ISRAEL EXPECTED TO BOMB BESIEGED GAZA DURING THE NIGHT

It's expected that Israel will make limited air-strikes in besieged Gaza this night - probably around 02:30-03.30 local time, as is usual - and claim them to be 'response' for four rockets fired from Gaza that hit an empty area near the ethnically cleansed town of Sderot on Friday evening without causing any injuries or damage.

There had already been reports of Israeli military aircraft flying above Gaza during earlier hours and currently we have reports from Gaza sources that F-16 fighter airplanes have entered airspace above Gaza, but the bombing has not yet started.

Earlier on Friday Israel's navy fired at Gaza fishermen and Israel's ground forces also fired on farmers in southeastern part on the Strip. Attacks like this by Israel have happened on several occasions during the last week and on Monday a man was shot and moderately wounded east of the al-Maghazi refugee camp by Israeli soldiers.

Israel's government and military are incapable or unwilling to see and acknowledge the connection between its attacks on Gaza and the rockets fired from there.

Wounding of two Israeli occupation soldiers in Ramallah on West Bank on Friday is also believed to increase Israel's "need" to show its anger and 'revenge' in a very public manner through bombing.

Israel also killed its own intelligence officer Amir Maimoni(29) on the Gaza border on Tuesday. Maimoni, a former soldier who took part in the Cast Lead attack on Gaza 2008-09, is said to have been dressed as a Palestinian when he was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers or a fellow intelligenge operative. His killer or killers would have taken him for a Palestinian entering the deadly 'buffer zone' Israel has announced.

Maimoni's mission is unknown beyond the fact that it was claimed to be 'important and complex' by a representative of Shin Bet, to which he was working when killed. Beyond this Israeli officials have only commented that his death was 'a friendly fire' 'accident' and sources don't agree whether he shot by soldiers or a fellow Shin Bet agent.

In some speculations his death has been connected to the preparations for a new attack on Gaza, in others to plans to find out where the two Israeli civilians held in Gaza Strip and the mortal remains of several missing soldiers (assuming that they are not still alive, as is possible, but less likely) from the 2014 war are.

Israel doesn't want to repeat the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange of 2011, so killing or extracting any captives and remains of soldiers is assumed to be a relatively high priority for it. The families of these Israelis have been becoming more vocal in public, which has increased pressure for the government to 'do something' which tends to mean violence against people in the besieged Gaza.

SOURCES:

Family of Ethiopian-Israeli missing in Gaza appeals to international community
http://www.jpost.com/…/Family-of-Ethiopian-Israeli-missing-…

Family of Israeli missing in Gaza pleads for global pressure on Hamas
http://www.timesofisrael.com/family-of-israeli-missing-in-…/

IOF opens fire at citizens southeast of Gaza City
http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx…

Israeli forces shoot, injure Palestinian man near Gaza border
http://maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770587

Israeli Officer killed in 'Friendly Fire' During Invasion of Gaza
http://www.imemc.org/article/75214

Rockets fired from Gaza Strip hit southern Israel: Israeli army
http://maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=770659

Shin Bet member killed in accident near Gaza border
http://www.jpost.com/…/Shin-Bet-employee-killed-on-Gaza-bor…

Shin Bet says its officer killed by Israeli gunfire near Gaza
http://english.palinfo.com/site/pages/details.aspx…