IDF confirms at least 20 gunmen killed in ground offensive

The Jerusalem Post ^ | January 4, 2009 | YAAKOV KATZ

[Free ThinkerNY]

At least 30 Hamas gunmen were reported killed as IDF troops swept into the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday night, encountering fierce resistance from Hamas forces entrenched in fortifications just over the border.

IDF sources said that the goal was to conquer territory in northern Gaza, including rocket launch sites. Soldiers from the Armored Corps, Engineering Corps, and Paratroopers, Givati, Golani brigades were participating in the fighting, with at least four brigades' worth of troops inside the Gaza Strip.

The sources said that a majority of the rockets fired into Beersheba and Ashdod were launched from the northern Gaza Strip.

One of the major aims of the operation was also to deliver a serious blow to the Hamas military wing, which the IDF estimated had not been severely weakened under the air campaign.

[Covenantor]

Freeper fault...maybe.

Link to original headline reads 30

[peeps36]

I think it's a combination of hate and ignorance that drives Western attitudes toward Israel. Why else would the West force Israel to create a terrorist state within its own territory? Anyone with even half a brain knows that the palestinians want to make peace with Israel by exterminating the Jewish population. Peace won't come to that area until the palestinans are sent back to their native Arab lands.