Israel: On Ground Updates - March 12, 2012

Over 200 Rockets Fired at Israel

-- Image credit – IDF --

Over One Million Israeli Civilians under Attack-

IAF Targets Rocket Launching Site-

Terrorists Fire from within Residential Area-

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* Regular Updates and more continue to be forthcoming…

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Date: March 12, 2012 -- Author: IDF Website

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Islamic Jihad Rocket Depot Targeted in Jabalya

More than 160 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip, and struck major population centers in southern Israel, in the last 71 hours. More than 1,000,000 Israelis are under the threat of rocket fire… In response to these terror attacks, a rocket depot used by the Islamic Jihad's rocket launching infrastructure in Jabalya was targeted. As can be seen, the initial attack on the ammunition caused secondary explosions.

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Iron Dome Shoots Down Rockets from Gaza

The Iron Dome Anti-Missile Defense System has so far intercepted 28 missiles of the 31 attempts it engaged in--a 90% success rate. Overall, more than 130 rockets were launched from Gaza into Israel in the last two days, of which approximately 80 landed in Israeli soil. Video was courtesy of Ynet News.

Above videos posted on YouTube by idfnadesk.

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Israel Carries out Gaza Air Strikes after Series of Attacks in Southern Israel Kills Eight

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Israel Carries out Gaza Air Strikes

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About this News Video: Israel has carried out air strikes over Gaza after a series of attacks in southern Israel killed at least eight people… The air strikes killed at least six people, including five members of the Hamas-linked Popular Resistance Committees and a young boy… The air raid came in response to an attack on vehicles heading towards the Israeli resort of Eilat on Thursday. Al Jazeera's Keith Miller reports.

This video posted on YouTube by AlJazeeraEnglish

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Israeli Prime Minister:

We Hit Back Immediately and With Force

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- Iron Dome Intercepts Grad Missiles -

Saturday Evening - 8/20/11

Beer-Sheva, Israel: You can see 6 intercepted, 2 rockets got through killing reportedly 2 people. Credit: Sharon Ackerman

This Video posted on YouTube by mosesinspain

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Much more to come on this ongoing story out of Israel this weekend…

AubreyJ………

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Hamas Confirms al-Qaida Group Overrun and Destroyed

Hamas Confirms al-Qaida Group Overrun and Destroyed
- Leader Killed -
Saturday, August 15, 2009

The Guardian website brings us this bit of GOOD News today and it starts off like this... An al-Qaida inspired group which briefly proclaimed "the birth of an Islamic emirate" in the Gaza Strip included a Syrian national who was believed to be the head of its military wing, Hamas confirmed today after the group was overrun and its leader killed by police.
Read the full report at link below…
Hamas destroys al-Qaida group in violent Gaza battle
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* YNETNews.com reports it this way…
'Islamic Swords of Justice' posts message on al-Qaeda website vowing to avenge deaths of 24 people, including radical leader Abdel-Latif Moussa, in shootout with Hamas Saturday. 'War is on its way,' says group…
Read the rest of this report at link below…
Al-Qaeda affiliated group declares war on Hamas
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* AP has this report… Hamas crushed an al-Qaida-inspired group in an hours-long standoff that came to a fiery end when a large explosion killed the radical Muslim group's leader inside his Gaza home on Saturday… The fighting was sparked by a rebellious sermon by the group's leader, and his dramatic death put an end to the greatest internal challenge to Hamas' rule since it took control of Gaza two years ago...
Read this report in full at link below…
Hamas crushes challenge by al-Qaida-inspired group

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Good News -- Good News!
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NO CASH FOR TERROR - Convictions Returned in Holy Land Case

NO CASH FOR TERROR -
Convictions Returned in Holy Land Case
Tuesday, November 25, 2008

The FBI’s fight against terrorism funding paid a big dividend yesterday when five former leaders of a U.S.-based Muslim charity were convicted of funneling more than $12 million to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.

> About Photo: Holy Land Foundation office in the Dallas, Texas suburb of Richardson in 2001.

Guilty verdicts on all 108 counts against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development were announced in federal court in Dallas, Texas, representing the largest victory against terrorist financing in the U.S. since the 9/11 attacks.

