempting to stab an officer during questioning.

The unidentified man raised the police’s suspicion as he exited the light rail station adjacent to the market. Seconds after being questioned by an officer, the suspect lunged at him with a large utility knife.

The Jerusalem light rail just resumed operations following rioting that damaged sections in the Shuafat neighborhood.

Sunday evening, a barrage of rockets headed towards southern Israel.

Disturbing displays of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel hate were on display as pro-Palestinian activists protested Operation Protective Edge in France …

in Germany …

in Boston …

and New York.

Today the Tower had posts on the rockets launched from Gaza that hit in or near the Palestinian cities of Bethlehem, Ramallah and Hebron. In addition, the post notes also that “[v]irtually all of Israel’s 1.5 million Arabs now face the threat of rockets.”

Another post focused on an analysis by Haviv Rettig Gur that was published in the Times of Israel Friday. The analysis observed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “less prone to military action than any prime minister in Israel’s history.”

Fatah, the political party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, has produced a video hailing the role of Palestinian women as “not merely the man’s partner in domestic life, but his companion wherever he is; on the battlefield, she is at his side on the frontline, and fulfills an active role in training generations of resistance [fighters], who will confront the ‘invincible’ army.” The video references terrorists Dalal Mugrabi, Hanadi Jaradat and Reem Riyashi.

Secretary of State John Kerry will reportedly demand of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that Iran “cease and desist” from arming Hamas, as Kerry attempts to bridge the gaps between the West and Iran ahead of next Sunday’s deadline for a nuclear deal between the two sides.

In the past week, The Israel Project, publisher of The Tower, has held conference calls featuring newsmakers and experts regarding the escalation from Hamas that precipitated Operation Preventive Edge. The informative calls with missile defense expert Uzi Rubin, IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren, Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs Gen. Yossi Kupperwasser, and current Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer, are available to be heard on The Israel Project’s website .

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