Israel’s Battle for Peace
Prewar Updates: Israel/Gaza Conflict
Monday, March 03, 2008.
... Prewar Updates: Israel/Gaza Conflict
Monday, March 03, 2008.
YNETNews.com starts us off with this report today and it goes in part like this... (Video) Another day of rocket fire begins with Grad, Qassam rockets launched from Gaza. Two rockets strike Ashkelon, one hitting seven-story building, second landing in playground; 28 people evacuated to hospital, most suffering from shock...
The rest, (with video,) at link below...
Rocket hits Ashkelon house; Qassams land in Sderot
* The Wall Street Journal website reports the news out of Israel today this way... Amid a withering air bombardment and ground engagement in the Gaza Strip this weekend, Israel's defense minister said his army was ready to knock the Islamist group Hamas from power there in order to end waves of rocket attacks against Israel. Instead, his troops withdrew... While Israel has continued airstrikes, the withdrawal of ground forces reveals two increasingly difficult balancing acts. Israeli leaders seek to weaken Hamas, but the deadly violence is close to scuttling U.S.-backed peace talks with separate Palestinian leaders in the West Bank. In addition, Israeli leaders want to damage the ability of militants to fire at Israel without launching a full-scale invasion of the Gaza Strip, according to analysts...
Read the rest at link below...
Israeli Troops Withdraw From Gaza As Leaders Face Difficult Decisions
* VOANews.com put this report out around 3:30pm CST...
Secretary Rice Heads to Middle East to Salvage Peace Efforts
* AFP.Google.com put this report out today a little after 12:00pm CST...
Israel vowed on Monday to keep hitting Gaza even as troops pulled out of the Hamas-run territory after clashes that killed more than 120 Palestinians and dealt a major blow to Middle East peace talks... "We are not prepared to show any tolerance, period. And we will respond. Our reaction is not limited to a specific operation or day," Olmert told a meeting of his Kadima party in Jerusalem... "The operation will not end before we achieve our goals and our first goal is a significant reduction of Qassam and Grad rocket fire against Israeli civilians," he said, referring to rockets used by Gaza militants... In northern Gaza, residents ventured from their homes to pick through the rubble after the deadliest Israeli military blitz on the territory in years...
Israel vows more Gaza strikes after deadly blitz
(Has lots of photos)
* Guardian.co.uk put this news article out around 4:30pm CST...
Palestinians say they know when an Israeli drone is in the air: Cell phones stop working, TV reception falters and they can hear a distant buzzing... They also know what's likely to come next - a devastating explosion on the ground... Palestinians say Israel's pilotless planes have been a major weapon in its latest offensive in Gaza, which has killed nearly 120 people since last week...
Read this report in full at link below...
Palestinians Call Drones a Deadly Weapon
The rest, (with video,) at link below...
Rocket hits Ashkelon house; Qassams land in Sderot
* The Wall Street Journal website reports the news out of Israel today this way... Amid a withering air bombardment and ground engagement in the Gaza Strip this weekend, Israel's defense minister said his army was ready to knock the Islamist group Hamas from power there in order to end waves of rocket attacks against Israel. Instead, his troops withdrew... While Israel has continued airstrikes, the withdrawal of ground forces reveals two increasingly difficult balancing acts. Israeli leaders seek to weaken Hamas, but the deadly violence is close to scuttling U.S.-backed peace talks with separate Palestinian leaders in the West Bank. In addition, Israeli leaders want to damage the ability of militants to fire at Israel without launching a full-scale invasion of the Gaza Strip, according to analysts...
Read the rest at link below...
Israeli Troops Withdraw From Gaza As Leaders Face Difficult Decisions
* VOANews.com put this report out around 3:30pm CST...
Secretary Rice Heads to Middle East to Salvage Peace Efforts
* AFP.Google.com put this report out today a little after 12:00pm CST...
Israel vowed on Monday to keep hitting Gaza even as troops pulled out of the Hamas-run territory after clashes that killed more than 120 Palestinians and dealt a major blow to Middle East peace talks... "We are not prepared to show any tolerance, period. And we will respond. Our reaction is not limited to a specific operation or day," Olmert told a meeting of his Kadima party in Jerusalem... "The operation will not end before we achieve our goals and our first goal is a significant reduction of Qassam and Grad rocket fire against Israeli civilians," he said, referring to rockets used by Gaza militants... In northern Gaza, residents ventured from their homes to pick through the rubble after the deadliest Israeli military blitz on the territory in years...
Israel vows more Gaza strikes after deadly blitz
(Has lots of photos)
* Guardian.co.uk put this news article out around 4:30pm CST...
Palestinians say they know when an Israeli drone is in the air: Cell phones stop working, TV reception falters and they can hear a distant buzzing... They also know what's likely to come next - a devastating explosion on the ground... Palestinians say Israel's pilotless planes have been a major weapon in its latest offensive in Gaza, which has killed nearly 120 people since last week...
Read this report in full at link below...
Palestinians Call Drones a Deadly Weapon
* IsraelNationalNews.com put this article out early Tuesday morning, their time, and it starts off as follows... "We are creating an atmosphere of ghost towns with our own hands, with our own policy," Minister for Public Security, Avi Dichter, told the cabinet Sunday. "The terrorists, unlike the IDF soldiers and the citizens of Israel, are a perishable product, that is to be stopped and killed," he said. "In a state of war with a terror entity we must not shirk from hitting terrorists who try to carry out a terror attack from within an envelope of civilians. Civilians who provide a human shield for terrorists are terrorists, plain and simple."...
Read the rest at link below...
Dichter: Human Shields for Terrorists are Also Terrorists
Archive Photo-Combat Photography- IDF Spokesperson
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Israeli Military Withdraws From Gaza After U.S. Appeal
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Israeli Military Withdraws From Gaza After U.S. Appeal
Reuters News Video
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Gods speed to the Israeli people
in their battle for peace
in their homeland.
AubreyJ.........
Monday, March 03, 2008
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