“For many years, the Holy Land Foundation used the guise of charity to raise and funnel millions of dollars to the infrastructure of the Hamas terror organization,” said Patrick Rowan, Assistant Attorney General for National Security. “This prosecution demonstrates our resolve to ensure that humanitarian relief efforts are not used as a mechanism to disguise and enable support for terrorist groups.

The FBI first got involved in the Holy Land case nearly 15 years ago. In 1994, we began looking into the organization’s financial ties to Hamas. During the investigation, our agents traveled the globe to conduct more than 100 interviews, to sort through hundreds of boxes of documents (including many Arabic documents), to view hundreds of video and audio tapes in Arabic, and to review thousands of pages of bank records.

Noting that the FBI's top investigative priority is counterterrorism, Robert E. Casey, Special Agent in Charge of our Dallas office, applauded yesterday’s verdicts and put terrorists on notice: “The FBI will continue to keep the country safe by actively investigating all forms of terrorist threats, whether that threat manifests itself in the planning or execution of a violent terrorist act or other crimes that provide support to terrorist organizations.”

> About Image:The Holy Land Foundation, based in a Dallas suburb before it was shut down in 2001, provided about $12.4 million in funding to Hamas-controlled organizations in the West Bank and Gaza.

Fighting terrorism by choking off its funding source is one of the many techniques we use to proactively disrupt and dismantle terrorist enterprises before they strike. The case against Holy Land was investigated by one of our Joint Terrorism Task Forces, which bring together local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies.

In December 2001, three months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. Treasury Department designated Holy Land as a “Specially Designated Terrorist” group. We raided the organization’s Texas headquarters, seized its assets, and shut down its operation. At the time, Holy Land was ranked as the country's largest Muslim charitable organization.

Hamas was designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. in 1995, and that made contributions to the group illegal. The 108 counts the Holy Land defendants were convicted of yesterday, including providing material support to Hamas and money laundering, carry stiff sentences. No sentencing date has been set.

During the trial, the government presented evidence that Holy Land Foundation and the five defendants provided approximately $12.4 million in support to Hamas and its goal of creating an Islamic Palestinian state by eliminating the State of Israel through violent jihad. Evidence was also presented that several of the defendants have family members who are Hamas leaders, including Hamas’s political chief, Mousa Abu Marzook.

Read the Press Release at link below...

FEDERAL JURY IN DALLAS CONVICTS HOLY LAND FOUNDATION AND ITS LEADERS FOR PROVIDING MATERIAL SUPPORT TO HAMAS TERRORIST ORGANIZATION

Report and all images from FBI/Federal Bureau of Investigation - http://www.fbi.gov

Hamas Has Secret Ties with Obama!!!?

Hamas Has Secret Ties with Obama!!!?

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Leading Arab Newspaper Reports Hamas Terrorist Official Claims Secret Relationship with Aides to U.S. President-elect Barack Obama
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Now here’s an article I found today at the IsraelNationalNews.com website that I believe should give us all pause. This troubling article starts off like this... Hamas is claiming close and ongoing ties with America's upcoming Obama Administration, according to a report published Tuesday in the Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat. The relationship was kept under wraps until after the U.S. elections so as not to harm Obama’s election prospects. The U.S. has classified Hamas a terrorist organization... The London-based publication interviewed Gaza-based political chief Ahmad Yousuf, advisor to Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Hamas regime in Gaza, which seized power in a bloody coup d’etat in 2007. Yousuf declared that Hamas has been in regular contact with President-elect Barack Obama’s advisers for months... "We were in contact with a number of Obama's aides through the internet, and later met with some of them in Gaza," the Hamas official was quoted as saying, "but they advised us not to come out with any statements, as that may have had a negative effect on his election campaign...

