Posted on 12/28/2008 4:32:44 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Israel Shatters Key Hamas Targets
Breaking News
11:37pm UK, Sunday December 28, 2008 Israeli warplanes have bombed a significant Hamas cultural symbol in a new wave of air strikes on Gaza.
Israeli airstrikes have continued on Gaza for a second day
Six airstrikes pummelled the Islamic University as Israel widened its deadliest-ever air offensive against Hamas targets.
Some 40 smuggling tunnels running under the border with Egypt have been attacked, destroying a network that is a lifeline to the outside world.
Meanwhile more tanks and artillery have been sent towards the Gaza border, increasing the threat of a ground invasion.
Protests have raged across the Arab world and Syria has broken off from indirect peace talks with Israel.
Israel's leaders have said they will press ahead with the campaign to stop Hamas firing rockets into the Jewish state.
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told Sky News that there is no option but to use force against Hamas.
She would not give an indication over how long the military operation will last but Israeli tanks have been massing on the border with Gaza as the aerial assault continues for a second day.
Up to 298 Palestinians are now reported to have been killed since the airstrikes began.
Israel has said the attacks are a response to dozens of rocket attacks launched against civilians in border towns since a six-month ceasefire came to an end last week.
In an interview with Sky News foreign affairs editor Tim Marshall in southern Israel, Ms Livni said the responsibility for civilian casualties lay with Hamas.
She said: "Before the operation we called on all the population who lives near the Hamas headquarters to leave. We are doing everything to avoid or minimise civilian casualties.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...
Good thing they did this before Jan 20.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I hope Israel keeps this up until Hamas is reduced to nothing.
Doesn’t Israel realize these actions will just make Hamas angry? ;O)
That picture is an insult to animal!
Send in the ground forces, too!
"EXTERMINATE! You WILL be exterminated!"
Actually, this attack is a response to hundreds of rocket attacks on Israeli civilians in border towns before last week, during the so-called "cease fire."
Kill em all and let GOD sort em out.......screw your allah......he is just a pedophile waiting for more idiots to blow themselves up!
GO JEWS!!!!!!
Timely, and about time! If they don’t respond to terrorism by now, don’t expect any help during the Obama parade of leftys...
It’s time to not only wipe out Hamas, by hit Iran hard and often... Any chance of continuing this operation during Obama’s term is very chancy...
Do it now, and do it often...!
Kill em all and let GOD sort em out.......screw your allah......he is just a pedophile waiting for more idiots to blow themselves up!
GO JEWS!!!!!!
Up to 298 Palestinians are now reported to have been killed since the airstrikes began.The thing about killing Palestinians... you don't really have to worry very much about killing any innocent ones.
Those are few and far between.
What? A museum of suicide bombing?
Darn...I hate to say it, but you are saying things way too truthful (seems that most of the Palestinians are in cahoots with the radical terrorists). May they all meet their maker and it won’t be to their liking...
I have absolutely no regrets about the Israelis reducing their ranks!
Or a mummified piece of feces.
disinformation - the British press bit it
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