ON Ground Updates:
* Operation 'Cast Lead' *
* Day Three *
Retaliation for Ongoing Rocket Attacks against the Jewish State
Israel/Palestinian Conflict
Monday, December 29, 2008
* Operation 'Cast Lead' *
* Day Three *
Retaliation for Ongoing Rocket Attacks against the Jewish State
Israel/Palestinian Conflict
Monday, December 29, 2008
.About above AP News Video: Israel widened its deadliest-ever air offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers Sunday, sending more tanks and artillery toward the Gaza border for a possible ground invasion. (December 29th)
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Let’s see what other news sources are reporting this Monday...
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* VOANews.com gets us started with this news report... An Israeli offensive against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip has entered its third day Monday, with the Palestinian death toll from air strikes surpassing 300... Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says the operation that began Saturday may last a long time. However, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni says Israel has no plans to re-occupy the territory, as it did for 38 years ending in 2005. Israel says the offensive is in response to repeated militant attacks from Gaza against Israeli territory...
Read the full report at link below...
Israel Continues Gaza Offensive For Third Day
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* MFA.gov.il had this report on their website Sunday and it started off like this... On Sunday, FM Tzipi Livni met in Sderot with foreign diplomats serving in Israel and briefed them on events in Gaza and the situation in southern Israel...
Following link has excerpts from this briefing...
FM Livni briefs foreign diplomats in Sderot
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Let’s see what other news sources are reporting this Monday...
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* VOANews.com gets us started with this news report... An Israeli offensive against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip has entered its third day Monday, with the Palestinian death toll from air strikes surpassing 300... Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says the operation that began Saturday may last a long time. However, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni says Israel has no plans to re-occupy the territory, as it did for 38 years ending in 2005. Israel says the offensive is in response to repeated militant attacks from Gaza against Israeli territory...
Read the full report at link below...
Israel Continues Gaza Offensive For Third Day
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* MFA.gov.il had this report on their website Sunday and it started off like this... On Sunday, FM Tzipi Livni met in Sderot with foreign diplomats serving in Israel and briefed them on events in Gaza and the situation in southern Israel...
Following link has excerpts from this briefing...
FM Livni briefs foreign diplomats in Sderot
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* YNETNew.com has this report this Monday morning and it starts off like this... An Israeli Arab laborer was killed Monday morning from a Grad rocket which hit a construction site inside Ashkelon. An air raid siren was sounded in the seaside city just before 9:30 am, followed by an explosion which rocked many areas across Ashkelon... Sixteen people were injured in the attack, five of them sustaining moderate wounds and the rest lightly hurt. They were evacuated to the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon...
Read the rest at link below...
Laborer killed by rocket in Ashkelon
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* CNN.com had this informative read posted up on their website early this Monday morning...
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza enter third day
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JerusalemOnline.com
Read the rest at link below...
Laborer killed by rocket in Ashkelon
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* CNN.com had this informative read posted up on their website early this Monday morning...
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza enter third day
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JerusalemOnline.com
Israel’s Channel 2 News Online
Click out their Daily New Report HERE
(Due to HEAVY Internet traffic, News Video may take a few to load)
Click out their Daily New Report HERE
(Due to HEAVY Internet traffic, News Video may take a few to load)
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Here’s a few more updated reports I found this evening that you might want to click out...
* PressTV.ir has this report... A top Hamas official rules out any talk of a new ceasefire with Israel unless all missile strikes on Gaza stop and border crossings open... "Stop all kinds of aggression, open all (crossings), stop all the violence against the people," deputy head of Hamas' politburo Moussa Abu Marzouk said in an interview with The Associated Press in Damascus... Abu Marzouk also vowed that the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement will not give in and it is prepared to encounter any Israeli ground incursion.
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Here’s a few more updated reports I found this evening that you might want to click out...
* PressTV.ir has this report... A top Hamas official rules out any talk of a new ceasefire with Israel unless all missile strikes on Gaza stop and border crossings open... "Stop all kinds of aggression, open all (crossings), stop all the violence against the people," deputy head of Hamas' politburo Moussa Abu Marzouk said in an interview with The Associated Press in Damascus... Abu Marzouk also vowed that the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement will not give in and it is prepared to encounter any Israeli ground incursion.
Read the rest at link below...
