ynetnews.com - 1/10/2009
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ynetnews.com —
IDF: Whole Hamas battalions wiped out Is Hamas
falling apart? Senior IDF officer says roughly 300 Hamas
men killed since army launched ground incursion, whole Hamas battalions wiped out in dozens of clashes with troops over weekend; terror group also ...
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IDF: Whole Hamas battalions wiped out - Israel News, ...
jpost.com - 1/15/2009
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jpost.com —
Gunshots and an anti-tank missile were fired at
IDF troops near the UN compound that was attacked
by the IDF on Thursday, senior defense official told The Jerusalem Post . Accordng to the officials, the IDF responded by firing artillery shells at the ...
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'UNRWA building used to attack troops' | Confronting ...
csis.org - 1/10/2009
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csis.org —
Synopsis: The Israeli-Hamas War, and there is little
else that it can be called, has now lasted
two weeks. Israeli jets have flown some 800 strike sorties, and the IDF has pushed deep into Gaza. Israel also continues to report tactical gains. The IDF ...
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Finding Moral Light through a Tangle
TPMCafe —
Those of us who oppose Israel's attack on Hamas in Gaza, who are revolted by the pictures and reports of the mangled bodies and miseries of Palestinian children, dare not let Hamas off the hook because the residents of Gaza are victims. Don't forget what Hamas professes and what it does. Many things are true about Hamas even if you don't like the people who say them. Keep all this in your mind.
For example, here's a clip of Hamas MP Fathi Hammad on Al-Aqsa TV, Feb. 29, 2008, bragging about Hamas using women and children, among others, as human shields:
[The enemies of Allah] do not know that the Palestinian people has developed its [methods] of ...
So NOW they want to investigate war crimes?
Comments from Left Field —
The current situation in Gaza has been raging for two weeks now and all the while pressure has been mounting around the world for Israel to cease their offensive against Hamas. Yesterday this pressure culminated, as it was bound to do, in allegations that Israel has and is committing war crimes. Such allegations have common been hinted at on the web, and even here on this site, but things are a bit different when the person responsible for the remarks is on Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
She [Pillay] said conditions currently being endured by the 1.5 million strong population of Gaza “constitute egregious violations of ...
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