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| IAF strikes in Gaza enter 3rd day |
| 2008-12-29 |
| Terrified prisoners fled a Gaza City jail bombed by Israeli warplanes on Sunday, their faces white with dust and red with blood as they stumbled over huge piles of rubble. Across the territory, grieving families pitched traditional mourning tents of green tarp outside the homes. Yet the rows of chairs inside these tents remained largely empty, as residents cowered indoors for fear of new Israeli strikes. Plumes of gray smoke rising into the sky marked the site of the latest Israeli attacks. Even for war-weary Gazans, who've lived through countless Israeli incursions, air attacks and months of bitter Palestinian infighting, the latest surprise Israeli air offensive was unusually traumatic. In all, more than 290 people — most of them Hamas policemen, but also 20 children — were killed in some 300 Israeli air attacks over two days. On Saturday, shortly after Israel unleashed the deadliest-ever offensive against Hamas and its rocket squads, hospital morgues quickly overflowed. In the initial chaos, the dead were wrapped in blankets and lined up on the ground, as frantic relatives searched for their loved ones. On Sunday, 25 unclaimed bodies still lay in the morgue of Gaza's largest hospital, Shifa, their faces disfigured beyond identification. In the southern town of Rafah, residents held a mass funeral for 14 people, including two brothers, and a father and son, all of them members of the Hamas security forces. |
| Posted by:lotp |
| #6 Aswan IS a legitimate target - it supplies power to military bases. |
| Posted by: mojo 2008-12-29 17:17 |
| #5 Stop the precision crap and bomb Gaza back to a hunter/gatherer society. Leave nothing standing but rubble, and bounce the rubble two or three times. Egypt will open its borders for the "poor" palestinians, and Gaza will be empty. Annex it to Israel, and begin redevelopment. Then start on the West Bank. When Hezbullocks attacks Israel, begin by nuking everything just north of the Litani, Israel's new border to the north. Before Jordan and Egypt can mount an offensive, put a little bug in their ear that there's an even larger nuke surprise aimed at their capital cities, and that the Aswan Dam is a "legitimate target". Syria has too many internal problems right now to do much, and Iran can only fire rockets, for which there should be a nuke reply. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2008-12-29 17:02 |
| #4 Pound 'em. |
| Posted by: mojo 2008-12-29 12:41 |
| #3 their faces white with dust This will make one RantBurger happy at least. Elmu... the prisoners were mostly FATAH |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-12-29 11:06 |
| #2 Terrified prisoners fled a Gaza City jail What horrible crime do you have to commit to get put in jail in Gaza? I mean, murderers get put on celebratory posters, so who's in the hoosegow? |
| Posted by: Elmusort Forkbeard4582 2008-12-29 11:00 |
| #1 On Sunday, 25 unclaimed bodies still lay in the morgue of Gaza's largest hospital Hmm. Nobody wants them. Aren't good Muslims supposed to bury their dead? I don't know if it's true, but it seems that someone who had no respect in the Muslim community would either be left for the dogs to dispose of or shoved in a mass grave. A good sign? |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-12-29 01:19 |