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Israel.INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "OPERATION CAST LEAD The IDF's Fight Against Terror in Gaza"

As President-elect Barack Obama went to play golf today with friends while vacationing in Hawaii, a small group tried -- but failed -- to give him a letter supporting the Palestinian cause. According to the press pool report, a couple from California and a Honolulu man approached the security checkpoint set up by the Secret Service and Honolulu police and asked if they could give a box and letter to Obama, who has carefully said it is up to President Bush to respond to the Israeli assault in Gaza in retaliation for rocket attacks. Bush has blamed Hamas, which controls...

RESIDENTS at certain addresses in the Gaza Strip have been receiving unusual phone calls since the Israeli air assault began on Saturday - a request that they and their families leave their homes as soon as possible for their own safety. More unusual than the recorded message is the Arabic-speaking caller, who identifies himself as being from the Israeli defence forces, The Australian reports. Dipping into their bag of tricks for the updated Gaza telephone numbers, Israel's intelligence services are warning Palestinian civilians in Gaza living close to Hamas facilities that they may be hurt unless they distance themselves from...

Continuously updated during conflict - UPDATE 107. FLASH - Bombing runs have begun. Just after 2AM Tuesday local time. IAF planes strike multiple targets throughout Gaza. Full text of article: IAF warplanes struck multiple targets throughout the Gaza Strip early Tuesday morning. / It was not yet clear what was bombed. The army hadn't immediately responded to the report. Prelude to a ground incursion?

Defence Minister Ehud Barak said Israel is in an ''all-out war against Hamas.'' He added: ''We have nothing against Gaza residents, but we are engaged in an all-out war against Hamas and its proxies. ''This operation will expand and deepen as much as needed. We went to war to deal a heavy blow to Hamas. Barak recalled a conversation with Barack Obama during the US President-elect's June visit to Sderot city, which is regularly targeted by Gaza militants. He quoted Obama as saying, ''had anyone fired rockets against my home while my two daughters were sleeping I would have done...

Israel's defense minister said Monday the country is engaged in a "war to the bitter end" against Hamas in the Gaza Strip and said the military operation against the terror group would continue and intensify. "We have stretched our hand in peace many times to the Palestinian people. We have nothing against the people of Gaza," Ehud Barak said to a special session of parliament. "But this is an all-out war against Hamas and its branches. The restraint that we have demonstrated is the source of our strength when it is time to fight." Israel's air force obliterated symbols of...

3d day of tracking war. 90 updates over three articles. Will continue to update throughout the day.

IAF aircraft bombed the Islamic University and government compound in Gaza City early Monday morning, both centers of Hamas power. Witnesses saw fire and smoke at the university, counting six separate air strikes there just after midnight. Two laboratories in the university, which served as research and development centers for Hamas's military wing, were targeted. The development of explosives was done under the auspices of university professors. University buildings were also used for meetings of senior Hamas officials. The IDF said rockets and explosives were stored in the buildings. For the first time overnight Sunday, the IDF Navy began to...

Violent confrontations broke out at the Israeli Embassy in London today as up to 1,500 protesters against Israel's Gaza campaign gathered in a vociferous demonstration. Campaign supporters, Palestinians and British Muslims stood on the pavement of High Street Kensington, west London, and chanted in unison: “Five, six, seven, eight - Israel is a terror state.” Riot police were brought in to control the crowd, some of whom turned violent. Witnesses said some protestors were forcibly removed and others were seen with bloodied faces as violence erupted. One campaigner was seen throwing a bag and what appeared to be a book...

Mohamed al-Ashi, 28, was in a shock as he stood at Gaza City's Shifa Hospital's emergency room watching several relatives and police officers carrying the body of his brother, who died in the first Israeli airstrike carried out on Saturday at the main Hamas police headquarters. "I pray to Allah (God) to give us patience and strength, may God bless his spirit. We lost the best man in the family," said Mohamed, as he looked sad but kept his tears from flowing, while others shouted Allah Akbar (God is great). Faris el-Ashi, a 33-year-old explosive expert and an officer in...

