2- Israel’s Battle for Peace - Prewar Updates 2008

Israel’s Battle for Peace
Prewar Updates: Israel/Gaza Conflict
Saturday, March 01, 2008

YNETNews.com has this report out early this morning and it starts off like this... Five IDF soldiers were lightly to moderately injured Saturday morning during an Israeli operation in the northern Gaza Strip... Two of the soldiers sustained light to moderate wounds, and the other three were lightly injured. The troops were evacuated via helicopter to the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba... Palestinians reported that 28 Palestinians, half of them civilians and the rest Hamas members, were killed in the operation, and some 60 were injured... According to the report, the gunmen were firing mortar shells, antitank and RPG missiles at the soldiers. Fatah's military wing, the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, claimed responsibility for firing the missiles at the troops...
Read this report in full at link below...
5 soldiers lightly to moderately injured in Gaza
Here’s more updated info by YNETNEWS.com including what really happened in the death of a one year old child in Gaza...
28 Palestinians killed in IDF operation in Gaza

* IsraelNationalNews.com has this early Saturday report... Israel’s Foreign Ministry says the Grad-type Katyusha rockets fired at Ashkelon came from Iran and may lead Israel back to Gaza...
Read this report in full at link below...
Ashkelon Katyushas Came From Iran Via Egypt

* REUTERS.com put this report out around 9:00amCST and it starts off like this... Under the most intense Israeli bombardment in years, the people of Gaza took cover on Saturday... some comforting children caught in the firing line, many saying the onslaught may bolster support for Israel's Hamas enemies... "We are living in the middle of the battle zone. We wanted to flee the house but we've been trapped since last night," 21-year-old Rami Mohammed Ali said by telephone from his home in Jabalya town as explosions and gunfire thundered outside... "Rockets and missiles are whistling by all the time and the building has been shaken by mines the Palestinians are setting off against the Israeli soldiers who are invading," he said...
Be sure to read this one in full at link below...
Gazans cower under fire, anger at Israel mounts

* BBC News...
IN PICTURES: Middle East Violence
NEWS VIDEO: Aftermath of the attack

* EURONews.net...
NEWS VIDEO & TEXT: Dozens dead in latest Israeli raids on Gaza

* IsraelNationalNews.com put this report out around 1:20pm CST...
The Israel Defense Forces killed 46 Palestinian Authority terrorists and wounded more than 60 others in Gaza over the weekend, most during clashes with Hamas gunmen in northern Gaza. Hamas and allied terrorist groups intensified their war against Israel and attacked Ashkelon, injuring several people... Intense attacks by Givati and Armored Brigades, backed up by Israel Air Force fighter pilots, eliminated numerous terrorist cells firing mortar shells, rockets, anti-tank missiles and RPG (rocket-propelled grenades)... Two Israeli soldiers paid for their units' success with their lives...
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War on Ashkelon: IDF Kills 46 Terrorists, 2 Soldiers Dead

* IC Publications...
Israeli army deploys whole regiment in Gaza: report

* MFA.gov.il...
Two soldiers were killed today in a military operation in the Gaza Strip, aimed at combating rocket fire at Israeli cities and settlements. A total of 50 rockets were launched today from the Strip, injuring 22 civilians, residents of Sderot and Ashkelon, and causing severe damage to property...
2 soldiers killed in Gaza; 50 rockets strike southern Israel

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One thing I have noticed in the news today... is the lack of it coming from those in the Arab World. Silence is Golden... and that’s good news for the Israelis and their efforts to stop these daily, (more like hourly,) rocket attacks.

Gods speed to the Israeli people
in their battle for peace
in their homeland.
AubreyJ.........
Saturday, March 01, 2008

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Photo Credit: IDF file photo