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Airstrikes rock Gaza as truce remains elusive
AP ^ | January 1, 2009 | BRAHIM BARZAK and MATTI FRIEDMAN,

Posted on 01/01/2009 12:05:33 AM PST by period end of story

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israeli jets bombed the Palestinian parliament building in Gaza early Thursday and navy ships opened fire at Hamas positions along the coastline as diplomatic pressure to end six days of devastating violence showed little immediate effect.

Explosions shook Gaza City as Israeli planes targeted three government buildings, including the parliament. Hospital officials said 25 wounded were evacuated from nearby houses. The military said aircraft also bombed smuggling tunnels along the Gaza-Egypt border, part of an ongoing attempt to cut off Hamas' last lifeline to the world outside the embattled Palestinian territory.

One pre-dawn strike targeting the house of a Hamas operative in northern Gaza killed a 35-year-old woman and wounded eight people, a Gaza Health Ministry official said

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Israel; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: gaza; hamas; islam; israel; jihad

1 posted on 01/01/2009 12:05:33 AM PST by period end of story
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3 posted on 01/01/2009 12:10:32 AM PST by OL Hickory (Where is the America I knew as a boy?)
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To: Yehuda

4 posted on 01/01/2009 12:14:46 AM PST by period end of story
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To: Yehuda

Good.


5 posted on 01/01/2009 12:15:57 AM PST by unkus
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To: period end of story

“We are not running out of targets. They are.” ...Rumsfeld


6 posted on 01/01/2009 12:20:15 AM PST by SeeSharp
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http://www.youtube.com/idfnadesk


7 posted on 01/01/2009 12:23:52 AM PST by LeoWindhorse
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To: period end of story

BOMB THE BASTARDS UNTIL THEY BEG FOR MERCY!


8 posted on 01/01/2009 12:26:46 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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I think that’ll take a lot of bombing.

But realistically, what else is there to do?


9 posted on 01/01/2009 12:30:56 AM PST by period end of story
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To: period end of story

Is the Kassam/Grad rocket fire shut off yet?


10 posted on 01/01/2009 12:32:45 AM PST by sinanju
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To: sinanju

Not yet.


11 posted on 01/01/2009 12:36:16 AM PST by period end of story
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To: period end of story

Whatever they do they better do it before Obama Osama takes over.


12 posted on 01/01/2009 12:47:57 AM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: period end of story

The Palies keep poking the bear with a stick and when it finally got mad and retaliated the whole world is surprised. Moral of the story bears have claws you stupid Palies.


13 posted on 01/01/2009 12:59:47 AM PST by guitarplayer1953 (Psalm 83:1-8 is on the horizon.)
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Explosions shook Gaza City as Israeli planes targeted three government buildings, including the parliament.

Where there were significant secondary explosions due to the storage of rockets being used by Hamas to attack and kill civilians.

15 posted on 01/01/2009 1:16:06 AM PST by verklaring (Pyrite is not gold))
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

“BOMB THE BASTARDS UNTIL THEY BEG FOR MERCY!”

And then bomb them some more until they are no more.
The other Arab states do not want the Palestinians either, other than to be their instrument of terror to Israel. So, just wipe them out. They are useless sub-human humanity that displays no signs of changing.


16 posted on 01/01/2009 5:37:12 AM PST by AlphaOneAlpha
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To: F15Eagle

Little wonder he sits on the sidelines and tries to appear gracious with his “There’s only one president at a time” mantra. Obama is the scariest figure to come along in years.


17 posted on 01/01/2009 5:39:10 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: period end of story

Bias detector goes off: Tunnel bombings referred to as cutting off “last lifeline” out of Gaza. “Ammo resupply route” would be more appropriate, wouldn’t it?


18 posted on 01/01/2009 7:25:36 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine (Is /sarc really necessary?)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

“BOMB THE BASTARDS UNTIL THEY BEG FOR MERCY!”

And then continue bombing them.


19 posted on 01/01/2009 9:03:35 AM PST by Levante
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