TEL AVIV | The threat of an Israeli invasion of the Islamist-ruled Gaza Strip loomed Sunday, with the call up of 6,500 reservists during the second day of an air offensive that sparked global protests and the deepest penetration yet by Palestinian rockets into southern Israel. Israeli bombers targeted 40 smuggling tunnels linking the Gaza Strip to Egypt, while Palestinian demonstrators clashed with Egyptian border police in an attempt to flee the bombing. The death toll approached 300 and demonstrations erupted throughout the Muslim world. The Syrian government broke off indirect peace talks started earlier this year with Israel. A...

For a second straight day, Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip took a much-needed pounding from Israeli forces. The terrorist organization's main security compound was among the marks that took a heavy beating from Israeli war planes.The campaign by Israel is retaliatory - a more-than-appropriate response to daily rocket and mortar attacks launched by Palestinian "militants" after a truce between the two sides expired last week.To no one's great surprise, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned the Israeli operation.Their statement, in part, read: "Despite the public 'green light' given to the Israeli military by the Bush administration, American Muslims...

Conflicting reports emerged Sunday regarding the fate of top Hamas military commander Ahmed Ja'abri, who may have been killed in one of the hundreds of Israeli air strikes against Hamas infrastructure in the Gaza Strip. Since Operation Cast Lead began on Saturday, the air force has flown over 300 sorties over the Strip, bombing close to 280 different targets. Palestinian and Israeli sources said that Ja'abri, the overall commander of Hamas's armed wing, Izaddin Kassam, may have been killed in an air strike on a mosque which he frequented. Sources close to Hamas in the Gaza Strip said they could...

Egyptian border guards have opened fire on Palestinians who breached the border to escape Israel's assault on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. An Egyptian security official said there were at least five breaches along the nine-mile border and hundreds of Palestinian residents were pouring in. At least 300 Egyptian border guards have been rushed to the area to reseal the border, the official added on condition on anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the press. A resident of the Gaza Strip side of the border, Fida Kishta, said that Egyptian border guards opened fire to drive back...

"OPERATION CAST LEAD The IDF's Fight Against Terror in Gaza" (December 28, 2008) # http://israel.internet-haganah.com/archives/001473.html December 28, 2008 "IAF STRIKES ON WEAPONS CACHES & STORAGE FACILITIES" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmSAp4Qt068 "IAF STRIKES ON GAZA-WEAPON CACHES" (Added December 28, 2008) # http://israel.internet-haganah.com/archives/001472.html December 28, 2008 "HAMAS REFUSES TO ALLOW WOUNDED TO ENTER EGYPT FOR CARE" # http://israel.internet-haganah.com/archives/001471.html December 28, 2008 "KOL ISRAEL" # http://israel.internet-haganah.com/archives/001470.html December 28, 2008 "AND THEN THERE IS THE ARAB LEAGUE" # http://israel.internet-haganah.com/archives/001469.html December 28, 2008 "YES, IT IS BETTER THIS TIME AROUND" # http://israel.internet-haganah.com/archives/001468.html December 28, 2008 "ONE WORD..." # http://israel.internet-haganah.com/archives/001467.html December 28, 2008 "EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER LAYS BLAME FOR...

CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - The United States blamed Hamas for breaking a ceasefire and provoking Israeli air strikes on Saturday that killed more than 200 people in Gaza, which is controlled by the Palestinian group. Washington did not call for an end to the Israeli attacks but urged it to avoid civilian casualties and placed the onus for ending the violence squarely on Hamas, which it considers a terrorist organization. "What we've got to see is Hamas stop firing rockets into Israel, that's what precipitated this," said White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe, calling the Islamic group "thugs." The United States...

SNIPPET: "Rocket range extended: Palestinian gunmen respond to IDF operation in Gaza by firing three rockets beyond Ashkelon area, some 40 km away from Strip. Building in moshav near Ashdod; air raid siren sounds in Yavne area" ARTICLE SNIPPET: "After a day which saw dozens of Qassam rockets fired at Israel, Palestinian gunmen resumed the fire on Sunday morning. Three rockets, believed to be Grad missiles, were fired from the Gaza Strip and landed east of the city of Ashdod. One of the rockets caused damage to the windows of a house in a moshav near Ashdod. Explosions were also...

