Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Israeli College Student Killed in Qassam Rocket Attack

Israeli College Student Killed in Qassam Rocket Attack
Hamas Fired Over 30 Rockets Today
Israel’s Battle for Peace
Pre War: Israel/Gaza Conflict
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 .

I’ll start this post off by saying, that in my opinion, these Qassam rocket attacks today, into Israel, will most likely be the final straw. Gloves will come off... for WAR Is Coming.
These attacks will soon stop.
AubreyJ.........

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An Israeli College Student was killed on Wednesday after a Qassam rocket landed in a parking lot near the Sapir College campus in southern Israel. Medics alerted to the scene also treated two more Israelis for minor wounds... Over 30 Qassam rockets were fired by Palestinian groups from Gaza on Wednesday afternoon, hitting a factory in an industrial zone and striking in and around the town of Sderot and other Gaza vicinity...
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YNETNews.com

* HAARETZ.com has this report on today’s attacks...
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday said that a war was being waged in southern Israel and the Gaza Strip, and vowed that "no one in Hamas, not the low-level officials nor the highest echelon, will be immune against this war."...
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Olmert: No one in Hamas will be immune against war we wage

* KhaleejTimes.com weighs in with this report...
Ten Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Wednesday, at least six of them Islamist militants, medical sources said...
Israeli air strikes kill 10 Palestinians

* SWISSInfo.ch brings us this report...
A rocket launched from the Hamas-run Gaza Strip killed a man in Israel on Wednesday, the first such fatality in nine months, after Israeli forces killed 10 Palestinians, most of them militants, in the territory... The rocket attack, claimed by Hamas, seemed certain to increase public pressure on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to order tougher military action in the Gaza Strip, including a possible wide scale ground operation...
Israel and Hamas violence spikes on Gaza border
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College Student Killed After Kassam Rocket Barrage Sderot
The above raw News Video posted on Live Leak by barnesy
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* From the IDF website we find this news article today...
In room number 23 in the orthopedic wing of the Barzilai Hospital in Ashkalon, ten year old Yosi Himud lies in his hospital bed. Yosi was wounded by a Qassam rocket that fell near his house in Sderot on Monday. GOC of the Homefront Command was among the dozens of visitors and relatives who visited Yosi yesterday. Major General Yair Golan came to support the young boy through his painful healing process...
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Standing in Solidarity with Sderot
Photo Credit : IDF Spokesperson
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UPDATES:
Thursday
, February 28, 2008

>>> Blomberg.com has this report out this Thursday morning and it goes in part like this... Israeli forces and Palestinian militants in Gaza, which is controlled by the Islamic militant movement, Hamas, are locked in daily violence. Israel has so far responded to the Gaza rocket attacks with limited ground operations and air strikes and an economic blockade of the enclave... Following yesterday's death in Sderot, and the rockets that fell today on Ashkelon, a city of about 110,000 people that lies 17 kilometers (11 miles) from Gaza, calls for more extensive military operations increased. In the next few weeks, Israel's military will complete its preparations for a major ground offensive in Gaza, the daily Haaretz said, citing unidentified military officials...
Read this report in full
HERE

>>> YNETNews.com has this report... Two long-range Grad rockets fired from the northern Gaza Strip Thursday evening hit the southern city of Ashkelon. One of the rockets landed near a school in the center of town. a 17-year-old girl suffered light shrapnel wounds in the latest attack and several other people suffered from anxiety... More than 30 Qassam and Grad rockets were fired from Gaza at southern Israel throughout the day...
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Grad lands near Ashkelon school

>>> IHT.com reports... Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak talked of escalation in Gaza and considered the possibility of a large-scale ground operation there to stop rocket barrages, according to a participant in a security meeting Thursday... The participant, speaking on condition of anonymity because the meeting was closed, quoted Barak as saying, "We need to prepare for an escalation. The major ground operation is real and tangible. We won't flinch and we are not afraid of it."...
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