Read the rest at link below...
Hamas Claims Secret Relationship with Obama Aides

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> PajamasMedia.com has the following take on the above story and it goes in part like this... All in all, it doesn’t add up to an organization the United States should be treating as even a potential friend. If that’s what Barack Obama’s advisers, with his blessing, have been up to, it’s not only an end-run around official U.S. policy but also cause for very serious worry...
Click out the rest at link below...
Reported Obama-Hamas Contacts Bode Ill

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

Israel’s Battle for Peace
Prewar Updates: Israel/Gaza Conflict
Thursday, March 13, 2008
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* The IDF website had this report out yesterday evening and it started off like this... During a joint IDF and Border Police arrest operation that took place this evening in Bethlehem... Border Police Special Forces identified several Palestinian gunmen in a vehicle. The forces fired at the vehicle and confirmed killing four gunmen. An MP5 and two M16 rifles were found on their persons. The four were senior wanted terrorists belonging to the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization...
Read their report in full at link below...
Four Islamic Jihad Terrorists Killed by IDF Forces in Bethlehem

About photo: Weapons found on the gunmen's bodies.
Photo credit: IDF Spokesperson

* Guardian.co.uk has this report out Thursday and it starts off like this... Hamas and Israel's tacit ceasefire ended today when Palestinian militants launched a volley of rockets and Israel responded with an air raid on Gaza... After seven days of relative calm between Hamas and Israel, rival militant Palestinian groups indicated they would no longer support Hamas's proposal for a ceasefire... Islamic Jihad, a group backed by Iran, said it had launched 17 rockets from Gaza as an "initial response" to Israel's West Bank raids which killed five fighters last night...
Read the rest at link below...
Renewed attacks end hopes of Gaza ceasefire
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* AP.google.com has this report... Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza fired more than a dozen rockets at southern Israel early Thursday after Israeli undercover forces killed one of its West Bank leaders, shattering a recent lull in Gaza fighting... The new violence highlighted the fragility of efforts to move Israel and Gaza's Islamic Hamas rulers toward an informal truce... The Islamic Jihad commander Mohammed Shehadeh was buried Thursday in the West Bank town of Bethlehem along with three other gunmen killed in the raid late Wednesday...
Read the rest at link below...
Gaza Rockets Barrage Southern Israel
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* IHT.com takes the story further with this report... "Hezbollah is coming," mourners chanted at Thursday's funeral of a Palestinian militant killed by Israel, his body wrapped in the flag of the Lebanese guerrilla group... A Hezbollah flag, along with Hamas banners, also adorned the home of a Palestinian man who was killed after gunning down eight Israeli students at a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem last week. A shadowy group Palestinian security officials say is a front for Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the rampage... Hezbollah has long operated behind the scenes in the Palestinian territories, funneling millions of dollars to militant groups for attacks against Israel, according to Israeli and Palestinian security officials. The Lebanese group's influence has become increasingly visible in the West Bank since last month's assassination of its military chief, Imad Mughniyeh, in an explosion in Syria that Hezbollah has blamed on Israel...
Read this report in full at link below...
Hezbollah becoming more visible in West Bank after assassination of its military chief

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Gods speed to the Israeli people
in their battle for peace
in their homeland.
AubreyJ.........
Thursday, March 13, 2008

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

Israel’s Battle for Peace

Prewar Updates: Israel/Gaza Conflict
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

* The Star Online website had this report out Monday and it starts off like this... A lull in fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip could turn into a ceasefire, an Israeli government official said on Monday...
Israeli Army, Gaza Militants In Uneasy Lull

* YNETNews.com has this report out early this morning... The Hizbullah organization has completed its military and logistic preparations for a confrontation with Israel, a senior defense official told Ynet on Monday evening, based on recent intelligence assessments... Hizbullah's preparations reinforce the intelligence estimate that a conflict in northern Israel is closer than a wide-scale conflict in the Gaza Strip. This may be one of the reasons why the IDF is not rushing into a comprehensive operation in Gaza...
Defense official: Hizbullah ready to fight Israel
IDF Spokesperson file photo

* IsraelNationalNews.com has this report...
Al-Qaeda Kidnaps Western Tourists as 'Retribution' Over Israel
Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb logo