Kept this article updated from the first strike. 40 updates and counting. Sunday morning there - a mosque and Hamas TV taken out. TV running off a mobile unit - until the IAF find the signal.

A Kos Kid with the possibly ironic username of “Daisy Cutter” is weeping over the Israeli airstrikes against Hamas weapons dumps and training camps: Daily Kos: Israel’s ongoing war on Palestinian self-determination (EDIT: 200 dead, Obama: no comment). "With today’s news of IDF air strikes abruptly ending the lives of some 140 Gazans, I can’t help but feel an abject sense of horror at the fact that most Americans will probably find some way to blame the Palestinians for bringing this on themselves. Nevermind the fact that it was Israel who initially broke the ceasefire. Forget the fact that Israel...

Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC) December 7, 2008 Weekend escalation in the Gaza Strip: on December 5 and 6 seven rockets and eight mortar shells were fired, continuing the erosion of the lull arrangement, consistently violated by the Palestinian terrorist organizations since the beginning of November.

The State of Israel completely withdrew from the Gaza Strip and relinquished all governing responsibility to the Palestinian Authority (PA) in August, 2005, while continuing financial aid. Since then, the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas conquered the Strip, and Palestinian terrorists in Gaza have launched more than 6,000 projectile attacks at Israeli soil, largely aimed at killing the civilian population residing in Israeli towns near the Strip. Shockingly, many in the international media, NGOs and international institutions such as the UN have greeted the illegal Palestinian attacks with forgiving silence. While whitewashing Palestinian crimes, they have fallen back on their traditional...

A Fatah terrorist in Gaza was killed during terrorist training in 2005, and more than three years later the cellphone video recording documenting the event is circulating in terrorist websites. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128603

"News of the Terrorism and Israeli-Palestinian Conflict November 18-25, 2008" SNIPPET: "Important Events The Gaza Strip Sporadic Rocket and Mortar Shell Fire into Israel Continues" SNIPPET: "The Lull Arrangement – Update Opening the Gaza Strip Crossings and Closing Them Following a Renewal of Attacks"

JERUSALEM (AFP) — Dozens of rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel hours after six Palestinians were killed in Israeli military operations in the Hamas-ruled territory, the Israeli army and Palestinian medics said on Wednesday. There was no immediate report of casualties from the rocket fire. "Thirty-five rockets were fired this morning from the Gaza Strip against southern Israel," the spokeswoman told AFP. "During the night another 19 rockets were fired at Israel," she said. The rocket fire followed Israeli military operations, including two air raids, that marked the most serious incident since a truce brokered by Egypt...

Twenty-three-year old Ibrahim Abu Jayyab sits by the computer in the Nusairat refugee camp (in the Gaza Strip) trying to call American citizens in order to convince them to vote for the Democratic candidate for president, Barack Obama." Like many Palestinians, Abu Jayyab is excited about the prospect of an Obama presidency. (By the way, the Gaza Strip is completely under the control of Hamas. Why then do they persist in speaking of "refugee camps"? But of course, we know why.) If Abu Jayyab and many others in the Palestinian areas are delighted, why are so many American Jewish voters...

Palestinians toil for Barack Obama win Palestinian students in Gaza are cold-calling US voters to urge them to support their hero Barack Obama. By Carolynne Wheeler in Nusseirat refugee camp, Gaza Last Updated: 4:06PM GMT 31 Oct 2008 For months, Ibrahim Abu Jayyab and his friends have been working through the night, calling Americans at random to plead for support for their favourite candidate. Except that most of the people Mr Abu Jayyab calls don't even know where the Gaza Strip is, much less understand why this man with heavily accented English crackling down the phone line should care about...

