Israeli Troops Launch Attack on Gaza

— news.yahoo.com — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip I live alone in my office. My wife and two young children moved... in with her father after our apartment was shattered. The neighborhood mosque, where I have prayed since I was a child, had its roof blown off. All the government ... (more) AP Gaza reporter finds hometown in rubble - Yahoo! News

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Israeli forces bisect Gaza, surround biggest city - Yahoo! News

— news.yahoo.com — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Israeli ground troops and tanks cut swaths through the Gaza Strip early Sunday,... cutting the coastal territory into two and surrounding its biggest city as the new phase of a devastating offensive against Hamas militants gained ... (more) Israeli forces bisect Gaza, surround biggest city - ...

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Hamas’ Choice: Quit or Die
The Sundries Shack — ... that Israel is going to send ground forces into Gaza in sufficient amounts to drive the Islamist butchers out, perhaps permanently. This time around, Israel appears determined to destroy Hamas utterly. Regardless of what Israel chooses to do in reaction to ...

Israel Begins Ground War in Gaza
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — ... from the territory to smuggle in more lethal weapons against tanks and troops. Its more sophisticated arsenal has been on display over the last weeks, as it has launched scores of longer range rockets from Gaza into Israeli cities. Israeli officials said they want to strike a hard blow against Hamas, improve Israeli deterrence and significantly change the security situation in southern Israel, where residents have been plagued by rocket fire out of Gaza for years. Read more READ THE WHOLE ITEMRelated ...

1/5: 2009, Off To A Rocky Start
Blogometer — ... ' Matthew Yglesias : "Israeli ground forces [are] now moving into Gaza . Whatever you think of the merits of this step, I think we can take it as implicit acknowledgment by the IDF that the past week's worth of air strikes were, though deadly to the people killed or maimed by high explosive and flying rubble, basically useless and undertaken without real strategy. So far, though, the fighting ...

Senator Franken, At Last?
The Hollywood Liberal — ... Israel withdrew from the territory to smuggle in more lethal weapons against tanks and troops. Its more sophisticated arsenal has been on display over the last weeks, as it has launched scores of longer range rockets from Gaza into Israeli cities. Israeli officials said they want to strike a hard blow against Hamas, improve Israeli deterrence and significantly change the security situation in southern Israel, where residents have been plagued by rocket fire out of Gaza for years. Read more ...