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Three people killed in an Israeli aerial strike at the Gaza border have been revealed as being three teenage boys, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. According to Gazan health officials, reported by Reuters, two of the boys were aged 13, and one was 14.
This confirms an earlier report by Palestine Red Crescent Society spokesman Erab Fuqaha, who told Sputnik on Sunday that they had retrieved the bodies of three Palestinian teenagers from the border area.
Earlier Sunday, the Israeli IDF released a statement saying that the trio were terrorists trying to break a border fence or plant explosives.
"Three Palestinians approached the security fence in the southern Gaza Strip. They attempted to damage it, while apparently trying to plant an explosive device nearby," the IDF statement declared.
An aerial vehicle opened fire in their direction, killing all three.
The IDF said on Saturday that they targeted dozens of facilities in the Gaza Strip after more than 30 rockets were fired from the area toward Israel. The IDF claimed Syria and Iran had instructed the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement to carry out the attacks. According to Reuters, the missile firings were prompted by Israel killing four Palestinians near the border.
Earlier on Sunday, the Alray Palestinian media agency reported that the Palestinian Islamic Jihad had expressed its consent to a comprehensive ceasefire with Israel after talks with Egyptian officials.
"After contacts between the Islamic Jihad leadership and the brothers in Egypt it was agreed that a comprehensive ceasefire will begin immediately," Palestinian Islamic Jihad spokesman Daoud Shehab said. "The Islamic Jihad will abide by the ceasefire if the occupation [Tel Aviv] does the same."
The "religious" Orthodox Jew recites the "Eighteen Benedictions," or "Shemoneh Esreh," three times week days, four times on holidays and Sabbaths, the 7th and 12th of which curse the Christians and non-Jews to hell and perdition. Thus, the "good Orthodox Jew" gives us Christians 6 cursings on ordinary days, 8 on "specials." Note all the varieties of double talk which have been utilized down the centuries to keep the truth about the "Shemoneh Esreh" from the non-Jews, who might not be friendly to those who recite this "Brotherhood" litany religiously 6 to 8 times daily! Note: "In order to obviate hostile misconstructions, the text was modified …," and one change after another [page 15] to fool the non-Jew is enumerated. (See Exhibit 284) The 12th benediction, the "Birkat ha-Minim" (curse against Christians, etc.) "furnished the traducers of Judaism and the Jews a ready weapon of attack." (See Exhibit 284) This "Petition Against Enemies" (non-Jews) is called an "imprecatory appeal." "Imprecatory" means, of course, "invoking evil, a curse" (Webster). It is further stated by the cautious Jewish Encyclopedia (same Exhibit), "The seventh benediction … looks like a duplication and is superfluous." The Jewish Encyclopedia also cites a recommendation by the "sages" for daily recitation of the "benediction:" "Blessed be thou who hast not made me a goy." (See Exhibit 273) In the Talmud, the Christian is also planted in Hell for eternity under a deluge of "boiling excrement" if opposing "Judaism:" "Whoever mocks the words of the Sages is punished with boiling hot excrement." (Talmud, Gittin 57a; Exhibit 202) On this same page, where the ordinary Christian gets this eternal fate, Christ is similarly punished forever in hell with "boiling semen."