* Operation 'Cast Lead *
Continues throughout the Gaza Strip
Day Eighteen thru Twenty-two - Week Three/Four
Retaliation for Ongoing Rocket Attacks against the Jewish State
Israel/Palestinian Conflict
Post Dates: Tuesday-Saturday, January 13-17, 2009
This post moved on top today from Tuesday’s original posting - Scroll below for newer post
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Eight IDF Soldiers Wounded During the Night; Operation Continues
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On Monday night (Jan. 12), an IDF officer was critically wounded and two IDF soldiers were lightly to moderately wounded after an explosive device, used to target forces, was detonated in a booby trapped house. The soldiers were evacuated to hospitals in Israel and their families have been notified. The forces were performing searches in the northern Gaza Strip. Additional weaponry was uncovered while searching the booby-trapped house, which included a machine gun and a flak-jacket.
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During Armored Corps, Engineering Corps and Infantry Corps operations on Monday night (Jan.12) in the northern Gaza Strip, two booby-trap rigged tunnels and large amounts of weaponry were uncovered close to the security fence. The forces fired at three terror operatives and uncovered many weapons in the area. In addition, forces uncovered a number of additional smuggling tunnels used by Hamas. Throughout the night, approximately 30 terror operatives were hit.
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Hamas continues to use mosques as operational centers in order to fire at IDF soldiers. Fire was opened from the yard of a mosque at IDF forces, who then returned the fire. In a separate incident, the IAF hit terror operatives in the yard of a mosque.
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IDF forces spotted a number of terror operatives planting an explosive device in Gaza City and directed aerial forces that struck them. Different pieces of equipment used by Hamas, including four mortar launchers, an explosive device, a vest and a camera were uncovered in the outskirts of Gaza City.
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The IAF continued to target terrorist sites on Monday night (Jan. 12) and hit over 60 targets, among them a hotel in which terror operatives were fathering in order to fire at IDF forces, a number of Hamas terror operatives who were rigging a house with explosive devices, fifteen smuggling tunnels in the Philadelphi Corridor, over fifteen rocket launching sites, ten Hamas outposts, fifteen squads of armed operatives, seven weaponry storage facilities, a weaponry manufacturing facility located in the house of a Hamas terror operative, and a rocket launching squad. Dozens of additional targets were struck in order to assist Ground Forces, when preparations for fire at IDF forces were identified from those sites.
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Israel Navy boats assisted in enforcing the marine closure on the Gaza Strip and prevented the passage of boats that might arrive in the area.
Info from IDF Official Website
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Gaza CNN: Cameraman Captures Death of Younger Brother - But is the TRUE STORY being told???
News Video posted on YouTube by tafatefo007
Read the real story behind this News Video at link below...
Bloggers Uncover Possible CNN Video Fraud
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JerusalemOnline.com
Israel’s Channel 2 News Online
Click out their Daily News Report HERE
(Due to HEAVY Internet traffic, News Video may take a few to load)
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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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GREAT REPORTING - Be sure to click it out
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POST UPDATE:
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
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Seven Soldiers Wounded by Anti-Tank Missile
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On Wednesday afternoon (Jan. 14), an IDF soldier was severely wounded, another soldier was moderately wounded and five other soldiers were lightly injured when an anti-tank missile was fired at the forces in the northern Gaza Strip. The wounded soldiers were evacuated to hospital to receive medical treatment. Their families have been notified.
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Earlier during the day, Paratrooper Brigade forces hit a terror operative who was approaching to attack them. While searching a building in the northern Gaza Strip, the forces identified a suicide bomber armed with a weapon and an explosive belt. The forces opened fire at him, which caused the explosive belt on his person to detonate.
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In addition, Combat Engineering Corps forces, in a joint operation with Armored Corps forces, uncovered a stockpile of 20 rockets inside a house in Gaza City. The rockets were detonated in a controlled matter. In another incident, an armed terror operative was identified in close proximity to Armored Corps forces. The forces fired at him and identified hitting the terrorist. Ground forces identified armed terror operatives in a number of additional incidents, and assisted in directing aerial strikes on them.
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At about 14:00, the IAF hit a rocket launcher just after that launcher fired a rocket at Beersheba. The IAF targeted approximately 20 targets between Wednesday morning and Wednesday afternoon (Jan. 14), among them 3 weapons smuggling tunnels, 9 rockets launching sites – some of them located underground and some of them loaded and ready for firing at Israeli territory – a number of armed terror operatives, 5 weaponry storage facilities. A number of aerial strikes were also carried out with the assistance of ground forces who directed the IAF after they identified operatives preparing to fire.