* DEBKAfile website has this report and it starts off like this... Creating some confusion, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas insisted in Amman that a Gaza truce had been finalized. “Hamas wanted its leaders protected,” he remarked... The first denial came from Israel’s defense minister Ehud Barak Monday, March 10, when he sharply rebuffed reports of a truce deal with Hamas and the scaling back of military operations in the Gaza Strip... “There is no accord, nor is one close,” he stressed. “We will continue to fight until missile fire and terrorist attacks end and arms smuggling into Gaza is cut down. We are committed to these three goals.”...
Olmert and Barak deny ceasefire accord with Hamas - as does Hamas

* IHT.com put this report out early Tuesday afternoon... Palestinian militants in Gaza launched a rocket Tuesday that fell near the Israeli city of Ashkelon, Israeli police said, causing no injuries but threatening to upset a recent period of calm... The rocket attack came as the lead Palestinian negotiator accused Israel of sabotaging the fragile peace process with new plans to build hundreds of homes in the West Bank...
Palestinian rocket attack threatens to upset recent calm

* AfricaAsia.com reports it this way... Israel on Tuesday warned Hamas after militants in the Islamist-ruled Gaza Strip fired a rocket towards southern Israel despite a tacit agreement to halt violence... Although the rocket attack, which caused no casualties, was claimed by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a small leftist militant group, Israel said Hamas was responsible...
Israel warns Hamas after Gaza rocket attack

* NETNews.com put out this midafternoon UPDATE... Now it's official: Despite Olmert's denials, defense official confirms agreement between Hamas, Israel worked out via Egyptian mediation; Israel to refrain from massive Gaza attacks in exchange for end to rocket fire...
Read the full report at link below..
Senior security official confirms lull agreement with Hamas

* IsraelNationalNews.com reports it this way...
MK Slams Tacit Ceasefire Agreement With Hamas

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Gods speed to the Israeli people
in their battle for peace
in their homeland.
AubreyJ.........
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
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* Emergency Call, March 7, Jerusalem *

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About Video: (Warning-Graphic photos) A young frightened boy calls the Israeli emergency services after a Palestinian terrorist entered the religious school of Merkaz Harav and started shooting. 8 died, 11 more were wounded in shooting.
Video posted on YouTube by AtiyaRachel
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9- Israel’s Battle for Peace - Prewar Updates 2008

Israel’s Battle for Peace
Prewar Updates: Israel/Gaza Conflict
Saturday, March 08, 2008 ...

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Let’s get the day started off with this report from Telegraph.co.uk...
Israeli officials believe Iranian support for Hamas is behind the increasing number of terrorist attacks - including Thursday's deadly shooting in Jerusalem.
>> Hamas 'plotted the seminary bloodbath’
>> Thousands join in silent grief at Israeli funerals
>> Massacre fuels fears of another Intifada
Their warnings that Hamas' use of stronger rockets and larger-scale incursions into Israel represent the escalation of a proxy war were echoed on Friday by Jordan's King Abdullah... "Those in the Iranian government that are pursuing this policy have hijacked the Palestinian corps," he said in Washington... "The failure of the peace process will get them to increase their ambitions in the region."...
Read the full report at link below...
Iran supports Hamas violence, says Israel
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* IHT.com has this short report today...
Six underground tunnels used to smuggle weapons and contraband between Egypt and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip were detected and destroyed, Egyptian authorities said on Saturday...
Egypt discovers and destroys six smuggling tunnels
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* Reuters.com reports...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on Saturday for talks with Israel despite a surge of violence and said that a just peace was his people's goal... "We condemn all the attacks, we demand peace and we are determined to make peace, and there is no other path but the path of peace based on international justice," Abbas told a rally at his headquarters...
Abbas demands peace after surge of Mideast killing

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* NETNews.com has this report out this afternoon...
'Just as we achieved deterrence against Hizbullah, which hasn't dared to fire a single rocket in a year and a half – so we will achieve deterrence against the terror organizations,' vows Prime Minister Ehud Olmert following Thursday's terror attack in Jerusalem...

Read the rest at link below...
Olmert vows to achieve deterrence against terror groups

MFA File Photo- EHUD OLMERT

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There’s one thing I’ve noticed about today...
* Silence *
Something Heavy Fisted is fixing to go down, I’d say.

