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Hamas vows to fight in Gaza "until last breath" | |||
2009-01-01 | |||
Hamas vowed on Wednesday to fight "until the last breath" if Israel makes good on threats to send ground troops into Gaza after rejecting calls for a truce and pressing on with its air assault.
The Israeli security cabinet earlier rejected international proposals for a truce in its offensive on Hamas in Gaza, a senior government official said. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said after a meeting of his security cabinet that the current conditions were not right for a Gaza ceasefire but he did not rule one out in the future. "If conditions will ripen, and we think there can be a diplomatic solution that will ensure a better security reality in the south, we will consider it. But at the moment, it's not there," Olmert was quoted by an aide as saying. "The government decided to adopt a success strategy.
Quoting Olmert, he added: "We did not launch the Gaza operation only to end it with the same rocket firing that we had at its start."
Protests earlier mushroomed around the globe and world's top diplomats scrambled to find a way to stop one of Israel's deadliest-ever offensives on Gaza that has so far killed at least 390 Palestinians, including 42 children, and wounded more than 2,000 others, according to Gaza medics. On the ground, Israeli jets continued to hammer Hamas targets throughout Gaza, carrying out more than 35 strikes overnight targeting government offices, weapon storage facilities and contraband tunnels, the army said. The massive Israeli assault has left many Hamas structures and bases in rubble and has killed several senior officials of the Islamist group. But it has failed to stop the rocket fire. Since late Tuesday, Hamas's armed wing sent five rockets slamming around the desert town of Beersheva some 40 kilometers (24 miles) from the Gaza border — the deepest its projectiles have reached into Israel yet. Since the start of the Israeli offensive, Gaza militants have fired more than 250 rockets into Israel, killing three civilians and one soldier and wounding several dozen people. Hamas has remained defiant in the face of the Israeli onslaught, vowing to reach ever-deeper into Israel with its rockets. The group has also threatened to carry out suicide attacks inside Israel for the first time since January 2005. | |||
Posted by:Fred |
#11 Did not see news yet... are they still breathing? Can someone inform me when they achieved their breathing goal? |
Posted by: Spike Uniter 2009-01-01 21:44 |
#10 Did not see news yet... are they still breathing? Can someone inform me when they achieved their goal? |
Posted by: Spike Uniter 2009-01-01 21:44 |
#9 Has somebody copywrighted "to the last drop of blood™"? |
Posted by: tu3031 2009-01-01 20:58 |
#8 Wasn't it Sharon who suggested building a canal about 100 feet deep all along the Gaza/Egypt border? It would certainly make tunneling a lot more difficult. |
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2009-01-01 16:55 |
#7 [boy I'm busy this week what with school being out and all] |
Posted by: Zebulon Theasing1746 2009-01-01 16:05 |
#6 And: I can drink pls? |
Posted by: .5MT 2009-01-01 15:50 |
#5 what... no arclight missions? |
Posted by: Abu do you love 2009-01-01 15:17 |
#4 Napalm sucks the air right out of the lungs of such twits. That's what Israel should be using against the Gaza tunnels and any underground "command posts" they can find. Of course, hitting them when they're buried under mosques, girl schools, or hospitals does make it difficult. Israel needs to go into Gaza, shoot everybody that even picks up a small stone to throw, blow up all "underground command posts", level all buildings over two stories in heighth, and lay a minefield a mile deep along the entire INSIDE border of Gaza, and pull out. Use napalm against anyone that tries to clear the mines. Line a double-wire border fence with claymores every five feet. Plant acoustical and motion sensors along the Israeli side of the fence, and use artillery to collapse any tunnel the Gazans may try to dig. FORCE THE REST OF THE WORLD TO SUPPLY GAZA WITH FOOD, WATER, POWER AND WHATEVER ELSE THEY NEED, while cutting off everything that might have come from Israel, or through it, before. The rest of the world will probably get tired of supporting these parisites in a few years, and they'll slowly be drained away. That's Israel's best bet, and they should take it. |
Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-01-01 15:14 |
#3 "Hamas vowed on Wednesday to fight 'until the last breath'" Your proposal is accepted. |
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-01-01 11:20 |
#2 The government decided to adopt a success strategy. I'm sure 100 years ago they would have found it odd that such a statement could be written. But here we are in 2009, where it seems odd only that they admit they intend to win. Alice meet wonderland. |
Posted by: Shalet and Tenille1168 2009-01-01 01:54 |
#1 Hamas vowed on Wednesday to fight "until the last breath" if Israel makes good on threats to send ground troops into Gaza after rejecting calls for a truce and pressing on with its air assault. Deal. Next. |
Posted by: Verlaine 2009-01-01 01:23 |