“Operation Summer Rains” - Sunday, July 02, 2006

(Note: This post will stay on top today – More post below)
“Operation Summer Rains”
UPDATED- Sunday, July 02, 2006

>>> 10:30am CDT
IDF- The Official Website is back after their weekend and is now posting updates on the events over the last few days. Click it out HERE (Has videos of Airstrikes and such)

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Also-- Fox News is reporting Intense Shelling is now going on by Israel into the Gaza Strip. Nighttime is coming in less than two hours and the Israeli mission is expected to intensify even more after dark including the possibility of troops moving into Northern Gaza...

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Bloomberg.com reports... Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ordered the army to step up actions against “terrorist” holding an abducted Israeli soldier and warned that no one would be immune from an attack... “I have ordered that the intensity of military operations be stepped up to pursue those terrorists, their dispatchers, their ideological mentors, and those who sponsor them,” Olmert said at the start of a weekly Cabinet meeting. “I said, and I repeat, no one will be exempt.” Read this story in full HERE

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>>> 1:10pm CDT
BBCNEWS is reporting... The military wing of the governing Palestinian party, Hamas, has said it will attack targets inside Israel if Israel does not end its Gaza offensive... However, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has ordered his military to intensify its action there... Read this story in full HERE

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ynetnews.com reports... The Syrian government has told visiting Arab officials that it will not put pressure on Hamas' exiled leadership to help free the soldier as long as Israeli raids on civilian and military targets in Gaza continue... Read more HERE

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CourierMail.news.com is reporting... The Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has pleaded for the world to help stop the slide towards war in the Holy Land as the deadline expired for the release of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. Read this story in full HERE

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>>> 6:25pm CDT
Metronews.ca is reporting... An Israeli helicopter gunship fired a missile into a building used by militants in Gaza on Monday, witnesses said... The army said the air strike targeted a meeting place in Gaza City for militants from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades of President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement... Read story in full HERE

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>>> 12:40am CDT- Monday
Early this morning The Jerusalem Post is reporting... A small Israeli force entered northern Gaza at daybreak Monday, including tanks, armored personnel carriers and bulldozers. The troops took up positions around the town of Beit Hanoun. The operation was titled "Spearhead." Read this story in full HERE

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Let’s pray diplomacy and politics can work here and now... and also pray no harm has come to this Israeli soldier. History is on hold-- we shall know its direction soon enough...

(Like tonight-- Israel time... possibly)
God speed Israel...
AubreyJ.........
NOTE: More ongoing updates can be found at YnetNews.com