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Gods speed to the Israeli people
in their battle for peace
in their homeland.
AubreyJ.........
Saturday, March 08, 2008

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

Israel’s Battle for Peace
Prewar Updates: Israel/Gaza Conflict
Friday, March 07, 2008

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About photo: Bloodstained prayer shawls in the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva library after terror shooting in which 8 were killedPhoto Credit: GPO/Avi Ohayon
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Celebration was the reaction in Gaza over the murder of 8 and wounding of 11 Israeli Students Thursday evening.
Gaza's streets filled with joyous crowds of thousands... following the terror attack at a Jerusalem rabbinical seminary...

In mosques in Gaza City and northern Gaza, many residents went to perform the prayers of thanksgiving.

Armed men fired in the air in celebration and others passed out sweets to passersby.

(Taken in part from a news article on the MFA website)
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MFA response to terror shooting in Jerusalem

Tonight’s murder [Thursday] of yeshiva students during a religious event expresses at its most deplorable the fundamentalist-extremist foundations, in the name of which Palestinian terrorism operates. Israel will never allow terrorism to achieve its goals. Such abominable terrorist attacks must strengthen the free world’s understanding of the nature of the terrorist threat. A clear, decisive and uncompromising stand is necessary against such terrorism.

Israel is at the forefront of the struggle against terrorism and will continue to defend its citizens, who are exposed to this threat on a daily basis. Israel expects the nations of the world to support it in its war against those who murder students, women and children, by any means and with respect for neither place nor target.

(Communicated by the Foreign Ministry Spokesman)...

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* Guardian.co.uk starts us off this early Friday morning with a news article on the eight Israelis killed in Jerusalem last night...
A double act of revenge: carefully planned atrocity strikes at Israel's spiritual heart

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* YNETNews.com has this update... Residents of east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber say shooter who killed eight students at Jerusalem seminary Thursday was arrested by Israel four months ago, released two months later; his house demolished Friday morning...
Terrorist worked as driver at yeshiva
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* BBC.co.uk is reporting... Thousands of people have gathered at a Jewish religious college in Jerusalem where a gunman killed eight people and injured nine on Thursday evening...
Mourners gather at Israeli school (Has lots of info, photos and videos)
...* CNN.com reports... Authorities closed the Palestinian territories Friday, a day after a gunman from East Jerusalem opened fire at a Jewish seminary school, killing eight students...
Palestinian territories closed; seminary shooter named

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* FoxNews.com reports... Thousands gathered to mourn eight yeshiva students killed after a Palestinian gunman went on a shooting rampage at a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem, as Hamas backtracked on its claim of responsibility for the massacre.
Thousands Mourn Massacre at Jerusalem Seminary; Hamas Backtracks on Responsibility Claim

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Gods speed to the Israeli people
in their battle for peace
in their homeland.A
ubreyJ.........
Friday, March 07, 2008

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

Israel’s Battle for Peace
Prewar Updates: Israel/Gaza ConflictThursday, March 06, 2008

IMEMC.org starts us off today with a report from Wednesday... The Israeli army Southern Division Command convened on Wednesday for a debriefing session regarding the three day military offensive conducted over the weekend, targeting the Gaza Strip...
Read this report in full HERE

File Photo by IMEMC.org

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Gaza: IDF Soldier Killed During Routine Patrol(Following report from IDF website - 3-06-08)

An IDF soldier was killed this morning during a routine patrol along the security fence in the central Gaza Strip, near the Israeli town of Kissufim. The soldier, who served as a tracker, was killed when an explosive device was detonated near the jeep in which he was seated. Another soldier was severely injured and two other soldiers were lightly injured during the incident. The three were evacuated to the Soroka hospital in Beersheba to receive medical treatment. The families of the soldiers have been notified.

Since the early morning, nine Qassam rockets have been fired towards Israel. During today’s operations, the IDF hit a terror operative involved in the launching of Qassam rockets this morning.

File photo by IDF Spokesperson

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Terrorist Infiltrates Jerusalem Yeshiva and Embark On Shooting Spree, Murdering at least Eight Israelis

* YNETNews.com put this report out during the early evening, Israel time, and it starts off like this... One terrorist infiltrated a rabbinical seminary at the entrance of Jerusalem and opened fire after nightfall Thursday, police said. The ZAKA emergency response service has confirmed at least eight people have been killed in addition to the terrorist...

