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Israeli warplanes bombed a Hamas security outpost and tunnels by the Gaza border with Egypt on Tuesday, after a rocket fired from the coastal territory struck an Israeli town, Israeli and Hamas sources said. Palestinian medics said a woman in Gaza suffered moderate wounds from one of several air strikes against tunnels Israel says are used to smuggle weapons into the coastal territory. Another raid targeted a Hamas outpost near a border fence with Israel, a Hamas source said. It was the first time Israel has attacked the Islamic militant group since a January 18 ceasefire went into effect after...

Four rockets fired at western Negev Tuesday afternoon. Sderot resident breaks leg after tripping while rushing to take shelter Several hours after the IDF clashed with terrorists in the Kissufim area, Red Color rocket sirens sounded throughout the western Negev Tuesday afternoon. Four rockets fired from Gaza apparently landed in open fields near Sderot. The first alert siren was heard at about 1 pm, and followed by a rocket landing in the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council. No injuries or damage wee reported. Shortly later, two other Qassams were fired at the area. A woman and a teenage girl tripped as...

Israel's air force fired around 20 missiles at targets in Gaza City on Saturday, causing heavy damage, a Reuters witness said. The IDF has confirmed the report. (Hanan Greenberg and Reuters)

The 'Qassam Kindergarten' Jihad   'Palestinians' Islamic Hamas, "loves" children, well, in their special 'death cult' type of way anyway.   You already know how they love their own children... to die for propaganda, and make every effort in succeeding in - unfortunately.   But there are children under the "wings of Jihadi love" of Hamas, the Israeli children in schools, in kindergartens, they are "favorites", favorites in Hamas' targets that is, planning the time/place when/where they go to school, thank God for so many miracles where children weren't harmed.   Call it 'Qassam kindergarten', 'Kindergarten Jihad', or plain 'Jihad...

There had been a light, cold drizzle just before the Muslim taxi driver picked me up in Jerusalem. It should be a 90-minute drive to Sderot, in southern Israel. Along the wet highway, I asked the driver to stop at a small town so that I could buy a juice, and inside the Muslim store a television was turned to news in English, showing success of the most recent Iraqi elections. In the past, candidates often hid their faces, but this time photos were posted all over the walls and buildings. A fundamental change has occurred. A wave of satisfaction...

(IsraelNN.com) The cabinet has voted to accept a unilateral ceasefire in Gaza. Two ministers voted against the proposal and one abstained from voting.

Note: Photo included. SNIPPET: "Mexico condemns the excessive use of force associated with the Israeli army operation in Gaza, " a statement from the Mexican Foreign Ministry said late Tuesday. It also condemned "the continued launching of mortars into Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip". Latin American countries have largely condemned Israel over its launch of 'Operation Cast Lead' on Gaza on December 27. Immediately after Israeli warplanes attacked the strip, Cuba called the offensive an "act of genocide" and a "criminal military operation, the bloodiest one executed by Israel against the Palestinian people." Three day later, the Bolivian Foreign...

SNIPPET: "The fundamental truth is that Hamas' road to Iran runs through the international Muslim Brotherhood, and has for two decades. What is often missing in the discussion of the Muslim Brotherhood is that Hamas, according to its own founding charter, is an integral and armed part of the Ikwhan, not separate from it."

On Gaza: It’s Time The World Sees What American Leaders See So Clearly Posted by Chana on Thu 8 Jan 2009 Last July President-elect Barack Obama visited Sderot, the Israeli town which has suffered most from Hamas rocket attacks eminating from Gaza. His words then were clear and unequivocal: “If somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I’m going to do everything in my power to stop that. And I would expect Israelis to do the same thing. In terms of negotiations with Hamas, it is very hard to negotiate with a group...

(IsraelNN.com) Head of Military Intelligence General Amos Yadlin warned Monday that Hizbullah may open up another front in the ongoing war. Yadlin warned that Hizbullah may fire Katushya rockets at Israeli cities in the coming days.

Cheney stressed the US support for the Gaza operation, saying the rocket fire on Israel must stop.

"Summary of Overnight Events, 03 January 2009"

The MSM is busily showing video clips of the damage in Gaza many of them falsified. Palestinian Media Watch has reported this example: A Palestinian journalist has complained that the media and others are manipulating the images going out to the world "A mother of one of the martyrs stood by the door of the intensive care unit while crying... relatives and those around her were telling her what she should say to the television cameras: 'Say your son [before he died] prayed and went out.' Another tells her: 'Curse the Arab leaders'... The journalists [in the hospitals] are going...

Gaza terrorists continued to attack southern Israel late Tuesday morning, lightly wounding a Sderot man when one of six Kassam rockets fired at the city hit a house. Another rocket landed some 500 meters away while a third hit a city cemetery. Three more rockets hit open areas. Approximately four rockets were launched in the direction of Ashkelon, Ashdod and Netivot. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage in the attacks. The rockets were fired as Israel let some 100 trucks carrying humanitarian supplies from Jordan, Turkey and international aid groups into the Gaza Strip via the Kerem...

WaPo steps in Pallywood Doodoo? Something Smells ... Apparently, Gaza journalists are having trouble finding civilians among the casualties. Reports estimate 90% of killed are “militants.”

The loud noise scares the baby. But it could have been worse. The explosion in the courtyard could have been in the building--the babies could have died. Who is protecting the crying baby in Sedrot? The youngsters run away from the falling missiles. Who screams out their pain. Not the media. They don't call it targeting children--they call it circle of violence. The Girls hide under the desk, will the rockets hit them this time? Will they get killed next time....Why doesn't the Mainstream Media care? Where is the UN? Don't Jewish Babies Matter? That baby is still crying in...

Hamas To Blame For Deaths 'Hamas To Blame For Dead' Sunday December 28, 2008 Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni has told Sky News that there is no option but to use force against Hamas....the responsibility for civilian casualties lay with Hamas.http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Israeli-Foreign-Minister-Tzipi-Li

Jewish Leaders defend Gaza strike Boston Globe, United States Hamas's disregard for Israeli life is matched by its disregard for the lives of Palestinians living in Gaza. Using innocent Palestinians as human shields, Hamas purposely fires its missiles from homes, schools and community centers, confident in the knowledge that when Israel finally acts to stop the killing of its own civilians, Palestinians will also inevitably be harmed. The use of Palestinian civilians as human shields is not merely unspeakably cruel. It is also a fundamental violation of Palestinian human rights by the Hamas leadership. Israel cares deeply about protecting the...

Palestinian rocket misfires, kills 2 girls in Gaza AP – Masked Palestinian militants are seen during an Islamic Jihad rally in Bureij, central Gaza Strip, Friday, … GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – A crude rocket fired by Palestinian militants fell short of its target in Israel on Friday, striking a house in the northern Gaza Strip and killing two schoolgirls. The attack came as Israel sent mixed signals over its plans to respond to continuing Palestinian rocket fire. Israeli defense officials say politicians have approved a large-scale incursion into the territory once rainy conditions clear. But at the same time,...

Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for rocket attacks on Israel Special report: Palestine-Israel Relations GAZA, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- A Palestinian armed group on Sunday claimed responsibility for firing rockets into Israel from Gaza Strip, which slightly injured one person. In a statement sent to the media, the Islamic Jihad movement said its militants fired 10 home-made rockets and several rounds of mortars into southern Israeli towns of Sderot, Ashkelon and Eshkol community. The statement said the rockets fire kept nearly an hour early on Sunday morning. Israeli sources said a Thai worker sustained minor injuries and a woman was treated...