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GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 7/20/06 - Beirut, Lebanon, Aukar, Burj Barajneh, Dahyieh Junibiya, Ghazie, Nabi Sheet, Bekaa Valley, Soer, Zahle, Kiryat Shmona, Rosh Hanikra, Shlomi, Avivim, Safed, Haifa, Nahariya, Nazareth, Rafah, Gaza City Israeli Response to Hamas and Hizb'allah terror using Iranian and Syrian technology BREAKING: Beirut, Lebanon - US Marines bring grateful and happy evacuees out BREAKING: Aukar - U.S. embassy security position at the former U.S. Embassy which was bombed in the '80s BREAKING: Burj Barajneh southern suburb - precision Israeli retaliation BREAKING: Beirut - Hizb'allah-stronghold taken out BREAKING: Dahyieh Junibiya - precision Israeli...

2 hours ago GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israeli aircraft sent missiles tearing through the office of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Sunday in an unmistakable message to his ruling Hamas group to free an Israeli soldier. Defense Minister Amir Peretz told a Cabinet meeting that Israel would go after "higher-caliber targets" in the future _ a reference to senior Hamas officials inside and outside the Palestinian territories, a high-ranking political official said. Israeli aircraft, tanks and naval gunboats have been pounding Gaza for the past week in an effort to win the freedom of Cpl. Gilad Shalit, who...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - An apparent attempt to assassinate Gaza's intelligence chief with a bomb planted at his headquarters Saturday heightened tensions between President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction and the Islamic militant group Hamas. Hours after the explosion, Israeli warplanes fired missiles at a car in Gaza City and killed Mohammed Dadouh, top military commander of the small militant group Islamic Jihad, Palestinian officials said. Three others traveling in a car behind Dadouh's - a mother, her 5-year-old son and the child's grandmother - also were killed. The army said Dadouh was responsible for firing rockets at Israeli towns....

At least one person was killed and two were wounded in a large explosion in Gaza City on Sunday afternoon, Palestinian witnesses said. Ambulances were rushing to the scene. Dr. Moaiya Hassanain, a Palestinian hospital official, identified the dead man as a Mohammed Abdel-Al, 22, of Gaza City. The victim was said to be a member of the Palestinian Resistance Committees. The IDF denied any involvement. The military did not rule out the possibility that it was a work accident, and that a bomb in the car had exploded prematurely. Tawfiq Abu Khoussa, spokesman for the Palestinian Interior Ministry, said...

GAZA CITY, Gaza City - Palestinian militants fired three homemade rockets into southern Israel on Tuesday and Hamas threatened a suicide bombing in retaliation for Israel's latest airstrike in Gaza, which killed two militants from the Islamic group. The Israeli army said there were no injuries or damage from the rockets, which were fired from Gaza. It was the latest in a series of mortar and rocket attacks aimed at Jewish settlements in Gaza and southern Israeli towns in recent days. An Israeli helicopter fired a missile at a vehicle in Gaza City at nightfall Monday, incinerating the car and...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Once feared for its deadly suicide attacks in Israel, the Islamic militant group Hamas these days is but a shadow on Palestinian streets it once ruled with Kalashnikovs and the Quran. Its key leaders are dead, slain by Israeli missiles. Its fighters are on the run from Israeli armor and infantry. Once capable of devastating attacks, it's been reduced to lobbing crude, homemade rockets at Jewish towns and settlements around the Gaza Strip. But Hamas is likely to regenerate, because the underlying reasons for its popularity haven't changed. The absence of peace negotiations and a...

IDF says operation in progress aimed at the `terrorist infrastructure` in Gaza City (AP)

War graves hit over Iraq 'abuse' Anger has flared at photos of Iraqi captives allegedly being abused Vandals have attacked more than 30 Commonwealth war graves in Gaza City in an apparent act of retaliation for the abuse of prisoners in Iraq. Some 33 graves were desecrated or destroyed in the cemetery for troops from the two world wars. Photographs of US and British soldiers allegedly abusing Iraqi prisoners were hung from some of the tombstones. The British Consulate General in Jerusalem said it was investigating the incident. Flowers were uprooted and the message "We will take revenge" was written...

