I had it ready to go after peeking last night:
"Gaza Missiles and Israeli Operations Continue" by STEVEN ERLANGER
JERUSALEM — Five Palestinian fighters were killed and an Israeli soldier was badly wounded Thursday in central Gaza, about a mile from the border with Israel, the Israeli Army and Palestinian medics said.
In the afternoon, Palestinian militants fired three rockets toward southern Israel. One hit about 40 yards from a school in downtown Sderot, and 12 students were treated for shock, the Israeli police said.
At least two other Israeli soldiers were slightly wounded Wednesday night, when the operation began, and about 20 Palestinians were wounded Thursday, including a Reuters television journalist and a 7-year-old boy. Another Palestinian fighter was critically wounded in the combat, which the Israeli Army described as a routine raid to suppress rocket and mortar fire into Israel.
The casualties occurred in a week when Israel has stepped up day-to-day operations. The Israeli soldier was severely injured when the Palestinians fired an antitank rocket. A helicopter took him to a hospital in Beersheba, and his family was notified, the army said. An army news release said that seven Palestinian gunmen had been killed in the operation. But Dr. Muawiya Hassanein, director of emergency services in Gaza, said that only five had died.
Two of the dead were from the ruling Hamas faction and one from Islamic Jihad. The identity of the others was not clear. Three were killed in the morning and two more in the afternoon, Dr. Hassanein said.
Killed BEFORE the rocket attacks, 'ey?
He said that the Israeli forces made Palestinian ambulances wait before retrieving the wounded. Operations early this week, from the air and the ground, killed at least eight fighters from Islamic Jihad and two from Hamas.
In Sderot, Elias Gabay, a school security guard, said that one class was outside when the siren went off warning of a rocket attack. He ran with the children to a concrete wall used as a shield to protect them from any shrapnel.
Mr. Gabay told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz;
“Some of the children started to cry, and then there was a rush of parents, who came to the school to pick up their children."
Of course, the POOR JEWISH CHILDREN!
So WHICH PALESTINIANS are now ORPHANED by ISRAEL, 'ey, Jew press?
A day after Israel rejected another feeler for a truce from Ismail Haniya, the Hamas prime minister in Gaza, an Israeli deputy prime minister, Haim Ramon, said that the idea was an indication that Israel’s policies, pairing military action with an economic blockade, were working in Gaza.
Mr. Ramon told Army Radio:
“The messages coming in all kinds of strange ways, all of these things are a kind of smoke screen that just shows that Israel’s recent policy toward Palestinian terror is bearing fruit.”
??! Then why didn't you TAKE the TRUCE?
The former national security adviser for Ariel Sharon, Giora Eiland, said in an interview that Israel should confront Hamas with a choice: a cease-fire and a political accommodation or a complete cutoff of supplies coupled with attacks on political as well as military targets.
The ISRAELI WAY, 'ey?
Mr. Eiland argued that Israel should take advantage of the Hamas takeover of Gaza and its desire to be seen as responsible for what happens there:
“Why not create the dilemma on Hamas’s side rather than on our side? There’s a deal, an understanding to be had. But to choose it, Hamas must face a much worse alternative.”
What?
And these add-ons from the Globe are riddled with PRO-ISRAEL BIAS!
Makes you sick, readers!
"Israel examines truce proposal from Hamas; 6 Palestinians killed as Israel answers rockets" by Sarah El Deeb, Associated Press | December 21, 2007
GAZA CITY - Israel is examining a Hamas truce proposal delivered by Egypt, defense officials said yesterday after at least six Palestinians were killed in a day of Israeli air and ground strikes aimed at stopping rocket salvos from Gaza.
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue, said the Hamas proposal was limited to stopping the rocket fire in exchange for a halt to Israeli military operations in Gaza. They said Hamas gave assurances it could impose the truce on the militant groups that are firing the rockets - Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committees.
There was no immediate comment from the Egyptian government.
Despite the tentative contacts, there were more Palestinian rocket barrages yesterday. One rocket fired by militants in Gaza exploded next to an Israeli school, terrifying children. Late yesterday, Hamas said it fired three rockets at Israel, its first such claim in weeks, putting the truce talk in doubt.
See, see? What about all the DEAD PALESTINIAN KIDS?!
Hamas first floated the idea of a truce earlier this week when its leader, Ismail Haniyeh, called an Israeli TV reporter. Israel rejected the advance, saying there was no need for a truce because if the rocket fire stopped, Israel would have no reason to attack.
Same old, same old...
Israel refuses to deal directly with Hamas because the militant Islamic movement rejects the existence of a Jewish state in the Islamic Middle East and routinely calls for its destruction. Previous truces have been negotiated through Egyptian mediation, but none has held for long.
Vice Premier Haim Ramon said the overture was proof that Israel's strategy of blockading Gaza and battling militants there is working.
"All of these . . . comments, and the messages coming in all kinds of strange ways, all of these things are a kind of smoke screen that just shows that Israel's recent policy toward Palestinian terror is bearing fruit," Ramon told Army Radio.
