![]() ![]() Airstrikes, such as the nearly 50 tons of bombs dropped July 14, were initially used only after rocket attacks. It started targeting them directly in July, resulting first in injuries and then a death. ![]() In June it began firing warning shots near groups launching the kites. Its military initially dealt with arson kites by intercepting them with drones. July saw an estimated 200 rockets being fired from the Gaza Strip in one day and sniper fire killing the first Israeli soldier there in four years. Explosives-laden balloons joined the fire-carrying ones in June. In May, they fired 188 rockets and mortar shells, the first significant barrage since 2014. Gaza militants began using incendiary kites and balloons to burn Israeli crops and forests in April. Israeli and Gazan firepower escalations demonstrate this progression. Each hopes the mutual threat will cause the other to back down first. Each proclaims its determination and willingness to approach the disaster’s edge. On the Gaza side, Israeli air and ground assaults could devastate Gaza’s already-weak infrastructure and topple its Hamas government.īrinkmanship’s second feature is both sides deliberately (albeit perversely) inching toward the mutual disaster. While Israel’s Iron Dome interceptors and civil defenses would likely limit its casualties from Hamas’ estimated 12,000-plus rockets, another war could cost Israel billions of dollars in military expenses and lost economic activity, just as Protective Edge did. ![]() Neither the Netanyahu government nor Hamas want a replay of 2014’s Operation Protective Edge rocket war. First, if the two sides don’t eventually reach agreement, they’ll suffer a disaster both wish to avoid. The Israel-Gaza situation, like those two earlier examples, displays three key features. Over 11,000 controllers lost their jobs and flights were disrupted for months. The strategy was less successful during America’s 1981 air traffic controller strike, when neither the controllers’ union nor President Ronald Reagan would back down. forces went to DEFCON 2 – a state of alert meaning war was imminent. They reached a deal for removing Soviet missiles from the island, but not before the Soviets shot down an American spy plane and U.S. Kennedy avoided nuclear war by ordering a naval “quarantine” of Cuba and responding selectively to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s demands. successfully used it against the Soviet Union during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Each therefore is hoping brinkmanship will force the other to make concessions.īrinkmanship is a powerful but risky strategy. But their demands regarding military security, economic activity, and prisoner exchanges appear mutually incompatible. This skirmishing basically represents bargaining moves by Israel and Gaza over the terms of their relationship. ![]() official said another war had appeared “just minutes away.” The ceasefire announced May 30 perhaps seemed promising, but those of July 14 and July 21 seemed like aspirations rather than expectations. The firepower employed by both parties has steadily escalated while purported truces have crumbled more quickly. Since then, Palestinian authorities say that 157 Gazans have been killed and thousands injured. Relations between Israel and the Gaza Strip have become increasingly violent since the Palestinian “Great March of Return” protests began in March. ![]()
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