Report: 8 killed in Jerusalem terror attack

.* IsraelNationalNews.com has this take on the story... Two Arab terrorists infiltrated Jerusalem's Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva at around 8:30 Thursday night and murdered eight Jews. At least six people have been wounded; three are in critical condition and a fourth victim was wounded moderately... The attackers entered from two separate entrances to the yeshiva and opened fire on the students before one of them was gunned down himself by an armed civilian. Witnesses say that the attack began in the seminary's library... The second terrorist hid in the yeshiva building, with subsequent reports indicating that the attacker was killed by responding security forces...
Arab Terrorists Attack Jerusalem's Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva: 8 Dead

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* BBC.co.uk...
In pictures: Israel seminary attack

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* IsraelNationalNews.com brings us this report...
WARNING: The link/article below includes VERY Graphic Content
Arab Terrorist Attacks Jerusalem's Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva: 8 Dead

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President Bush Condemns Terrorist Attack in Israel

I condemn in the strongest possible terms the terrorist attack in Jerusalem that targeted innocent students at the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva. This barbaric and vicious attack on innocent civilians deserves the condemnation of every nation.

I have just spoken with Prime Minister Olmert to extend my deepest condolences to the victims, their families, and to the people of Israel. I told him the United States stands firmly with Israel in the face of this terrible attack.

From a White House Press Release - Office of the Press Secretary - March 6, 2008

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* Gunmen Attack Israeli School *

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Video posted on LiveLeak by barnesy
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Gods speed to the Israeli people
in their battle for peace
in their homeland.
AubreyJ.........
Thursday, March 06, 2008

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

Israel’s Battle for Peace
Prewar Updates: Israel/Gaza Conflict
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

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...IsraelNationalNews.com has this report out today and it starts off like this... The Security Cabinet decided in a longer-than-usual meeting Wednesday to put an end to the rocket and mortar attacks fired by Gaza terrorists at Israel... The resolution adopted by the cabinet included a decision to destroy the Hamas regime in Gaza, while continuing to negotiate a final status agreement with Palestinian Authority Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas... The resolution included a decision to coordinate with Egypt the efforts to topple Hamas...
Read the rest at link below...
Security Cabinet Decides: End All Rocket Attacks from Gaza

* DEBKAfile.com has this take on it...
Exclusive: Israeli cabinet okays Hamas, Jihad Islami targets for attack

File photo by IDF Spokesperson
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Gods speed to the Israeli people
in their battle for peace
in their homeland.
AubreyJ.........
Wednesday, March 05, 2008

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

Israel’s Battle for Peace
Prewar Updates: Israel/Gaza Conflict
Tuesday, March 04, 2008

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YNETNews.com gets us started off this early Tuesday morning with this report... Color Red alert system activated at around 6 am Tuesday, followed by rocket striking empty house; building sustains heavy damage. Meanwhile, IDF strikes and hits two Qassam launching cells in northern Gaza Strip...
Read the rest at link below...
Qassam hits house in Sderot; no injuries

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* HAARETZ.com has this report... Legal experts in the government say it is difficult to decide whether Israel can move Palestinian civilians from areas in the northern Gaza Strip where rockets are fired against Israel. They say international law is based on precedents, and in Israel's case the matter is in many ways unprecedented... Defense Minister Ehud Barak had requested legal advice from Attorney General Menachem Mazuz and the military advocate general on the possibility of moving Palestinian civilians from the rocket-launching areas... The idea would be to give the Israel Defense Forces greater room to maneuver and target rocket crews without endangering civilians...
Read the full report at link below...
Barak seeks legal okay to move Gazan civilians from homes

