"60 Gazans Killed in Incursion By Israel"
As I begin to read this, I realize this has also been altered from what appears in my Sunday Globe.
I'm tired of Zionist censorship, rewrites, omissions, lies and propaganda, readers.
"The Israeli military launched a major operation against Hamas fighters in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing 60 people -- about half of them civilians -- and sending in a large contingent of ground troops to stop rockets streaming daily out of the territory into southern Israel.
The violence, which also resulted in the deaths of two Israeli soldiers, imperiled an already fragile peace process just days before U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is expected to arrive to try to jump-start the flagging talks. Both sides indicated Saturday that the intensified conflict could cause the negotiations to collapse. That would mark a heavy blow for the Bush administration, which has made Middle East peace a top priority for its final year.
The fighting Saturday was the worst yet following a significant escalation Wednesday. In the four days since an Israeli missile destroyed a van carrying five Hamas members suspected of plotting an attack inside Israel, 94 Palestinians have been killed and more than 300 have been injured, according to hospital sources in Gaza. During the same period, at least 180 rockets and mortar shells have been fired into Israel, causing one death and 11 injuries, the Israeli military said.
Palestinian leaders called on the international community to step in to force Israel to stop the attacks and suggested that peace talks should be halted until the violence subsides. They also warned that Israel's tactics would backfire by radicalizing the Palestinian population.
"It is beyond comprehension," said Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki. "What they are doing is pushing people beyond their limits. They are creating a very strong reaction among the people, so the people will become more desperate and hard-line. Israel is not securing its own interests by this kind of massive killing."
Israeli officials have warned that there will be more to come and that operations may intensify, as long as Hamas continues to fire its rockets. Israeli officials say they are especially concerned that Iranian-made rockets began landing in Ashkelon in the past week. The coastal city has a population of 120,000, and with its center about six miles north of Gaza, it had previously been out of range of the crude Qassam rockets that have been the mainstay of Hamas attacks. On Saturday, seven more rockets with greater range and lethality, known as Grads, landed there.
"This escalation is very dangerous," said Mark Regev, spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. "You can't overstate the importance of the shooting on Ashkelon. This is a major Israeli city that is now being targeted by the rockets."
Regev said the peace negotiations had been "eclipsed" by the violence and called it "a difficult weekend for Israel."
Pfffffftttt!
Fuck you, NaZionist shit scum!!!!
In Gaza on Saturday, conditions were grim and chaotic, as hospitals already suffering under the strain of a crushing economic boycott tried to handle a massive influx of trauma patients. Hospital officials said seven children and eight women were among those killed. The officials said that of the 60 dead, half were believed to be fighters and 22 had been confirmed as such.
The most intense fighting raged in a densely populated area east of the Jabalya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. An Israeli security official said Saturday night that "a big Israeli force" had entered the area Friday and was waging "a wide ground operation." The official would not disclose the number of troops involved. But it was believed to be the largest incursion of Israeli forces into Gaza since Israel withdrew from the area in 2005 and the deadliest single day for Palestinians since 2000.
Sounds like the INVASION of Gaza has BEGUN!
Early Sunday, an Israeli airstrike destroyed the office of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, although he was not there. He has been in hiding for weeks.
The Israeli raids Saturday began at 3 a.m. with a special forces operation, and the assault continued throughout the day, with tanks and Apache helicopters using heavy fire to back up ground troops. Seven Israeli soldiers were wounded in the clashes, in addition to the two dead.
Fuck NaZionist deaths.
Who cares?
Got what they deserved!
Television footage showed desperate scenes at the hospitals, with doctors frantically treating incoming patients and women wailing over dead children. In the streets, ambulances whizzed by the remains of buildings that had been blown apart.
Tariq Dardona, 47, a resident of Gaza, said by telephone Saturday afternoon that he was trapped in his house along with 21 family members and the body of his brother. Dardona said his brother had been shot by Israeli forces when he refused to open the door of the home and bled for four hours before dying.
The family could not take him to a hospital because it was too dangerous to leave the house, and no ambulance would come near for fear of being fired on, he said. "They are shooting every single minute," he said. "Whenever an ambulance comes close, they shoot and it goes away." Dardona said four children in the house were injured.
David Baker, an Israeli government spokesman, blamed Hamas for the civilian casualties, saying, "Palestinian terrorists are hiding behind their civilians."
Fuck off, lying NaZionist shitter!