Palestinian Authority newspaper reported on Sunday that Arab residents of Gaza are randomly calling Americans at home in hopes of persuading them to vote for Democratic candidate Senator Barack Obama in next month's US presidential election. The article in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, first noted and translated by Palestinian Media Watch, quotes a young man from the Hamas-controlled Gaza region as saying, "We dial random numbers and try to call people [in the United States] without knowing their identity or their affiliation...." He reportedly uses "Internet sites that allow making free calls... in order to use them for the campaign supporting Obama."...

The Republican National Committee wants the Federal Election Commission to investigate the source of thousands of small contributions to the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, a committee lawyer said yesterday. The RNC's chief counsel, Sean Cairncross, said that there is mounting evidence that the Obama campaign was so hungry for donations it "looked the other way" as contributions piled up from suspicious donors, and possibly even from overseas, which would be illegal. "We believe that the American people should know first and foremost if foreign money is pouring into a presidential election," Cairncross said. He pointed to a report...

The Hunt for American al Qaeda The United States is turning up the heat in the hunt for the California boy turned al Qaeda operative, Adam Gadahn, who has been charged with treason and is believed to be hiding in Afghanistan. If caught and convicted, Gadahn could face the death penalty. The State Department along with the Department of Diplomatic Security announced the beginning of a publicity campaign in Afghanistan urging locals to provide any information on Gadahn's whereabouts, with a reward if the information leads to his capture. Radio advertisements with information concerning the $1 million reward have...

U.S. Wary Of Small Boat Terrorism As boating season approaches, the Bush administration wants to enlist America's 80 million recreational boaters to help reduce the chances that a small boat could deliver a nuclear or radiological bomb somewhere along the 95,000 miles of U.S. coastline and inland waterways. According to an April 23 intelligence assessment obtained by The Associated Press, "The use of a small boat as a weapon is likely to remain al Qaeda's weapon of choice in the maritime environment, given its ease in arming and deploying, low cost, and record of success." While the United States...

Former US president Jimmy Carter said Tuesday he was refused permission to enter the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, despite his aim of paying a visit while on a well-publicized trip to the region. He did not say who would not allow him to enter the salient, but Israel controls the main crossing points from its territory to the enclave. Carter made the remarks to reporters in Ramallah, where he was to meet Palestinian leaders and officials, including representatives of Hamas, which the United States boycotts because of the Islamist organization's adamant refusal to change its charter to recognise Israel's right to...

Petraeus: Al Qaida Trying to 'Come Back In' U.S. military officials said there will be no significant reduction in coalition troops in the Baghdad area as part of an effort to stop the Al Qaida offensive in northern Iraq. They said Al Qaida was trying to reenter Baghdad and reverse its losses in 2007. "Al Qaida is trying to come back in," U.S. military commander Gen. David Petraeus said. "We can feel it and see it, and what we're trying to do is rip out any roots before they can get deeply into the ground." Read More Militants Assert...

Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri called for attacks on Israeli and Western targets to avenge Israel's raids on the Gaza Strip, in an audio tape posted on the Internet on Monday. "O Muslims. Today is your day. Hit the interest of the Jews and the Americans and all those who participated in the aggression against Muslims," said the speaker on the tape who sounded like Zawahri. "Monitor the targets, collect the money, prepare the hardware, plan accurately and then attack," he added, without specifically naming any targets. "No one can say today that we should fight the Jews in Palestine...

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney, starting a visit on Saturday to try to push forward Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, said Washington would never pressure Israel to take steps that threaten its security. Palestinians accuse Israel of undermining the U.S.-sponsored peace talks by expanding Jewish settlements, refusing to remove West Bank roadblocks and mounting offensives against militants in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip who fire cross-border rockets into the Jewish state. "America's commitment to Israel's security is enduring and unshakable, as is Israel's right to protect itself always against terrorism, rocket attacks and other attacks from forces dedicated to Israel's destruction,"...

Saudi bank pledges $32 million to fund Cairo plan to wean Gaza off dependence on Israeli power Egypt is working on a plan with the Palestinians to supply all the besieged Gaza Strip's electricity needs and wean off its reliance on Israel for power, an Egyptian energy official said Thursday. Under the plan, Egypt - which already supplies a small part of Gaza's electricity - would increase the number of power lines linking it to Gaza and provide Palestinians with some 250 megawatts, said Izzat Ibrahim, a senior official of Sinai's National Electricity Power Co. ''This capacity is considered as...

