huffingtonpost.com - 1/3/2009
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israeli warplanes and gunboats blasted more than two dozen Hamas targets Saturday, including weapons storage facilities, training centers and leaders' homes as Israel's offensive against Gaza's Islamic militant rulers entered a second week.
There were tentative ...
haaretz.com - 1/3/2009
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haaretz.com —
Palestinian witnesses said the artillery barrage caused a
large explosion in Gaza City as well as a
series of blasts stitching the nearby frontier with Israel. Channel 10 television quoted a witness as saying that Israel was shelling targets along the ...
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Israel launches ground offensive in the Gaza ...
jpost.com - 1/3/2009
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jpost.com —
The Hamas government has placed dozens of Fatah
members under house arrest out of fear that they
might exploit the current IDF operation to regain control of the Gaza Strip. The move came amid reports that the Fatah leadership in the West Bank has ...
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Hamas moves on Fatah 'collaborators' | Middle East | ...
attackerman.firedoglake.com - 1/3/2009
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attackerman.firedoglake.com —
The invasion of Gaza has begun . As
the bombardment of Gaza has failed to break Palestinian
"will," now the gamble is that ground troops will. According to Ha'aretz , a significant portion of Israeli "top commanders" dissented ...
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Gaza: An Israeli Step Back would be the Truer “Success”
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Israel Moves Ground Forces into Gaza
Drudge Retort —
Saturday, January 03, 2009 Israel Moves Ground Forces into Gaza Israeli tanks and infantry entered Gaza after nightfall Saturday, launching a ground offensive that the military said would be a "lengthy operation" in a widening war on Gaza's Hamas rulers. Posted by ...
Israel escalates, ground war begins
Political Animal —
... the Palestinian Authority, the government of President Mahmoud Abbas. The move does not come as a surprise. As Leibovich emphasized, Israel dropped leaflets over northern Gaza, signed by the commander of the Israeli military, urging residents to "leave the area immediately" for their own safety. "We are trying to be as humane as possible," Leibovich said. "... The civilians are not our target. We are looking only at militants, Hamas militants." Leibovich added that Israel expects " a lengthy operation ," and Defense Minister Ehud Barak is ...
It Won't Be Short...?
Swampland —
... Israeli ground forces have entered Gaza, further raising the stakes in what has, so far, been an extremely well-planned and, apparently, successful attempt to damage the military capability of Hamas. The incursion "won't be easy and it won't be short," according to Defense Minister and presidential candidate Ehud Barak. Which sounds like trash talking to me--an attempt to maneuver Hamas into an early cry of "Uncle" and a cease fire agreement. Given Hamas's essential intransigence, I wouldn't hold my breath. ...
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Bush calls Hamas attacks an 'act of terror' —
msnbc.com: Politics 1/3/2009
President George W. Bush on Friday branded the Hamas rocket attacks on Israel an "act of terror" and outlined his own condition for a cease-fire in Gaza, saying no peace deal would be acceptable without monitoring to halt the flow of smuggled ...
Bush Asserts Israel’s Right to Defense —
WSJ.com: Washington Wire 1/3/2009
The Bush administration defended Israels military incursion into the Gaza Strip Saturday asserting that Israel had the right to defend itself against Hamas rocket fire. The U.S. also refused to pressure Israel into accepting an immediate ...
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