Israeli defense officials said they had targeted the area east of the refugee camp because it was one of the primary areas for launching rocket strikes into Israel. The officials said that they targeted only individuals who were involved in firing the rockets but that Hamas deliberately locates its military operations in heavily populated areas to dissuade Israel from attacking.
Hamas, a radical Islamic movement that has a military wing and a network of social services, has not participated in the peace process and has sharply increased the volume of rocket fire from Gaza since seizing control of the territory last June. It advocates eradicating Israel.
Israeli politicians have been hinting for weeks that there would be a major invasion of Gaza aimed at eliminating the Hamas leadership and the group's military capabilities. The Israeli security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak for the record, said Saturday's raid was not that operation. But the official indicated that it was an option and that political leaders would be considering it in coming days.
Hamas and other Palestinian leaders sharply criticized Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday for continuing the negotiations while Israeli troops were killing civilians in Gaza.
"Nothing is moving in the talks," said Mustafa Barghouti, an independent Palestinian politician. "They are just a cover for this terrible massacre in Gaza."
Well, the WHOLE WORLD knows what a Zionist cock-sucker Abass is!!!!
"Israeli raids kill about 60 Palestinians in Gaza Strip"
JERUSALEM - Israeli forces yesterday made their deepest and deadliest incursion into the Gaza Strip in years, attacking Palestinian rocket-launching squads with tanks, artillery, and warplanes but also inflicting a heavy loss of civilian life in the densely populated enclave.
About 60 Palestinians, 26 of them civilians, and two Israeli soldiers were reported killed as fighting raged into the night around militant strongholds in two urban centers of northern Gaza.
Trapped inside by the fighting, some Palestinians died when Israeli fire tore through their homes, witnesses said. But at least one civilian, a 13-month-old girl, was killed at home by a Palestinian rocket that fell short of its target and sprayed her with shrapnel, according to neighbors.
I'm already getting a big shitstink of Zio-prop, readers!
The web sites of these AmeriKan War Dailies are EVEN WORSE than the papers!
Palestinian hospital officials called it the bloodiest day of fighting in Gaza since 2000 and put the toll at more than 90 killed since a spike in the fighting Wednesday. They listed 150 Palestinians wounded yesterday.
Hundreds of Israeli armored and infantry soldiers crossed into northern Gaza before dawn yesterday, advanced several miles on militant strongholds in Beit Hanoun and Jabaliya, and dug in for what was expected to be several days of fighting.
Three missiles fired from the air early today destroyed the Gaza City building housing Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's offices, which were vacant at the time.
The spiraling violence in Gaza, a seaside territory of 1.5 million people ruled by the Islamic movement Hamas, prompted a threat by the rival, secular-led Palestinian Authority based in the West Bank to suspend US-backed peace talks with Israel.
The UN Security Council met last night behind closed doors in emergency session at the request of the Palestinians and their Arab supporters.
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, condemned the Israeli incursion as "state terrorism" and called on the Security Council to press Israel to end it.
Pffffft!!
Fuck that tool!
Militant leaders and commentators across the Arab world referred to the bloodshed as a "holocaust."
Israeli government spokesman David Baker said Hamas and other militant groups bore responsibility for the civilian deaths. "They hide behind their own civilians, using them as human shields, while actively targeting Israeli population centers," he said.
Israel is "compelled to take these defensive measures" to protect 200,000 Israelis living within Palestinian rocket range, he added.
I'm tired of NaZionist inhumanity and racism, folks!
FUCK the ZIONIST REGIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Israeli leaders have been debating for weeks whether to launch a lengthy, large-scale ground operation to try to halt the near-daily rain of homemade Kassam rockets from Gaza. Yesterday's incursion appeared to be a short-term action with the more limited aim of pushing the rocket squads back from the border.
Still, it was one of the largest Israeli incursions in Gaza since the Jewish state unilaterally withdrew its military bases and settlements from the territory in 2005.
Fighting continued into the night. After dark, Israeli warplanes killed seven members of the Hamas-led police force in Khan Yunis and Rafah.
The militants kept up a steady barrage of rocket and mortar attacks throughout the day, aiming at the soldiers and communities in Israel.
Israel also reported seven soldiers wounded. They were the first army casualties since Israel intensified an aerial campaign Wednesday and Hamas replied with a rocket blitz that killed an Israeli citizen in Sderot.
