Posted on 04/07/2011 1:06:09 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
JERUSALEM – An anti-tank missile fired from the Gaza Strip struck a school bus in southern Israel Thursday, wounding two people, one of them critically, and prompting fierce Israeli retaliation that killed five Palestinians.
Israel unleashed airstrikes and tank fire against Hamas targets across the border. It was the heaviest assault on the coastal territory since a broad military offensive two years ago. Besides the dead, more than 30 Palestinians were wounded, said Palestinian health official Adham Abu Salmiya.
He said one of the dead was a 50-year-old civilian who was sitting outside his home when he was struck by tank fire. Three others were militants killed near the southern Gaza town of Rafah. The fifth man was a Hamas policeman.
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Israeli soldiers stand by a school bus that was hit by an anti-tank missile fired by Gaza militants. The United States Thursday denounced an attack in southern Israel after Hamas claimed responsibility for firing an anti-tank missile at a school bus, critically injuring a teenager. (AFP/David Buimovitch)
Israeli soldiers walk past a bus that was damaged by an anti-tank missile fired from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel on the road between kibbutz Nahal Oz and kibbutz Sa'ad April 7, 2011. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
How fortunate a bus full of school children weren’t killed. I am sure the msm will be on and on tonight about how the peace-seeking residents of gaza target innocent children.
I fear for Israel retaliating when the climate in the middle east is so different.
A launcher, part of the Iron Dome rocket shield system, in the southern city of Ashkelon April 7, 2011. Israel's new missile shield intercepted two rockets in its first known deployment on Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday. REUTERS/Amir Cohen
A rocket fired from Gaza is intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome short-range missile
defence system over the city of Ashkelon. (AFP/Marco Longari)
God’s angel must have protected them.
Gee. If the Heckawe Tribe on the southern Canadian border were firing rockets into Wisconsin and killing US kids, I wonder how we’d respond. Belay that. Obama would ask the UN for help.
Who could blame Israel if they just wiped Gaza off the map?
Obama would ask the UN for help to protect the Heckawe Tribe, after apologizing for the USA
They'll be fine, its not the first time they faced off with the Muslims alone.
The only difference this time is that the United States will join in the condemnation issued by the UN.
Palanimals! And these filthy low lifes are considered “peace partners” by Hussein Obama. And Husseins Egyptian buddy El Bareidi said Egypt will attack Israel if Gaza is “attacked”.
Does this mean Egypt is at war with Israel, like the Nobel Peace Prize Winning war monger Mohammed El Baredei promised?
Because watching tank-fire from your front porch is what every old guy does.
"Hey, Merkva, get off of my lawn!"
“Hamas issued a rare claim of responsibility for the bus attack, saying it was in response to the killing of three of its leaders earlier in the week.”
Israel kills adult terrorists and Hamas attacks children. Animals.
Penalty for attempted murder is the same as for murder.
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Freedom fighters. There were no pregnat Israelis available, else they'd have targeted them. All cultures are the same.
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Thanks NormsRevenge.
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