* Operation 'Cast Lead *
Continues throughout the Gaza Strip
Day Fourteen-Fifteen-Sixteen-Seventeen - Week Three
Retaliation for Ongoing Rocket Attacks against the Jewish State
Israel/Palestinian Conflict
Post Dates: Friday-Monday, January 09-12, 2009
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Photo from IDF
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Operation Continues: Anti-Tank Missiles Fired Upon IDF Forces
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In addition, the IAF struck over 70 targets throughout Friday (Jan. 9), which include 15 rocket launching sites and an armed rocket launcher, and rocket launching squads that launched rockets into Ashkelon earlier during the day. Furthermore, three houses belonging to Hamas terror operatives that were used as weapons storage facilities, two weapons smuggling tunnels, four weapons storage facilities, 20 terror operatives and a vehicle transporting with armed terrorists were targeted.
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On Thursday night (Jan. 8), the IN struck at least ten armed terror operatives in the central Gaza Strip. IN forces continued providing support to the Ground Forces throughout their operation in the Gaza Strip.
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IDF Paratroopers Fight Their Way Through Gaza's Streets
About Raw Video: An IDF Paratroop Unit fight their way thru North Gaza coming up against enemy fire and discovering Hamas weapons, uniforms, bombs and bomb making plans along the way... In a pinpoint operation conducted by IDF forces in coordination with the ISA this morning, soldiers targeted and identified hitting a number of Islamic Jihad operatives who in recent days launched rockets into Israel...
Video posted on LiveLeak by barnesy
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JerusalemOnline.com
Israel’s Channel 2 News Online
Click out their Daily News Report HERE
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* Here’s some Links out of Israel for you...
Most with 24/7 up-to-date News on this Operation
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* YNET News
* Arutz Sheva
* Jerusalem Post
* DEBKAfile
* (IDF)-Israel Defense Forces
* (YouTube)-IDF Spokesperson's Unit
* (MFA)-Israel Ministry Of Foreign Affairs
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Click Banner above to get all the Updated News from the ones making it... The Israeli Defense Forces!..
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No Cease Fire In Gaza
About Video: Fighting continues in Gaza, as both Israeli and Hamas leaders have abandoned the U.N. cease-fire plans. CBS News Mark Phillips reports from along the Israeli-Gaza border.
News Video Report posted on YouTube by CBS
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POST UPDATE:
Saturday, January 10, 2009
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‘Quote for the Week’
Livni BIO photo from MFS.gov.il
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“...When we left Gaza, Hamas used to write on billboards that terror won and Israel left Gaza because of terror. So today the message for the Palestinians is that we left the Gaza Strip in order to create hopes for peace. But now we are coming back because of terror..."
By Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni
Read the story behind the Quote HERE
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POST UPDATE:
Sunday, January 11, 2009
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* MedicineHatNews.com has this report posted on their website this Sunday morning and it starts off like this...
Israeli troops made their deepest advance into the Gaza Strip's most heavily populated area Sunday, encountering increasingly fierce resistance from Hamas fighters... Speaking to his cabinet, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the country "is nearing" its goals, but that the offensive will continue despite global calls for a ceasefire, led by the United Nations Security Council... Israel warned Gaza's 1.4 million residents Saturday that it plans to escalate a devastating air and ground assault that already has killed more than 800 Palestinians...
Read the full report at link below...
Israeli troops meet fierce Hamas resistance in Gaza City suburb
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* Telegraph.co.uk has this report...
Israel has signaled that it is close to achieving its goal of destroying the military wing of Hamas but said its offensive would continue for several more days...
Read the rest at link below...
Israel 'close to destroying military wing of Hamas'
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Hamas Map Found in Operation
About Video: Hamas turn a Gaza neighborhood into a warzoneThis map, confiscated Wednesday (Jan. 7th) by IDF paratroopers operating in the north of Gaza, shows how Hamas uses an entire neighborhood, rigging it with explosive devices and putting the entire civilian population at great risk. The map shows the al-Tatraa neighborhood in Gaza City divided into three areas of operation (red, blue and green). The dots on the map indicate where Hamas operatives had planted a variety of IEDs (improvised explosive devices), with the colors indicating the type of IED.
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Additional marks show sniper positions next to mosques. Next to the entrance of the el-Tawid mosque near to Shauuda Plaza at the top left of the map there is a sniper posting with marking indicating the direction of fire marked on the map. At the bottom center of the map there is a gas station where Hamas planted an IED which, if activated, could cause a very large explosion throughout the neighborhood.
An overall study of the map demonstrates how Hamas deliberately uses civilians, using them as live targets and hiding behind them; they plant IEDs at the enterances of homes, they booby trap homes and they use places of worship, all with no regard to collateral damage or civilian lives..
Video/Info posted on YouTube by idfnadesk
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IDF has the following update for us today...
IAF Strikes Head of Hamas Military Wing
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Throughout Saturday night (Jan. 10th), IAF forces continued striking Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. One of the targets was the house of the head of Hamas's military wing, Ahmed Jabri, in Sajaiya.
