Posted on 05/17/2007 6:45:34 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
The air force continued to hammer away at Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Thursday as the IDF made its first foray into northern Gaza, sending tanks and infantry to take over Kassam launch sites.
At least eight Palestinians died in the Israeli attacks, including a Hamas operative who was killed when the IAF dropped a bomb on a two-story building belonging to Hamas's Executive Force. Forty-five others were wounded in the bombing, which leveled the building and several next to it.
Three people were killed later in the day when IAF helicopters fired a missile at a vehicle in southern Gaza that the IDF said was transporting a Kassam rocket squad. Hamas operatives said they had fired three rockets from that area shortly before the air strike.
Palestinians also reported an additional three killed IAF aircraft fired on Hamas operatives late Thursday night.
The air strikes were deemed successful by the IDF, with senior officers claiming they were impairing Hamas's ability to fire rockets despite the fact that more than 20 had been launched throughout day.
Meanwhile, tanks and infantry rolled into the Gaza Strip just north of Beit Lahiya, a popular Kassam launch pad. A small infantry force traveling in armored personnel carriers also entered the Strip.
Southern Command sources said the tanks only penetrated 400 meters into Gaza, near the former settlement of Dugit, to conduct surveillance of areas used to fire rockets into Sderot, and were not part of a large-scale or deep incursion.
Military sources said the operation was designed to take control of areas from where Kassams were being fired, in an effort to reduce rocket attacks on Sderot.
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Israel never kills enough of them to do any good. They get a few and do a lot of property damage.
NO NO NO NO! Let the palis build up a self sustaining civil war first! They might ceasefire to “kill the jews!”
Kind of like the misuse of antibiotics. Kills off the weak bugs but leaves the most industrious pathogens to replicate and rearm for another day.
It’s a start. Now if they will just keep at it till the palisimians all leave for other IS-slimic hellholes they can finally have peace.
Well,that puts a new wheel on the wagon don’t it;)
Kinda like exterminating a hornets nest, but only half way....
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