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Israel pounds Gaza with series of air strikes
Reuters ^ | May 21, 2007 | Nidal al-Mughrabi

Posted on 05/20/2007 11:04:50 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative

Israel pounded Gaza with a series of air strikes on Monday, hours after killing nine Palestinians in an assault on the home of a senior Hamas politician, and in a separate raid on a suspected rocket manufacturing facility.

Israel's cabinet decided on Sunday to ratchet up military measures in Gaza in response to an increase in rocket attacks on Israel in the past week, though stopping short of waging an all out offensive in the coastal territory its troops quit in 2005.

The latest Israeli air strike targeted the Zaitoun neighbourhood, an Islamic stronghold in Gaza City, shortly after an attack late on Sunday killed a man at what Palestinians said was a stone mason's workshop, and Israel called a rocket manufacturing plant.

Palestinian medics said a Hamas member had been shot and wounded from an Israeli aircraft while riding a bicycle early on Monday. The Israeli military had no immediate comment.

In a second strike on Monday, a missile fired from an Israeli attack helicopter knocked out electricity for about 50,000 people in Nozeirat and a nearby refugee camp in central Gaza, witnesses said. There were no casualties.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gaza; hamas; israel

1 posted on 05/20/2007 11:04:56 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
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To: West Coast Conservative
a missile fired from an Israeli attack helicopter knocked out electricity for about 50,000 people in Nozeirat and a nearby refugee camp

Now that's some good poundin'.

Regards

2 posted on 05/21/2007 12:07:08 AM PDT by ARE SOLE (Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment..)
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To: West Coast Conservative

the pali muzzie terrorists have shot 150 kassam rockets into Israel....Israel repsonds and kills a few of the terrorist leaders...

abu abbas call on the world to condemn Israeli aggression!!!!


3 posted on 05/21/2007 3:36:07 AM PDT by nyyankeefan
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To: West Coast Conservative

The once proud strong Israel now a neutered poodle.


4 posted on 05/21/2007 3:42:16 AM PDT by Joe Boucher
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To: West Coast Conservative

This should be every mornings headline... until ther are no palis left.

LLS


5 posted on 05/21/2007 4:57:21 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (Support America, Kill terrorists, Destroy dims!)
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
If you'd like to be on this middle east/political ping list, please FR mail me.

High Volume. Articles on Israel can also be found by clicking on the Topic or Keyword Israel. or WOT [War on Terror]

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6 posted on 05/21/2007 6:49:39 AM PDT by SJackson (Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything, Andre Malraux)
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To: SJackson
Go Israel!!!!!!
7 posted on 05/21/2007 6:51:34 AM PDT by StoneWall Brigade (John Bolton 08!)
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