What's going on in Gaza today
 

Palestinians are being forced out of their homes and their houses are being blown up to create a buffer zone at the border. Nearly a thousand Gazans have been displaced. There is no outrage from the international media.

Journalists are being forbidden from entering the area... Gazans have cynically been offered compensation for the loss of their homes, but so far less than a quarter of them have accepted it.

They are creating a 500m buffer zone at the border and residents were given 48 hours to leave their houses before demolitions began.

East Germany did basically the same thing on their border, but at least they had the decency to do it on their own side. Israel, not even meeting the low standards set by the commies in the DDR.

The plan is to dig a 20 meter trench along the 13 mile border and fill it with water to prevent further tunnels. They say this is retaliation for the last two attacks which happened last week and killed a bunch of soldiers. Hamas didn't claim responsibility for those attacks but the government is saying they have proof. The President says it's just fine because they are fighting a "war of existence".

But I'm being coy here. This is rotten of me.

It's not Israel this time. It's Egypt.

NYTimes story http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/wo...ffer-zone.html

Times of Israel story http://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-s...-more-tunnels/

The Obama administration supports this and the US is providing the helicopters for the action

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/ne...ne-around-gaza

"The United Nations Human Rights Commissioner has called [the action] an abuse of human rights."

At least everyone is being consistent.

I don't get who these militants are, Palestinians upset with the Egyptian government, Egyptian dissidents using Gaza as their own Peshawar type hideout, or radical Muslims financed by our "friends"?

It would be ironic if Egypt's President SISI turned out to be the anti-ISIS.