Kassam rockets are wildly inaccurate, but militants have fired thousands of them from Gaza over the past seven years, killing 13 people and terrorizing Israeli communities a few miles away.
After a while.... Maybe I should give up totally on these MSM liars, readers.
Maybe I really should.
Since Thursday, the militants have raised the threat level by firing more than a dozen longer-range, Soviet-designed Grad missiles into the slightly more distant city of Ashkelon, 11 miles from Gaza. Israel says the rockets probably were made in Iran and smuggled into Gaza from Egypt.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has come under growing public pressure to act. But he is reluctant to order a full-scale ground operation in Gaza, in part because stopping the rocket fire would require reoccupying most of the strip and risking a prolonged period of bloodshed.
Also, with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice scheduled to visit Israel this week, Olmert is unlikely to order a major escalation.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has been signaling to Western officials that some kind of major ground operation is being planned for warmer weather.
Hamas's armed wing showed that it was prepared for a major incursion. The group said it fired armor-piercing missiles and 44 mortar shells at Israeli forces in Jabaliya yesterday. Militant groups said they lost 28 fighters.
Civilians were caught in the middle, and several died in their homes. Tarek Dardouna, a resident of Jabaliya, said ambulances coming to pick up wounded people in his neighborhood retreated under gunfire.
Rice is expected to arrive in Israel tomorrow with an Egyptian proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza, an Israeli-Palestinian prisoner exchange, and a reopening of the Egypt-Gaza border under European Union monitoring.
Rice also will try to rescue the talks begun in December between Israel and the Palestinian Authority aimed at achieving agreement on an independent Palestinian state by the end of President Bush's term next January.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Arye Mekel said it was consistent for Israel to "fight terror that hurts its people" while negotiating peace with moderate Palestinian leaders.
But Ahmed Qureia, the chief Palestinian negotiator, said Israel was committing a "massacre" in Gaza and making it impossible for Abbas to continue peace talks with Israel."But he's still doing them anyway.
I thank the blogger who found it on the web.
The highlighted part was censored from my big-city, Zionist-controlled War Dailies.
Why, readers?
"Israeli-Palestinian clashes kill 46"
"Israeli troops backed by tanks and aircraft went after Gaza militants who bombarded southern Israel with rockets and mortars Saturday, killing 46 Palestinians in the deadliest day in Gaza since Islamic Hamas militants seized control in June.
As many as two dozen civilians died in the fighting, including at least two babies and two other children. Two Israel soldiers were also killed. Gaza Health Ministry official Dr. Moaiya Hassanain said 160 people were wounded and 14 were in critical condition.
The intense battles pushed the Palestinian death toll to 76 since fighting flared Wednesday. About 40 of them were civilians.
Palestinians leaders called the killings "genocide" and threatened to call off peace talks with Israel.
"We tell the world, watch and judge what's happening, and judge who is committing ... terrorism," said Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Chief Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qureia said Palestinian leaders including Abbas recommended suspending peace talks at a meeting Saturday in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
"I think it will be suspended," Qureia said. "What is happening in Gaza is a massacre of civilians, women and children, a collective killing, genocide," Qureia added. "We can't bear what the Israelis are doing, and what the Israelis are doing doesn't led the peace process any credibility."
In Syria, exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal described Israeli attacks against civilians in Gaza as "the real Holocaust."
Israeli officials met Saturday to discuss the Gaza violence and its implications for peacemaking. Foreign Ministry spokesman Arye Mekel said talks didn't preclude fighting. Talks are "based on the understanding that when advancing the peace process with pragmatic (Palestinian) sources, Israel will continue to fight terror that hurts its people," he said.
On Friday, Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai renewed a threat to invade Gaza to crush militant rocket squads that attack southern Israel daily.
The spike in violence came just days before Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to arrive in the region on her latest peacekeeping mission.
Palestinian fighters kept up a steady stream of rocket and mortar attacks on Israeli targets, undeterred by Israeli troops backed by tanks and attack aircraft. Six Israelis were wounded, all but one of them slightly, in rocket fire that reached as far north as Ashkelon, 11 miles from Gaza.
The bloodletting began before midnight Friday in the northern town of Beit Hanoun, where a 13-month-old girl, Malak Karfaneh, was killed by shrapnel. Hamas blamed Israel, but residents said a militant rocket fell short and landed near the baby's house.