Is the U.S. Failing in Afghanistan? It was malice in wonderland at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday as Bush Administration envoys insisted things are getting better in Afghanistan, while angry lawmakers from both parties cited facts and figures showing just the opposite. Even the senior Republican on the panel, Senator Richard Lugar, found the Administration's claims wanting. "I'm not sure that we have a plan for Afghanistan," he said. Long seen as the "forgotten war" eclipsed by Iraq in U.S. priorities, Afghanistan is in the Washington spotlight this week with the release of three independent reports concluding...

Israel has closed the Gaza border and stopped energy supplies in response to the rocket attacks coming from Palestinian terrorist groups within the Strip. Europe and other countries have begun to pressure Israel to end its blockade for humanitarian reasons, but Israel points out that it is illogical to supply an enemy with energy and food while they try to kill: Gaza hospitals will run out of drugs and fuel for generators within a few days unless Israel eases the border blockade it imposed to curb Palestinian rocket attacks, international organizations said on Monday. Residents of the Hamas-controlled territory awoke...

Five Qassam rockets were fired from northern Gaza into the western Negev Wednesday morning, just a few hours before US President George W. Bush's expected arrival in Israel. Three rockets landed around Kibbutz Zikim, while the other two hit outside Sderot. No injuries or property damage were reported. Palestinian sources later reported of a loud blast sounding in the northern Strip, the result of an IDF strike in the vicinity. Eyewitnesses said at least one person was killed and four others were injured. A short while later another Qassam fired from northern Gaza landed near a kibbutz in the Sha'ar...

Al-Qaida Finds Another Home In Gaza November 11, 2007 Target: Israel In Gaza, there is a terror group that embraces the name, Al-Qaida of Palestine. The video produced by the group, which CBN News obtained, uses as a recruiting device for the youths in Gaza. Members can be seen chanting, conducting martial arts demonstrations, engaging in tests of agility, and singing an Islamic song declaring their journey of jihad. "We are on the way to the target!" one member shouted. And just what would the group's primary target be? Israel. The video comes from Beit Hanoun, a city on the...

Hamas: We fired US weapons at Israel Terror group says it seized, utilized large stockpiles of weaponry upon takeover of Gaza Strip Hamas and other Palestinian terror organizations in the Gaza Strip utilized American and international weaponry to attack the Jewish state on Sunday, top terror leaders claimed to WND. The weapons were seized in June when Hamas took control of Gaza and overran US-backed security compounds of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah organization, the terror leaders said. "The American weapons and western weapons that reached Fatah before Hamas took over Gaza is being used by the Palestinian resistance,...

A huge blast in northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday killed an 8-year-old boy and his 6-year-old sister and injured five other children, Palestinian health officials said. According to the AP, eyewitnesses said a group of children stumbled upon a homemade rocket or a mortar shell and started playing with it. The device exploded, injuring all seven children, two of whom died later of their wounds. Dr. Moaiya Hassanain, a Palestinian health official, said the blast took place in the town of Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, and the wounded were evacuated to hospital. The Kamal Adwan hospital identified...

A year after Cpl. Gilad Schalit was abducted by Hamas terrorists, a sleeping Golani infantry soldier was left behind following an operation in the Gaza Strip last week and was only located after his unit had already returned to Israel. According to the preliminary investigation, when the soldiers counted down to ensure that they were all present, one of the soldiers accidentally called out the missing soldier's number. After realizing that the soldier had been left behind, the battalion commander immediately alerted other units deployed along the border to ensure that the soldier was not be mistakenly identified as a...

Jihad threatens of tens of suicide bombings in the event of incursion GAZA - the Palestinian radical group armed Islamic Jihad threatened Sunday to resort to “tens” of kamikazes women to make “operations commits suicide” in the event of Israeli terrestrial intervention in the Gaza Strip. “Brigades Al-Quds (the branch armed with Jihad) have tens of kamikazes women ready to devote themselves to operations commits suicide to face any incursion of terrestrial forces (Israeli) into the Gaza Strip”, prevented this radical group in an official statement.