'Stop Gaza attacks for new ceasefire'
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* BBC.co.uk had this report posted on their website this evening and it goes in part like this... "The United States understands that Israel needs to take actions to defend itself," said White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe... "In order for the violence to stop, Hamas must stop firing rockets into Israel and agree to respect a sustainable and durable ceasefire."... It is an attitude that is very similar to the one adopted by the Bush administration during the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon - calling for a sustainable cease-fire and a lasting peace rather than pressuring Israel to immediately halt a military operation that was killing civilians...
Read the full report at link below...
US tacitly backs Israel offensive
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* IDF has the following posted up on their website late Monday evening. It goes as follows...
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Image by IDF - Aerial attack in the Gaza Strip
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At about 18:00 Monday evening, the IAF struck a Hamas vehicle loaded with dozens of Grad type missiles in the Jabaliya area, in the Gaza Strip. The vehicle was hit resulting in the secondary explosion of the Grad missiles in the vehicle. According to IDF assessments, the missiles were being transferred by Hamas to a hiding location, fearing that the previous location was being targeted by the IDF, or were on route to missile launching sites.
'Stop Gaza attacks for new ceasefire'
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* BBC.co.uk had this report posted on their website this evening and it goes in part like this... "The United States understands that Israel needs to take actions to defend itself," said White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe... "In order for the violence to stop, Hamas must stop firing rockets into Israel and agree to respect a sustainable and durable ceasefire."... It is an attitude that is very similar to the one adopted by the Bush administration during the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon - calling for a sustainable cease-fire and a lasting peace rather than pressuring Israel to immediately halt a military operation that was killing civilians...
Read the full report at link below...
US tacitly backs Israel offensive
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* IDF has the following posted up on their website late Monday evening. It goes as follows...
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Image by IDF - Aerial attack in the Gaza Strip..
At about 18:00 Monday evening, the IAF struck a Hamas vehicle loaded with dozens of Grad type missiles in the Jabaliya area, in the Gaza Strip. The vehicle was hit resulting in the secondary explosion of the Grad missiles in the vehicle. According to IDF assessments, the missiles were being transferred by Hamas to a hiding location, fearing that the previous location was being targeted by the IDF, or were on route to missile launching sites.
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Late Sunday night (Dec.28), IDF forces struck dozens of Hamas targets including headquarters, weapons manufacturing and storage facilities, tunnels, missile launching pads, and equipment warehouses.
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Among the targets hit was the office of Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza City. The IAF also targeted a weapons research and development center, located in the Rimel neighborhood of Gaza City, which was used as a laboratory to develop and manufacture explosives and was an integral part of the Qassam rocket manufacturing infrastructure.
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Among the targets hit was the office of Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza City. The IAF also targeted a weapons research and development center, located in the Rimel neighborhood of Gaza City, which was used as a laboratory to develop and manufacture explosives and was an integral part of the Qassam rocket manufacturing infrastructure.
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* I’ll end my post today with this report I found at the MetroNews.ca website. It was posted early Tuesday morning, their time... and it starts off like this... Israel obliterated symbols of Hamas power on the third day of what the defense minister described Monday as a "war to the bitter end," striking next to the Hamas premier's home and devastating a security compound and a university building... The three-day death toll rose Monday to 364, with some 1,400 reported wounded. The UN said at least 62 of the dead were civilians, while medics said eight children under the age of 17 were killed in two separate strikes overnight... Israel launched its campaign, the deadliest against Palestinians in decades, on Saturday in retaliation for rocket fire aimed at civilians in southern Israeli towns...
Read the rest at link below...
Israel describes Gaza assault as 'war to the bitter end'
* I’ll end my post today with this report I found at the MetroNews.ca website. It was posted early Tuesday morning, their time... and it starts off like this... Israel obliterated symbols of Hamas power on the third day of what the defense minister described Monday as a "war to the bitter end," striking next to the Hamas premier's home and devastating a security compound and a university building... The three-day death toll rose Monday to 364, with some 1,400 reported wounded. The UN said at least 62 of the dead were civilians, while medics said eight children under the age of 17 were killed in two separate strikes overnight... Israel launched its campaign, the deadliest against Palestinians in decades, on Saturday in retaliation for rocket fire aimed at civilians in southern Israeli towns...
Read the rest at link below...
Israel describes Gaza assault as 'war to the bitter end'
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