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Israel's "Operation Enchanted Day" Closes Terror Tunnels in Gaza By INA and AP Jerusalem---October 10......The Israel Defense Forces sent tanks and elite ground units into a Gaza refugee camp early Friday to destroy tunnels used by Palestinian terrorists to smuggle weapons. Military officials said they acted on warnings that terrorists were trying to acquire anti-aircraft missiles. Israel's raid of the Rafah refugee camp — code-named "Operation Enchanted Day" - began around midnight Thursday and could last several days, military sources said. It was part of stepped-up military activity in response to last weekend's suicide bombing that murdered 20 Israelis in...

UN Ambassador Gillerman: Israel Has Right to Defend Her Citizens US: Syria Is On The Wrong Side in the War on Terrorism - Harbors Terror Organizations United Nations---October 6......Israel's UN ambassador defended the IDF attack on Islamic terror bases in Syria, saying that Syria was harboring and supporting terrorists. The U.N. Security Council is presently meeting at Syria's request to discuss the Israeli air raid on a Palestinian terror training base near Damascus on Sunday. Syria's U.N. Ambassador Fayssal Mekdad called on the council to adopt a resolution condemning the attack as "military aggression." Syria's draft calls for Israel to...

Gold blames Lebanon, Syria, Iran for Hizbullah's offensive By JOEL LEYDEN Israel holds Lebanon, Syria, and Iran directly responsible for Hizbullah's new wave of terror, Dore Gold, an adviser to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, said Sunday in response to Hizbullah's fourth cross-border attack in three days, which killed Haviv Dadon, 16, and wounded four others. "Both Lebanon and Syria are acting in defiance of United Nations resolutions," the former ambassador to the UN, told The Jerusalem Post. "In May 2000, Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon in accordance with UN Resolution 425 to a physical line that was recognized by UN...

Hizbullah cross-border shelling kills one, wounds four Israelis in North By DAVID RUDGE One man has died from wounds sustained in a cross-border shelling attack by Hizbullah. He was in his early twenties. It is the first fatality in over a year of such shelling by Hizbullah. The anti-aircraft shells landed on the town of Shlomi in the western Galilee. (Click here for a list of incidents on the border in the last three years.) Four others were wounded by shrapnel, one of them seriously. All were evacuated to the Nahariya Government Hospital by Magen David Adom "Natan" mobile intensive...