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* TimesOnline.co.uk put this report up around 8:00am CST this morning... Israel today threatened to reoccupy the Gaza Strip unless Hamas halted rocket attacks from the territory, as Condoleezza Rice appealed for Israeli and Palestinian leaders to return to the negotiating table... As the US Secretary of State began a visit to the region, Tzipi Livni, the Foreign Minister, said that Israel had pulled out of Gaza in 2005 "not in order to come back - but we might find ourselves in a situation where we have no choice." ... "We cannot afford this kind of extreme Islamic state controlled by Hamas," she said, in a statement...
Read the full report at link below...
Israeli minister threatens Gaza reoccupation
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* JPOST.com reported Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni remarks this way... Israel has informed foreign diplomats that it would reoccupy Hamas-ruled Gaza if necessary, though it prefers not to do so...
Read the rest at link below...
Livni: If necessary, Israel will reoccupy the Gaza Strip

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* MonstersAndCritics.com reports...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah Tuesday, but failed to get the Palestinian leader to commit to a date for the restart of peace talks with Israel, frozen on Sunday in the wake of the worst violence between the sides in decades...Although he did not name a date for their resumption, Abbas said he remained committed to the talks...
Full article at link below...
Rice fails to get Abbas to name date for restart of talks.

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Livni BIO photo by MFA.gov.il

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Gods speed to the Israeli people
in their battle for peace
in their homeland.
AubreyJ.........
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
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4- Israel’s Battle for Peace - Prewar Updates 2008

Israel’s Battle for Peace
Prewar Updates: Israel/Gaza Conflict
Monday, March 03, 2008.

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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
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* 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

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

Israel’s Battle for Peace
Prewar Updates: Israel/Gaza Conflict
Sunday, March 02, 2008

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NWHerald.com started us off this early morning, (12:50am CST,) with the following report... Israeli troops turned heavy firepower on rocket squads bombarding southern Israel Saturday, killing 54 Palestinians in the deadliest day in Gaza since Hamas seized control in June... Two Israeli soldiers were killed and seven were wounded in the clashes, the military said...
Read this report in full at link below...
Israeli Strikes Kill 54 in Gaza

*IsraelNationalNews.com has this early morning report... The Israel Air Force demolished the office of Hamas PA Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in a Gaza air strike Sunday morning... The Hamas chief’s office was razed by three missiles from IAF helicopters during the pre-dawn hours...
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Haniyeh's Office Hit by IAF

*WBOC.com... 9:43am CST
Egypt opens border with Gaza to move wounded Palestinians to hospitals

*The Times Of India website... 10:00am CST
The Hamas-run administration in the Gaza Strip on Sunday called for the formation of an emergency Palestinian unity government after a massive Israeli incursion killed 70 people...

Hamas calls for emergency unity government

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*YNETNews.com had this report out this afternoon around 3:00pm CST...
"The time has come for actions," Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Sunday during a meeting with IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi, Shin Bet Director Yuval Diskin, and other senior security officials... Barak said that Hamas' ongoing attacks left Israel with no choice but to respond. "Hamas bears the responsibility and it will pay the price," he said... "We disengaged from Gaza, we uprooted communities and Israelis from their homes just so there would be quiet for the Gaza vicinity towns – these are painful concessions that we have made for peace and Hamas continues its attacks," said Barak at the security meeting, held in his office...
Barak: Time for action, things will change

Photo Credit: IDF file photo
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The Hamas' true message to Israelis:
We want you dead

Don’t allow yourself to be fooled by their media manipulation of woman and children... the Hamas’ true message to Israelis is unequivocally clear:

"You are our target - We want you dead."

Israel's goals are also clear - Staying alive.

On the same day in which the Hamas staged its "peaceful" propaganda march of women and children toward Israel's border crossings (26 Feb 2008), the Hamas' official website featured a poster, portraying its gunmen in battle dress, declaring in English and Hebrew "Death is Coming", and depicting Israeli casualties in the background.

As Hamas continues in its rocket campaign against Israel’s cities, it has also stepped up its PR campaign to explain to Israeli civilians that Hamas wants them dead.

Here are three posters, displayed prominently on Hamas web sites, with captions that leave no room for misunderstandings.

Top Poster from Hamas' official website - Other three from official website of Hamas' armed wing, the "al-Qassam Brigades" - Above post taken from a MFA Newsletter that was compiled by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC)
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Gods speed to the Israeli people
in their battle for peace
in their homeland.
AubreyJ.........
Sunday, March 02, 2008