Gaza terrorists fired six rockets into southern Israel on Thursday morning as the IDF's Operation Cast Lead entered its sixth day.With thousands of Israeli troops poised on the border and thousands more being called up, it now looks as if Operation Cast Lead will go from an air war to a ground war soon.
Five Kassams hit the Eshkol region, four of them landing in open areas and another hitting a residential neighborhood, damaging several buildings. In addition, a Grad-type missile struck the Beersheba area. No one was wounded in the attacks.
Meanwhile, the IAF carried out attacks against some 20 Hamas targets in Gaza throughout the night, while massive ground forces were stationed close to the border ahead of a possible incursion.
Among the sites targeted were the Hamas Justice Ministry and the municipal legislative building. A weapons factory, which itself concealed an underground smuggling tunnel, as well as five additional tunnels dug along the Philadelphi Corridor, were also hit in the overnight activity. A target in the southern Gaza town of Rafah was also attacked, with Palestinians reporting two dead in the strike. A structure belonging to the Gaza Strip's coastguard was also hit.
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Meanwhile Hamas is running scared. Its attempt to terrorize Israel into submission has backfired and its typical media cry of "the poor civilians being killed" isn't working this time. This time the world is waking up to the reality of what Hamas really is and what their tactics truly are.
Only if Israel stops its aggression unconditionally, lifts the blockade and opens the Gaza crossings will Hamas agree to "talk about all issues - and seriously," Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Wednesday night, at the end of the fifth day of the IDF's Operation Cast Lead.Typical Hamas lies. First Israel stops then we will talk. Not this time. This time Israel is going to call the shots, not Hamas.
In a televised address, the Hamas prime minister added that only after these conditions have been met, will an internal Palestinian dialogue be launched.
Haniyeh turned to Palestinians in Gaza. "The situation in Gaza before the war will be different from after the war," he assured them. "This is a war that divides two eras and, with God's help, victory will be ours, because these people stand firm, the resistance stands firm and because the occupation will fail to achieve anything.
"Our blessings are with all those who have fallen in battle, all the casualties and all the operatives on the ground," he said.
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Meanwhile at the UN it seems that the United States and Great Britain have finally found some balls.
The Security Council held an emergency meeting on New Year's Eve on an Arab request for a legally binding and enforceable UN resolution that would condemn Israel and halt its military attacks on Gaza.What Libya proposed is what was proposed after the 2006 war with Hizbollah. And that was a disaster. This time the proposal condemns only Israel, demands Israel to cease-fire immediately and praises Hamas in its efforts.
But the draft resolution circulated by Libya on behalf of the 22-member Arab League Wednesday night was immediately rejected by the United States as "unbalanced" and "one-sided" because it makes no mention of halting the Hamas rocketing of southern Israel which led to the Israeli offensive.
US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said the United States was working very hard to achieve an immediate cease-fire implemented by both sides, but he said Washington had not seen "any evidence" yet that Hamas was willing to end its rocket attacks.
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Maybe the world is afraid that the reality of Sderot will become their reality.
And they really expected this one to pass? Well maybe. But Israel doesn't have to agree to it. That's the rub. No nation has to agree to any UN proposal.
What is startling is that the major news networks in the US don't even consider this a major story now. It was for the first couple of days, but it has become old news, so to say. Good news for Israel who was winning the news front, bad for Hamas who needs their fake photos of dead and wounded children to garner world support.
And now for some really great IDF videos:
Hamas' Grad rockets launched and then destroyed by IDF
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Palestinian Terrorists Fire Rockets From Palestinian School
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Palestinian Terrorists Fire Rockets From Palestinian School
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As you see there is no place in Gaza that Hamas has not utilized as a base of operations. No mosque, no home, no business, no hospital, no school. And Israel is not suppose to attack these centers of terror? Not this time, not this war. The world is finally waking up to see the truth about Hamas. And I'm beginning to wonder if it has started to snow in Hell yet.
1 comment:
So they use every bit of space to launch rockets and kill as many as they can eh. I hope Israel has learned from this, don't give them one meter of land, not an inch, for they will use that against you.
Like the scorpion and frog, it's in its nature.
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