Got worse as the day went on:
"Israeli Forces Move Into Gaza" bySTEVEN ERLANGER
JERUSALEM, Dec. 11 — Israeli troops accompanied by about a dozen tanks moved into southern Gaza today, a day before Israelis and Palestinians were due to hold their first talks on a comprehensive peace following the American-led conference in Annapolis, Md.
CUI BONO? That killed those talks, didn't it?
The Israelis went as far as two miles into Hamas-run Gaza, near the towns of Khan Yunis and Rafah, and engaged Palestinian gunmen along the border, according to Palestinian residents and spokesmen for the Israeli Army.
Engaged them at the border after going two miles in, huh?
At least six Palestinians were killed. Three of them, from Islamic Jihad, died when a tank shell struck the house they were using for cover; three more, from the Popular Resistance Committees, died from missiles fired by Israeli planes and helicopters.
Twelve Palestinians were wounded, local medics said, three of them critically and five seriously. Four Israeli soldiers were “very lightly injured,” an Israeli Army spokesman said, when their Merkava tank was hit by an antitank missile. The soldiers were evacuated and the tank was set on fire, but the Israeli Army said it would continue to operate. There were other antitank missiles fired but they missed, the army said. A squad of gunmen approaching the Israelis was hit from the air, the spokesman said.
Yup, airplane MISSILES, too! Fucking rabid pit bull Israel!
The Israeli Army said the operation was a routine effort to disrupt rocket and mortar assaults on army bases and the Israeli-controlled Sufa crossing into Gaza, similar to regular raids into Gaza over the past six months. Some 10 tanks and armored vehicles were taking part, the army said. Palestinians said the number of tanks and armored vehicles was closer to 30.
Israeli soldiers detained scores of residents for initial questioning, Palestinians said. Normally, those detained are released, but a few are brought to Israel for further questioning about Hamas, Islamic Jihad and militant activity.
Earlier today, two more Palestinian fighters were killed in two separate Israeli air strikes in northern Gaza, operations aimed at those trying to launch rockets or mortars toward Israel.
Oh, ISRAELI AIR STRIKES all over the place, huh?
I'm so pissed at those NaZionist murderers!!!!
And another Palestinian died in Nablus, in the West Bank, while handling a bomb; three others were wounded, as Israeli forces there arrested as many as a dozen Palestinians.
Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman in Gaza, about today’s incursions:
“They believe that such operations will harm the resistance and weaken it, but they are mistaken.”