Info/Photo from IDF Official Website
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POST UPDATE:
Thursday, January 15, 2009
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YNETNews.com brings us this report early, early this Thursday morning and it starts off like this... Senior diplomatic official tells Ynet that if Egyptian truce proposal fails to meet Israeli objectives, other options remain open, hinting military op could expand. Decision of whether to accept ceasefire plan or deepen offensive to be made by Friday, he adds...
Read the full report at link below...
Israeli official: Keeping all options open
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Night Strike on Hamas Terrorists 14 Jan. 2009
About Video: The Israel Defense Forces carries out a joint mission employing infantry, armor, and airpower against Hamas terrorists.
This video post on YouTube by idfnadesk
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* IHT.com has the following report early this afternoon...
Israeli forces shelled neighborhoods deep inside Gaza City on Thursday, hitting the headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and wounding at least three people among the hundreds sheltering in the compound, UN officials and witnesses said... Prime Minister Ehud Olmert expressed regret for the incident but said that Israeli forces were fired on by Hamas militants from just outside the compound and that the militants raced inside the compound to take cover, Olmert's spokesman, Mark Regev said...
Read the rest at link below...
UN outraged after Israel shells its compound
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* AlBawaba.com has the following two short reports posted up on their website...
> Report: Israel warns Lebanon over rocket firing
> “Arab states urge Israel to kill Gaza leaders”
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* AFP website has this short report today. It starts off like this...
Israel killed one of Hamas's top leaders in Gaza, interior minister Said Siam, the most senior Islamist to have been killed in the 20-day-old war in the enclave, Hamas television said...
Read the rest at link below...
Israel kills senior Hamas leader Said Siam in Gaza: Hamas TV
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Post Update:
Friday, January 16, 2008
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* Israel to Vote on Gaza Truce *
* VOANews.com brings us this report and it starts off like this... Israeli officials say their government is considering halting its three-week offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, that has killed at least 1,100 Palestinians... Officials say Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is expected to convene his security cabinet on Saturday for a vote on a unilateral ceasefire... Earlier on Friday, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni signed an agreement in Washington offering U.S. help to Israel in solving the problem of arms smuggling in Gaza. The deal is intended to keep Hamas from re-arming if a cease-fire is reached...
Read the rest HERE
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* Guardian.co.uk website has this bit of news today that starts off like this... Arab divisions over the Gaza crisis were dramatically underlined again today when Syria, the chief backer of the Palestinian group Hamas, called a groundbreaking peace plan dead and urged Arab states to sever all ties with Israel... Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria, told like-minded leaders meeting in the Gulf state of Qatar that the 2002 Arab peace initiative, backed by the entire 22-member Arab League, was no longer valid. Syria had already announced an end to its own talks with Israel, brokered by Turkey and focusing on the Golan Heights... The Arab initiative promises recognition of Israel in return for a withdrawal to the 1967 borders and a just settlement of the Palestinian problem. It is widely considered to be the only basis on which a comprehensive Middle East peace settlement could be reached and has already attracted the attention of US president-elect Barack Obama...
Read the full story at link below...
Syria urges full Arab boycott of Israel as divisions deepen over Gaza
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POST UPDATE:
Saturday, January 17, 2009
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Israel to Announce Ceasefire TODAY
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* BBC.co.uk brings us this report this Saturday Morning and it starts off like this... The Israeli cabinet is set to back an end to offensive military activities in the Gaza Strip, three weeks after attacks began, the BBC understands... Israel's leaders are expected to approve a ceasefire at a meeting later on Saturday, after which PM Ehud Olmert will address the nation, sources said... The sources said the ceasefire deal did not involve Hamas... It is not clear how Hamas will respond; its officials say the group will ignore any truce unless its demands are met... Ahead of the move violence continued in Gaza, with 50 Israeli air strikes overnight. Rocket fire from Hamas militants also continued... About 1,200 Palestinians have been killed since the violence began on 27 December. Thirteen Israelis - three civilians and 10 soldiers - have been killed during the campaign...
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Israel 'to announce ceasefire'
Operation in Gaza:
Statement by Israeli PM Ehud Olmert
Saturday, January 17, 2009
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Beginning at 2:00 a.m., Israel will cease its actions against the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip...
Read more HERE
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This is the end of this round of posts on Operation ‘CAST LEAD’ - Newer post out of Gaza/Israel can be found above this one.
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To my friends in Israel...
I hope now you can finally have a
Long Lasting Peace
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AubreyJ.........
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