{"id":131137,"date":"2014-07-18T00:32:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T00:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=131137"},"modified":"2014-07-18T00:32:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T00:32:48","slug":"moving-iron-dome-iron-fist-israel-launches-ground-invasion-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/moving-iron-dome-iron-fist-israel-launches-ground-invasion-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Are Moving from Iron Dome to an Iron Fist\u2019: Israel Launches Ground Invasion of Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Adam Horowitz,\u00a0Alex Kane<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">In total so far, 231 Palestinians\u2014most of them civilians\u2014have been killed by Israel. One Israeli has been killed by rocket fire.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Israeli ground troops have invaded the Gaza Strip in an action that the Israeli government says is meant to destroy the network of tunnels Palestinian militants have built that lead into Israel. While the initial ground incursion may be limited to the tunnels, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s office said in a statement that \u201cthe prime minister and the defense minister have ordered the IDF to make preparations for expanding the ground operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-131138\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/screen_shot_2014-07-17_at_7.12.55_pm-1.png\" alt=\"screen_shot_2014-07-17_at_7.12.55_pm (1)\" width=\"310\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/screen_shot_2014-07-17_at_7.12.55_pm-1.png 310w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/screen_shot_2014-07-17_at_7.12.55_pm-1-75x54.png 75w, http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/screen_shot_2014-07-17_at_7.12.55_pm-1-138x100.png 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe prime minister and the defense minister have ordered the IDF to begin a ground operation in order to damage the underground tunnel terrors constructed in Gaza leading into Israeli territory,\u201d the\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/news\/diplomacy-defense\/1.605590\">statement from the prime minister\u2019s office read.<\/a>\u00a0The last time there was a large ground operation was in January 2009, during Operation Cast Lead, when 1,400 Palestinians, the vast majority of them civilians, were killed.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear whether what is being described as an operation to destroy tunnels will expand into a larger ground invasion. But\u00a0The Independent\u00a0(UK)\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/israelgaza-conflict-israel-resumes-air-strikes-following-rocket-fire-9607636.html\">reported that Israeli officials<\/a>\u00a0told them the \u201cfirst step would be \u2018surgical\u2019 incursions into Gaza and then an operation to divide the Strip into three to prevent movement between the areas,\u201d a strategy Israel employed during the Cast Lead invasion.\u00a0Al Jazeera\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/articles\/2014\/7\/17\/gaza-ground-invasion.html\">Gregg Carlstrom reports that \u201ccolumns\u201d of Israeli tanks have entered Gaza.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are moving from Iron Dome to an iron fist,\u201d Naftali Bennett, the economy minister, said earlier today,\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/07\/17\/us-palestinians-israel-idUSKBN0FI04420140717\">Reuters\u00a0reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/we-are-moving-iron-dome-iron-fist-israel-launches-ground-invasion-gaza\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Horowitz,\u00a0Alex Kane In total so far, 231 Palestinians\u2014most of them civilians\u2014have been killed by Israel. One Israeli has been killed by rocket fire. Israeli ground troops have invaded the Gaza Strip in an action that the Israeli government says is meant to destroy the network of tunnels Palestinian militants have built that lead into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-131137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}