News reports from the biased Reuters and AP (their stringers are, after all, Palestinians) continue to refer to the acts of war perpetrated by Palestinian troops in Gaza as militants. This is fallacious. Gaza is now in the hands of the Palestinians. There is no occupying force. It is their land, they elected their own government (terrorists albeit, but their choice) - these are Palestinian troops and they are committing acts of war against a sovereign nation.
Israel Faces Palestinian Militants with Expanded Arsenal - Adam Entous
Israeli troops in Gaza face Palestinian militants who are much better armed than last year, Israeli officials and analysts say. Israeli defense officials estimate militants have smuggled in hundreds of shoulder-fired anti-tank missiles, thousands of assault rifles, and tons of high explosive since Israel's Gaza "disengagement" in September 2005. Maj. Matan Gorodish told Reuters militants had only a few dozen anti-tank missiles before Israel's withdrawal. "Now they have hundreds of them," he said.
According to Israel's internal security service, militants have brought into Gaza at least 3 million bullets, nearly 20,000 assault rifles, 430 rocket-propelled grenades, and several shoulder-fired [anti-aircraft] rocket launchers. A Western security source called these numbers "underestimates."
Oh, and check this out. He brought his baby sister with him to fire rockets at Jews?
Palestinian Rocket Explodes on Launch, Kills Two, Wounds Seven - Barak Ravid
Hamas member Kasam Masoud and his baby sister were killed, and seven Palestinians were wounded, in an explosion of a Kassam rocket as it was being