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The IAF struck over 60 targets throughout the Gaza Strip, including a mosque in the city of Rafah used for storing weaponry, such as machine guns and sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles. The mosque was also used as a training camp and a meeting place for Hamas members. Similarly, the Air Force carried out aerial strikes on 10 weaponry storage facilities (some located in houses belonging to Hamas operatives), 10 squads of armed operatives, nine weapons smuggling tunnels in the Philadephi Corridor in the Rafah area, three launching sites, an underground rocket launcher, and a Hamas police station.
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IDF Infantry Corps, Armored Corps, Engineering Corps, Artillery Corps and Intelligence Corps forces continue to operate against Hamas terrorist infrastructure in the Gaza Strip. The forces were involved in a number of incidents in which several armed operatives were hit. Armored Corps and Paratrooper Brigade forces identified a group of armed operatives and assisted in guiding IAF forces to the operative cell. In a separate incident, IDF forces in the northern Gaza Strip identified an armed operative planting an explosive device and fired at him.
Info from IDF official website - Photo credit: IDF Spokesperson
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PM Olmert's Remarks at start of Weekly Cabinet Meeting
Sunday, January 11, 2009
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Following are Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's remarks at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting today (Sunday), 11 January 2009:
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"For three weeks now, the State of Israel has been making an impressive military effort in the Gaza Strip in order to change the security situation in the south of the country. For many years we've demonstrated restraint. We reined our reactions. We bit our lips and took barrage after barrage. No country in the world - not even those who preach morality to us - would have shown similar patience and self-control. At the end of the day, the sense of responsibility and the obligation to defend our citizens, after endless warnings, led us to the unavoidable decision to defend our children and our residents whose lives had become intolerable.
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We knew in advance that this struggle would be neither easy nor simple. We did not delude ourselves that what seemed natural, clear and self-evident for any other country, would be received with a proper measure of agreement given that the State of Israel is involved. This did not impair, and does not impair, our determination to defend our residents. We have never agreed that someone should decide for us if we are allowed to strike at those who bomb kindergartens and schools and we will never agree to this in the future. No decision, present or future, will deny us our basic right to defend the residents of Israel.
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I must note that UN Security Council Resolution 1860 also sharply rules out continued attacks directed against civilians and does not forbid urgent action against them.
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Until now, we have made impressive achievements in the operation being conducted against the terrorist organizations in Gaza. They are the result of the courage, determination and sacrifice of IDF fighters and commanders, from IDF Chief-of-Staff Lt.-Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi to the soldiers now fighting terrorists somewhere in the Gaza Strip. To this must be added the exemplary and decisive contribution of the anonymous fighters of the ISA and ISA Director Yuval Diskin.
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This is the time to translate our accomplishments into attaining our goals. Israel is nearing the goals that it set for itself; however, further patience, determination and effort are necessary in order to achieve those goals in a way that will change the security reality in the south, so that our citizens will be able to feel long-term security and stability. We must not, at the last minute, lose what has been achieved in an unprecedented national effort that restored the spirit of unity to the nation. The Israeli public, especially the residents of the south, have the requisite patience and willingness - so does the Government!"
Above communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser - Taken from a MFA Newsletter
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POST UPDATE:
Monday, January 12, 2009
Since Monday morning (Jan.12), IDF Infantry Corps, Armored Corps, Engineering Corps, Artillery Corps and Intelligence Corps forces continued to operate against the Hamas terrorist infrastructure throughout the Gaza Strip. .Ground Forces were involved in a number of incidents in which several armed gunmen were hit.
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A squad of terror operatives opened fire at ground forces from a mosque. The forces directed aerial forces that attacked the squad, and then the forces proceeded to search the mosque, uncovering Qassam rockets and mortar shells..In a separate incident, IDF forces identified a number of armed gunmen and opened fire at them. The force later searched the area and uncovered a large amount of weaponry including anti-aircraft missiles, mortar shells and machine guns..In addition, IDF forces uncovered a tunnel while searching a house in the northern Gaza Strip, and destroyed it. Additionally, forces identified a terror operative planting an explosive device and opened fire at him.
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An IDF soldier was severely wounded and three other soldiers were lightly injured in the course of operations carried out Paratrooper Brigade forces. The casualties were evacuated to hospitals in Israel to receive medical treatment, and their families have been notified. .The IAF attacked over 60 Hamas terrorist sites throughout the Gaza Strip, among them nine groups of armed gunmen, twenty smuggling tunnels along the Rafah border, two mortar shell launchers, nine rocket launching sites, three buildings utilized by terror operatives, two vehicles in which Hamas terror operatives were driving and additional targets hit in order to assist the Ground Forces..Approximately 20 rockets and mortar shells were launched into Israel on Monday (Jan. 12); two rockets directly hit buildings in Ashkelon and Sderot, causing severe damage..165 trucks carrying humanitarian aid were transferred to the Gaza Strip via the Kerem Shalom and Karni crossings during the daily three hour long cease-fire period.
Info from IDF official website - Photo credit: IDF Spokesperson
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More news to come as Operation ‘CAST LEAD’ continues...
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God’s speed in a fast... successful mission, IDF
And in the end...
I hope you can finally achieve a
Long Lasting Peace
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AubreyJ.........
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