Bomb Gaza

[Captain Obvious]

@Hassan ?

- you can't make this $#@! up.

Google Play takes down 'Bomb Gaza' game

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/28650686

Some users had called it "disgusting", "a disgrace" and "inappropriate".

However, Google has now taken down a game called "Bomb Gaza" from its Google Play store.

ith the conflict between Israel and Palestinian group Hamas continuing, there had been criticism of the game's existence on the platform.

Google says it doesn't comment on specifics but says it removes apps that violate its policies.

[waltky]

Israel strikes Gaza for Hamas rocket attacks against Sderot...

Israeli Airstrikes Hit Gaza After Hamas Launches Rocket Attacks
August 9, 2018 • At least three people are reportedly dead and a dozen injured in the Gaza Strip, while at least 11 people reportedly were wounded when Hamas rockets landed in the southern Israeli city of Sderot.

Israeli jets pounded targets in the Gaza Strip early Thursday, reportedly killing three people after Palestinian militants fired a barrage of rockets into Israel. The Gaza Health Ministry said a pregnant woman, her 18-month-old child and a Hamas militant were killed. The Palestinian news agency WAFA cited health officials as confirming that a dozen other Palestinians were wounded in the airstrikes. The Israeli attacks came in apparent retaliation for the launching of about 150 rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel, wounding 11 Israelis, according to Haaretz. The rockets landed in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, where nine residents were taken to the hospital, including a woman in serious condition, the newspaper reports.

An explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City early Thursday.

Hamas claimed responsibility for the rocket attack and a tweet issued by a spokesman for the militant group, Abdullatif al-Kanoo, was translated by Al Jazeera as saying that the Palestinian resistance "is in self-defense and has a duty to respond to the aggression against our people." "The escalation of the barbaric shelling of Gaza and the deliberate targeting of civilians [by Israel] is premeditated and the [Israeli] occupation will suffer the repercussions and pay a higher price for its crimes," he said, according to the news service.


A senior Israeli Defense Forces official warned Hamas in a tweet that it "will understand in the coming hours, as in the past months, that this is not the direction it wants to chose." Hamas wants an Israeli-Egyptian border blockade to be lifted, while Israel is demanding an end to the rocket attacks, border protests and the launching of incendiary balloons over the border. Despite the escalation between the two sides, The Associated Press quotes an unnamed Hamas official as saying that cease-fire talks were in their final stage even though disagreements persisted. He said Israel has offered only an easing, but not an end, to the blockade.


https://www.npr.org/2018/08/09/637004199/israeli-airstrikes-hit-gaza-after-hamas-launches-rocket-attacks