Gaza vows to respond to Israeli air strikes

Palestinian armed groups have vowed to respond to Israel's attack on a tunnel in a southern town of the Gaza Strip late on Monday that left at least seven people dead and nine others wounded.

"We will exercise our right to respond - this is our duty," Daoud Shehab, a leader in the Islamic Jihad movement, told Al Jazeera, adding that it is the legitimate right of the resistance groups to respond. 

Palestinian media said that the tunnel in Khan Younis had been hit by the Israeli air force.

"Reports said Israel fired five missiles at the tunnel that was being dug east of Khan Younis and which Israel claims was leading to its territory," Palestinian news agency Wafa said. Israeli officials said that the tunnel near the border wall, which was in the process of being built, was blown up after being monitored for some time.

The ministry of health in Gaza officially identified five of those killed as members of the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad and two others as members of Hamas' Izz Eddine al-Qassam Brigades.Hamas decried the attack as the "latest Zionist crime".

"Resisting the occupation in all its forms is a natural right guaranteed for our people," the movement said in a statement.

Meanwhile, Fatah, the West Bank-based political party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, called for dialogue between Palestinians to discuss the best response to the Israeli bombardment.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed what he called "breakthrough technology" in dealing with tunnel threats.He also held Hamas responsible for any attempt to harm the sovereignty of his country.

Since 2008, Israel has launched three offensives on the Gaza Strip.The latest one took place in the summer of 2014 and resulted in the deaths of more than 2,200 Palestinians, including 500 children. 

Sixty-six Israeli occupation soldiers and seven Israeli non-combatants were killed in the same period.

The Israeli blockade of the occupied Gaza Strip, in its current form, has been in place since June 2007.

Israel controls Gaza's airspace and territorial waters, as well as two of the three border crossing points; the third is controlled by Egypt.

Citation: 

Jazeera, Al. “Gaza Vows to Respond to Israeli Air Strikes.” News | Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera, 31 Oct. 2017, www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/10/gaza-vows-respond-israeli-air-strikes-171031051951560.html.

Response: 

Audience: The audience is for Israel and Palestine because the Israeli-Palestine conflict has been going on for a while now and this event is only making things worse. This article would be directed to both the governments and the relatives of those who lost their lives.

Bias: I can't see a lot of bias from the writer in this article because most of the information is directly from another source. There is a lot of information about Israel so there may be a slight bias against them. Most of the information on Israel is about how they shot the missiles and about the deaths that they caused. The publisher is most likely not very biased because there it is from the middle east. There would most likely be a bias against Israel from the readers because this article states that people died because of Israel's decisions.

Purpose: The purpose of this article was to inform both Israel and Palestine, as well as their other allies about what happened and how this might effect the state of the conflict. There is a lot of tension and worry in these two countries so the people inside would most likely want to know about what is really happening or about what will happen.

Opinion: I would say that I am a bit more biased against Israel for causing the deaths of several people. Also, the fact that they would do that just because they thought that the tunnel was coming into Israel makes me angry. The article doesn't mention that they had any proof that this was the case.