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ISRAEL HAS SAID it struck 25 more Hamas “military targets” in air raids in the Gaza Strip overnight in response to rocket and mortar fire, part of the worst military flare-up since a 2014 war.
Targets included drone sheds, a rocket-making workshop and “military compounds,” a military statement said.
Israel said it it hit more than 35 militant targets in the Palestinian enclave yesterday after a barrage of rocket and mortar fire from Hamas, the Islamist group that runs the Gaza Strip, and Islamic Jihad.
It said late last night about 70 rockets and mortars had been fired at Israel throughout the day. A number of them were intercepted by air defence systems.
Three Israeli soldiers were wounded. There were no immediate reports of casualties in Gaza.
Sirens and explosions continued into the night after yesterday’s eruption.
Ceasefire
Gaza’s Hamas rulers have said in recent hours that they have agreed to a ceasefire with Israel to end the largest flare-up of violence between the sides since a 2014 war.
Khalil al-Haya, a senior Hamas official, said that Egyptian mediators intervened “after the resistance succeeded in warding off the aggression”.
He said militant groups in Gaza will commit to the ceasefire as long as Israel does. Israeli Cabinet minister Naftali Bennett told Israel’s Army Radio no agreement has been reached yet.
Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz also denied a ceasefire had been reached.
“Israel does not want the situation to deteriorate, but those who started the violence must stop it,” he told Israeli public radio, denying ceasefire claims by Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
Israel will make (Hamas) pay for all fire against Israel.
The border area has been tense in recent weeks as Palestinians have held mass protests aimed at lifting an Israeli-Egyptian blockade imposed after Hamas seized power in 2007.
Dozens of Palestinians were killed when Israeli troops used live ammunition to keep protesters away from the border fence.
There is a debate over whether the rebellion in Wexford was an organised United Irishmen rebellion or a spontaneous peasant uprising, so the survey might help answer that. Also there seems to be a lot of confusion about the wider context of the rebellion. In the 19th century the Catholic Church tried to rewrite the history of the rebellion as a Catholic/Nationalist uprising and exaggerated the role of priests like John Murphy placing him in a prominent leadership position, while downplaying the role of the secular republican United Irishmen. There were 85 priests in Wexford at the time and 11 were believed (or suspected) to have some role in the rebellion, so the other 74 were either neutral or had loyalist sympathies. The bona fide United Irishmen were primarily a Protestant movement, whereas on the loyalist side, the North Cork Militia for example, were Gaelic speaking Catholics.
At last someone that knows his history well done ben
+1
Thanks, Ben
I swear if they do anything that will alter the place in anyway, I’ll be going up the lane with pike in hand!
Too late – there are lots of houses on it – and a ” gaelge school”
There are no houses on the actual hill. The Gaelscoil is about a mile down the road from it. So that’s not on the hill.
There are no houses on the actual hill. The Gaelscoil is about a mile down the road from it. So that’s not on the hill.
- You are taking top of hill to be the Hill – and that school is not one mile from final gateway to hill .
Jim I’ve lived beside Vinegar Hill nearly all my life. I don’t count the top of the hill where the rocks are to be the entire hill. The hill starts to me at the bottom of the lane that you drive up and continues down to the lane that runs along by the back of colaiste bride and the waterworks. It goes down to the back of vinegar hill villas and on the opposite side down to road in clonhaston where Mcgees golf club used to be. That’s just me but I really don’t think many people that live in Enniscorthy count just the rocks and the castle to be the entirety of the hill.
The hill starts to me at the bottom of the lane that you drive up ”
- the hill starts shortly where u turn up from E/corthy town – - I thought I could attach a photo – but will try to insert – gives some idea
http://www.pbase.com/jflavin/image/153657645
You must not be from Enniscorthy Jim. Ask people who live on one side of town where the hill starts and you’ll get the answer that you’ve said. But me being from the Shannon living at the back of the hill will give an entirely different answer. BTW nice photo!
Is it hilly ?
Hope they dont unearth any awkward truths about our heros, such as kelly the boy frm killane claiming travel expenses from kiltealy, fr. murphy being involved in numerous child abuse cover ups, and bagenal harvey drawing a salary of several hundred thousand from being ceo of a charitable organisation. No wait thats the current elites.
Vinegar hill is a dump. Literally a dump with rubbish and beer bottles.
It’s actually after improving immensely. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen bags of rubbish dumped on the hill.
That is good news
Must be preping the place for wind turbines.
Your queen is a mongrel.
Dig it up, no harm in looking. The more we understand the past the more we can learn from it.
I know nothing of this spent years in School my history teacher has a lot to answer for..!
………….as does you English teacher
Me no speak gud engerish
God save our victorious glorious queen
Would have been George the Third my ill educated friend
or as he was better known “Richard the Turd”
Will they find bodies of the hundreds of Protestants, women . children the elderly and infirm, that were taken from the streets and their homes of the town and surrounding areas and murdered in cold blood on Vinegar Hill , Wexford bridge and burnt to death in the barn in Scullabogue ? If they do find them on the Hill will they be swept under the heather again ?
Just Google the The Battle of Vinegar Hill,
and you will have all that information in a few seconds .
three years ??? and an awful waste of money.
How do you think that information gets on Google?
Aliens done it?
Well that’s always a possibility, I suppose.
Dont ya just hate people that have no history and then talk bla bla bla as if they know what there talking about
Le craoi agus lamh…..
Most of Irish history is myth & gossip.
@wellyd your completely right on where the hill starts on vinegar hill, and I walked my dogs for years on it and I never see any beer cans or rubbish on it, great place to let the dogs off around all the fields it’s just a pity the council don’t spend money on it and put lights on up there to light up burnt down windmill and rocks, it’s a national icon but the council lets it rot and deteriorate away
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