In amateur video of the rocket attack yesterday on the battered Israeli town of Sderot, taken from inside the school, the sound of the explosion is clearly heard. Children scream and cry as a teacher tries to round them up and guide them to a safe location.
Yup, the poor, terrorized JEWISH KIDS!
Oooooooooh, sigh!
No one was hurt, but Israeli officials said about a dozen children suffered panic attacks, and one was taken to a hospital for shock.
Meanwhile, Palestinian children suffer from TRAUMATIC STRESS -- if for no other reason, a parent or relative could be killed or disappeared at any moment!
Pictures such as those from Sderot, a favorite target of rocket squads just half a mile from the Gaza-Israel border fence, have increased pressure on Israel's government to take action to stop the rocket attacks.
Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak has said repeatedly that a large-scale invasion of Gaza is nearing, but specialists and officials acknowledge that such invasions have not stopped the rockets in the past.
We know! Just WAITING!
May God condemn Israel if it does that!
Instead, the military is using pinpoint strikes to try to deter the militants, such as those yesterday. Troops entered central Gaza and withdrew after nightfall, the military said.
Sigh!
Israel said its forces killed seven Palestinian gunmen in four clashes yesterday. Palestinians confirmed six dead and 20 wounded. Israeli ground forces in central Gaza killed two approaching gunmen, the army said, and later shot dead two more militants.
Or whoever! Israel probably just OPENED FIRE at anyone coming near!
And if you think I'm believing the lying Israelis account, well, you don't know my writing very well.
Palestinians said five militants were killed. Two of the bodies were recovered after nightfall. Hospital officials said another person was also killed in the clash. A Reuters soundman was shot in the leg while covering the clashes. It was not clear whether he was wounded by Israeli or Palestinian fire, the news agency said. A photographer for Hamas television was also slightly injured."
Well, that pretty much says ISRAEL SHOT HIM!!!!
WHY does the MSM BEND OVER BACKWARD to PROTECT ISRAEL when it is THEIR REPORTER GETTING SHOT?
Huh, readers?
And, of course, what else but Zionist propaganda would you expect from the editors?
I've given up on them and their "news"papers.
"A ceasefire from Hamas?" December 21, 2007
THE ISRAELI government reacted warily at first - and understandably so - to the proposal of a ceasefire in Gaza from Ismael Haniyeh, leader of the group Hamas. But after initially rebuffing the offer, Israeli officials are seriously considering it, according to an Israeli television report yesterday. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government would be wise to explore a ceasefire with Hamas, for it could not only save lives but also prepare the way for a comprehensive peace agreement.
Tensions have been rising in recent weeks. In response to continuing rocket attacks into Israel from Gaza, the Israeli Defense Forces have been targeting and killing not merely the rocket-launching teams but also leaders of the militant group Islamic Jihad and of the armed wing of Hamas. And there have been hints that the IDF is preparing a large-scale military incursion into Gaza.
Yeah, ISRAEL ONLY KILLS "MILITANTS!"
To forestall such an operation, leaders of Palestinian armed groups meeting earlier this month in Damascus reportedly discussed a ceasefire proposal that would be negotiated by Egyptian intermediaries. Islamic Jihad, which had already seen more than 50 of its operatives killed, was willing to accede to a "hudna" - a truce - if that meant a suspension of Israel's targeted assassinations of the group's members and leaders. For Hamas, which has ruled Gaza since seizing power there last June, the central aim of a ceasefire would be to preclude a major Israeli military assault on Gaza, where living conditions for most people are already unbearable.
Yup, papers know all about the upcoming re-invasion of Gaza and the ISRAELI STARVING and COLLECTIVE STRANGULATION of the PLACE, but, oh, that's A.O.K. to the Globe.
If there are now several Israeli officials communicating with Hamas through Egyptian mediators, as reported by Israel's Channel 10, it is because Israel has a lot to gain from a ceasefire. Haniyeh says he can and will enforce a ban on rocket and mortar firings into Israel by Hamas's own armed wing and by Islamic Jihad. If so, that would mean an end to the traumatizing terror experienced by Israeli children in the nearby town of Sderot.
Yeah, this is all important because it is in ISRAEL'S INTERESTS!
Yup, bring up the TERRORIZED JEWISH KIDS!
I mean, at this point...
Oooooooooh!
One result may be abatement of the political pressure Olmert feels from Israelis who want their government above all to protect them. This pressure makes it hard for Olmert to pursue the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations that were supposed to be launched at the recent peace conference in Annapolis, Md.
Pfffft! Peace conference!
A mutually beneficial agreement between Israel and Hamas - even one negotiated through Egyptian go-betweens - could also begin a process that ends by transforming Hamas from a spoiler to a participant in the forging of a two-state resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Such a transformation may not be possible anytime soon. But Israel, the Palestinian government of President Mahmoud Abbas, and their Arab neighbors all share a profound interest in trying to bring the spoilers of Hamas into the tent of the pragmatic peacemakers."
Yeah, the spoiler Hamas, even though it is Israel's friend Fatah firing off the rockets!
I'm tired of Jew Lies in my papers!
