’Israeli’ Brutality Continues against Gaza, It Confesses: Soldier Missing

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The "Israeli" aggression on the besieged Gaza strip continued on Tuesday, including hitting 100 targets in Shujaiiya, the scene of the "Israeli" brutal massacre against the Palestinians the conflict.

This comes as Tel Aviv confirmed that one of its soldiers was missing.

On Sunday, Hamas Resistance Movement announced that it had captured an "Israeli" soldier, named as Aron Shaul, in Shujaiiya.

Meanwhile, "Israel" confessed that twenty-seven soldiers have been killed in fighting.

As the "Israeli" aggression continued, John Kerry, the US secretary of state, was due to meet the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, and Egyptian mediators in Cairo.
Barack Obama said on Monday that Kerry had been authorized to do "everything he can to help facilitate a cessation of hostilities", in a sign that international diplomacy had been galvanized by the weekend carnage in Shujai'iya.

He pledged that the US would provide $47m in humanitarian aid to help Palestinians. He claimed: "Only Hamas now needs to make the decision to spare innocent civilians from this violence."
Seven people, including four women from one family, were martyred in an air strike early on Tuesday, according to Gaza paramedics.

On Monday, 25 members of the Abu Jame' family were martyred when "Israeli" forces struck a house near Khan Younis, apparently without warning.
In Cairo, Ban held talks on Monday with the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, and the head of the Arab League.

"Egypt does not mind adding some of Hamas's conditions provided that all involved parties approve," an Egyptian official told Reuters. Hamas is demanding an end to the blockade of Gaza, an end to hostilities, opening the border to Egypt, the release of prisoners held by the Zionist entity and other conditions in exchange for a truce.

Ismail Haniyeh, the former Hamas prime minister, confirmed that the "Israeli" forces were being beaten in Gaza. "The Palestinian resistance will meet the demands and expectations of the Palestinian people," he said on Monday evening, adding that Hamas's conditions were "the minimum demands" for any truce.

"Our people's sacrifices are heading for triumph," he said in a pre-recorded TV broadcast. "We see the al-Qassam Brigades and the Jerusalem Brigades and all resistance factions beating the enemy and attack him again and again, under the earth and sea. The ground operation is a declaration of failure on the part of the enemy aerial war against Gaza."

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team