Two Palestinians died and another 11 were injured on Monday as clashes between Fatah and Hamas gunmen flared in Gaza City in defiance of a truce agreed overnight, medical sources said. Both dead men were named as Fatah members -- Alaa Shbeir, a 24-year-old bodyguard of a spokesman for the movement, and Mohammed al-Bhasae. According to AFP, clashes erupted just hours after officials from both sides said a truce would take effect from 12:30 am following the killing of five Palestinians in the worst factional violence in weeks. Among the dead were two employees of a Hamas-affiliated newspaper who were...

A local chief in the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed faction linked to Fatah, was shot dead by masked gunmen in the Gaza Strip Sunday, medical sources said. Baha Abu Jarab, 32, who heads the Brigades in his home town of Beit Lahiya was shot on his way home in the northern Gaza Strip, said Fatah spokesman Tawfiq Abu Khossa, blaming Hamas for the attack. According to AFP, medical sources said he sustained several gunshot wounds to the body and died later. At least 10 Palestinians were injured Friday in shootouts between Fatah and Hamas. Meanwhile in Jerusalem, Israeli...

Hamas militants have enlisted the iconic Mickey Mouse to broadcast their message of Islamic dominion and armed resistance to their most impressionable audience—little kids. A giant black-and-white rodent—named "Farfour," or "butterfly," but unmistakably a Mickey ripoff—does his high-pitched preaching against the U.S. and Israel on a children's show run each Friday on Al-Aqsa TV, a station run by Hamas. The militant group, sworn to Israel's destruction, shares power in the Palestinian government. "You and I are laying the foundation for a world led by Islamists," Farfour squeaked on a recent episode of the show, which is titled, "Tomorrow's Pioneers." "We...

SLAP! was the only sound as the bullet hit the concrete wall. A saucer-shaped indentation appeared exactly where my head should have been. Soldiers standing nearby were stung by flying bits of concrete and copper bullet-jacket. Sniper - Take Cover! was about all I was able to yell before being drowned-out by the roar of the jeep's engine as my driver peeled-out. I was in the Gaza Strip, the sweaty, crusty, crab infested crotch of the Middle East. This stretch of ocean front property is the traditional border between Egypt’s Sinai Desert and Israel. Hostile since Biblical times, it is...

JERUSALEM – A Palestinian university that receives U.S. funding counts among its students senior members of the Islamic Jihad and Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror groups, WND has learned. One Brigades leader openly enrolled at the college – Al-Najah University in the northern West Bank town of Nablus – described the school as a main jihad recruiting ground. Another terror leader told WND he was studying chemistry at the university to learn how to enhance the deadly effects of suicide bomb belts. This week, Al-Najah hosted a law conference at which the trial of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Hamas gunmen stormed the home of a militant from the rival Fatah movement Friday, witnesses said, sparking a deadly gunbattle and capping a day of factional violence across the Gaza Strip that killed at least 13 people, including a 2-year-old boy. The fighting was among the deadliest in nearly two months and marred the first anniversary of Hamas' upset victory in Palestinian elections. After nightfall, the fighting showed no signs of slowing, as the sound of gunfire echoed throughout Gaza City. The heaviest shooting was concentrated around the home of Mansour Shaleil, a local Fatah...

Testimony in the trial of Chicago resident Muhammad Salah and Abdelhaleem al-Ashqar of Northern Virginia, continued yesterday. FBI Agents gave testimony focusing on items found in Ashqar's home during a search of his Oxford Mississippi residence on December 26, 1993, in addition to wiretaps of his phone and fax lines. Special Agent Bradley Benabidez testified that the FBI acquired over 2400 hours of audio during the year that they maintained a wiretap. Benabidez further described the December 1993 search of Ashqar’s home where a team of agents from the FBI photographed over 1600 documents. A few of those documents which...