Before dawn Saturday, the battleground shifted to Jebaliya, a center of militant activity in northern Gaza. Israeli aircraft also traveled further south to demolish a two-story house belonging to a Hamas militant in Gaza City. In that attack, a woman and baby were killed alongside another Palestinian. By early evening, 46 Palestinians were dead.
Palestinian rocket fire earlier in the week also killed an Israeli man. On Thursday, militants raised the stakes by firing Iranian-made rockets into Ashkelon, a coastal city of 120,000 people closer to Israel's heartland.
Not all of the Gazans killed on Saturday were immediately identified, but at least 13 militants and 17 civilians died. The civilians included two unidentified children, a 17-year-old girl and her 16-year-old brother, a 45-year-old man and his 20-year-old son, and two sisters thought to be in their early 20s.
The sisters and another civilian were killed by tank shells that struck two houses in separate attacks, Palestinian officials said.
The Israeli military said it was unaware of tank shells hitting houses. At one of the damaged houses, paramedics rushing an unmoving woman lying on a stretcher, her face covered with a cloth, out of a room clouded with dust.
One of the unidentified boys was killed during a series of four evening airstrikes, a medical official said.
Elsewhere in Jebaliya, a wounded man and boy lay in a gutter near a dead man. Ambulance workers took away the dead man as a youth appealed to paramedics to treat the wounded.
"Take them, they are still alive," he pleaded. Another man urged the wounded to "bear witness," or proclaim their Muslim faith before they die. The two began reciting a Muslim prayer near a boy whose lower body was ripped by shrapnel.
Tareq Dardouna, a Jebaliya resident, said a relative was killed outside his home in the crossfire that began at 3 a.m.
"His body is still on the ground," Dardouna said in a telephone interview from his home, where he was tending to four wounded people amid screaming children. "Ambulances tried to come, but they came under fire. ... We are in a real war."
Israeli government spokesman David Baker said Israel was "compelled to continue to take these defensive measures" to protect more than 200,000 Israelis living under the threat of Palestinian rocket barrages.
Militants "hide behind their own civilians, using them as human shields, while actively targeting Israeli population centers," Baker said. "They bear the responsibility for the results."
The Israeli soldiers died in the morning but publication had been held up by the Israeli military censorship until their families could be notified. Seven Israeli soldiers were wounded in the clashes, and two children and a woman were slightly injured in rocket attacks in and near Ashkelon, the military said.
The U.N. shuttered 37 schools it runs in northern Gaza because of the fighting, affecting some 40,000 students said Christopher Gunness, a U.N. official. Mosques across northern Gaza and Hamas-affiliated radio issued a call for civilians to stay at home, while militants vowed to fight on.
Hamas remained defiant.
"We will respond to any aggression ... with all available means," said Abu Obeida, a spokesman for Hamas' military wing.
Mashaal also blamed his Fatah rivals for helping along Israel's attacks.
"I accuse the president of the Palestinian Authority of providing coverage of this holocaust in Gaza," Mashaal said in Damascus. Hamas has said Abbas' condemnation of rocket fire has given a pretext to Israel's assault on Gaza.
Hamas military spokesman Abu Obeida vowed retaliation.
"We will respond to any aggression...with every available means," he said.
Journalists also came under fire in Jebaliya and a cameraman for Dubai TV, Mahmoud Ajrami, was wounded.
A health official said 35 ambulances were lying idle because they did not have fuel to power them. Israel, which supplies all of Gaza's fuel, cut back supplies in recent months in an effort to increase pressure on Hamas to rein in the rocket launchers.
Israeli-Palestinian talks resumed in November after a seven-year breakdown at a U.S.-sponsored conference. At the gathering, the two sides pledged to try to reach an accord by the end of this year. In recent weeks, negotiators have met almost daily.
But the rising tide of violence was overshadowing peace efforts. The violence could mar Rice's visit to the region next week, meant to nudge Israel and Palestinians closer to an accord.
But even when violence is at a lower level, Abbas' efforts are compromised by the fact that he only rules the West Bank, while Gaza is controlled by Hamas. And Israel's fragile government would be hard pressed to make concessions to the Palestinians while Gaza militants pummel southern Israel.
Source: AP News
Given this garbage, I may be done with the MSM press for good.
I know I keep saying that, bit I'm getting closer and closer.
I no longer buy the New York Times, and I will not be purchasing the Bosrton Globe tomorrow because there are no basketball scores!!!