Israel killed Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin in a helicopter missile strike outside a Gaza City mosque Monday, prompting threats of unprecedented revenge by Palestinian militants against Israel and the United States. Yassin was the most prominent Palestinian leader killed by Israel in more than three years of fighting, and his assassination was seen as a major escalation. More than 200,000 Palestinians, some carrying billowing green Hamas flags, flooded the streets for the funeral procession, the largest gathering in Gaza City in recent memory. Thousands also took to the streets in the West Bank. Mourners jostled to touch Yassin's flag-draped coffin,...

A vehicle was blown apart in a loud explosion in Gaza City on Saturday, witnesses said. The cause of the blast was not immediately clear.

<p>Israeli warplanes and helicopters pounded Palestinian targets in the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing 11 people, including eight in a refugee camp where a car was bombed. One missile exploded on a street crowded with schoolchildren, wounding four of them.</p>

The Israel Defense Forces launched its fifth air strike on Gaza City on Monday evening, according to Palestinian witnesses.

as Abandons Truce After Israeli Strike By IBRAHIM BARZAK, Associated Press Writer GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israel killed a senior Hamas political leader in a missile strike Thursday, retaliating for a suicide bombing of a bus that killed 20 people, including six children. Hamas vowed revenge and, along with Islamic Jihad, formally called off a truce declared eight weeks ago. Also, Israeli troops raided the West Bank towns of Nablus, Jenin and Tulkarem in search of militants. In the West Bank city Hebron, troops blew up the home of the Jerusalem bus bomber, a routine punishment intended as deterrent....

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israel killed a senior Hamas official in a missile strike on Thursday, retaliating for a Hamas suicide bombing in Jerusalem. The Islamic militant group threatened revenge and said it is formally abandoning a truce it declared eight weeks ago. Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas warned that the killing of the Hamas official, Ismail Abu Shanab, is undermining his planned campaign against Palestinian militants. The Palestinian leadership had decided on the clampdown just hours earlier, under intense U.S. pressure. Abu Shanab was riding in his gold-colored station wagon,(way to blend in) along with two bodyguards, in...

A senior Hamas official declared a ceasefire dead on Thursday shortly after an Israeli missile strike killed Ismail Abu Shanab, a leader of the militant Islamic group, in Gaza City. "The assassination of Abu Shanab ... means that the Zionist enemy has assassinated the truce and the Hamas movement holds the Zionist enemy fully responsible for the consequences of its crime," Ismail al-Haniyah told reporters in Gaza. Palestinian militant faction chiefs declared a temporary ceasefire on June 29 under international pressure to advance a new U.S.-backed plan for peace with Israel.

A senior Hamas official and at least two other Palestinains were killed Thursday afternoon when Israel Air Force helicopters fired five missiles at a car in a crowded Gaza City neighborhood. Security sources said that Hamas leader Ismail Abu Shanab was the target of the strike. The other two Palestinians killed were reported to have been Shanab's bodyguards. Abu Shanab's gold-colored station wagon was driving in the Rimal neighborhood near the United Nations headquarters in Gaza City and had slowed down to avoid a large stone in the road when a first missile struck the front of the vehicle. The...

Aug. 21 — GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli helicopter missile strike on a car in Gaza City on Thursday killed senior Hamas militant leader Ismail Abu Shanab and two bodyguards, Palestinian witnesses and medics said. A senior Israeli security source confirmed Abu Shanab was the target of the attack. It occurred after Israel decided to resume military strikes against militants following a Hamas suicide bombing that shattered a truce underpinning a U.S.-backed peace plan.

Aug. 21 — GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli helicopter gunships fired five missiles into a residential part of Gaza City on Thursday, Palestinian witnesses said. The reported attack occurred after Israel's government decided on a return to wide-ranging strikes against Islamic militants following a Palestinian suicide bombing that splintered a seven-week-old truce key to a peace plan.

Israel has launched an attack in Gaza City in apparent retaliation for Tuesday's bus bombing, FNC quotes the Associated Press as reporting. Six "large explosions" have been heard in the city. The attack was apparently carried out by helicopter gunship.

<p>August 21, 2003 -- Israel last night retaliated for the slaying of 20 in a Jerusalem bus attack labeled the "Massacre of the Children" by blowing up homicide bomber Raedl Abdel Misk's home and sending tanks and troops to West Bank clampdown on Palestinian terrorism.</p>