UNHOLY ISRAEL MAKIN BACON! Israeli aircraft & troops continuing their assault on Gaza, despite an Israeli official's assessment that the two-week operation may be in its final days. Eight-hundred-ninety-eight fatalities & 3,695 casualties on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

UNHOLY ISRAEL MAKIN BACON! Israeli aircraft & troops continuing their assault on Gaza, despite an Israeli official's assessment that the two-week operation may be in its final days. Eight-hundred-ninety-eight fatalities & 3,695 casualties on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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Israeli aircraft and troops continued their assault on Gaza on Sunday, despite an Israeli official's assessment that the two-week-old military operation might be in its final days.
Smoke billows from buildings in Gaza on Saturday as seen from the Israel-Gaza border.

Smoke billows from buildings in Gaza on Saturday as seen from the Israel-Gaza border.
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Israel has said the air and ground operation is aimed at stopping rocket fire from Gaza, but militants have continued to launch rockets and mortar shells into southern Israel.

At least 20 rockets struck Israel on Sunday, including a kindergarten in the southern city of Ashdod, causing some damage but no casualties, according to an Israeli military statement.

Israeli soldiers on Sunday closed in on Gaza City from the north and the south. Residents said heavy shelling and large plumes of black smoke emanated from the city. Also, there was heavy gunfire in northeast Gaza from a location where two rockets were launched toward Israel on Sunday.

Thirty-three Palestinians, including a pregnant woman, were killed in Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian medical sources said. That brings the total killed to 898 and 3,695 injured in Gaza since the start of fighting December 27, the sources said.

Forty-five percent of the dead were women and children, the sources said.

In addition to Palestinians injured, two Egyptian children and two Egyptian police officers were also wounded by shrapnel from an Israeli air strike during an operation targeting tunnels and other infrastructure used by Hamas.

"The Israeli Air Force were targeting tunnels and other parts of the Hamas terror infrastructure in the Philadelphia Corridor on the Gaza side of the border and unfortunately during the course of one of those attacks, shrapnel went over to the Egyptian side, " said a military spokesperson.

The IDF said they regret the incident.

Thirteen Israelis, including 10 soldiers, have died in the Gaza fighting and in rocket attacks on southern Israel since December 27. Video Watch more about the impact of air strikes »
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Israel may be close to "the end of the operation" because of a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire, Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai said Sunday.

"The decision of the U.N. Security Council doesn't leave us much leeway," Vilnai told Israel Radio. "It would seem then, I'm guessing, that we are close to the end of the ground operation and the end of the operation altogether."

The U.N. resolution was rejected by both Israel and Hamas, which controls Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told his Cabinet on Sunday that "further patience" is needed, despite the fact that "Israel is nearing the goals it set" for its military operation in Gaza.

"We must not, at the last minute, lose what has been achieved in an unprecedented national effort that restored the spirit of unity to the nation," Olmert said. "The Israeli public, especially the residents of the south, have the requisite patience and willingness -- so does the government." Photo See images from the offensive »

Israeli paratroopers on Sunday uncovered booby-trapped schools, tunnels and weapon caches in Gaza, the Israeli military said. More than 30 homes in one neighborhood were found to be rigged with explosives, the military said.

"Hamas is booby-trapping every home that is abandoned by its residents," said Brig. Gen. Avi Benayahu, an Israel Defense Forces spokesman.

Israeli troops also targeted more than 40 armed gunmen, according to the IDF, though it did not say whether the gunmen were killed.

An Israeli envoy was expected to return to Cairo, Egypt, by Monday to talk to Egyptian officials trying to negotiate an end to the fighting.

For a fourth day, Israel announced a three-hour "lull" in attacks Sunday to allow Gaza residents to leave their homes to stock up on supplies. The halt in attacks started at 11 a.m.

Israeli aircraft attacked at least 60 targets in Gaza overnight, including a mosque in southern Gaza allegedly used to store Hamas weapons and train militants, the IDF said Sunday.

The mosque was "used for storing weaponry such as machine guns and sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles," the IDF said. "The mosque was also used as a training camp and a gathering place for Hamas members."

Other targets early Sunday included 10 weapons storage sites, including some houses of Hamas members, the IDF said. iReport.com: Share thoughts, reactions to crisis in the Middle East
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The home of Ahmed Jabri, the chief of Hamas' military wing, was also struck by Israeli missiles, the IDF said.

Nine tunnels used by Hamas to smuggle weapons into Rafah in Gaza from Egypt were also attacked, the IDF said.

Source; edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/11/israel.gaza/index.... 

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	NICE JEWISH GIRL    says: PIGS!!! Posted 9 days ago. ( permalink )
	New Mexico Gunman AKA "Plains Pistoleer"    says: Perhaps Hamas should have thought a few times about rocketing people whose parents and grandparents had been subjected to attempted genocide. Perhaps they should have learned that you can only push people so far before they fight back. Perhaps people should realize that Jewish lives count as much as Arab ones, and should have been calling on Hamas to stop killing Israelis before the Israelis would fight back and show their tormentors they weren't going to take it anymore. I'm sick of all the hypocrisy this has brought out! ISRAEL WAS BEING ATTACKED AND IS DEFENDING ITSELF! Where were all the protestors when Jews were being killed? SILENT! But let the Arabs get what they were asking for, specifically retaliation, and let the Arabs use mosques, apartments and other non-belligerent sites as weapons caches and mortar positions, and let the Arabs use their favorite propaganda tool of human shields, and the Israelis catch holy, bloody hell for it! THE ARABS STARTED THIS, AND ISRAEL IS GOING TO FINISH IT, AND THE "PROTESTORS" AND "PEACE LOVERS" ARE ANGRY THAT THE JEWS ARE WINNING! When people wave PA flags, and scream for the Jews to go "back into the ovens," that isn't a peace protest, it's HATRED as vile as anything Hitler ever preached! When synagogues here are attacked, it's Kristallnacht all over again! First they come for the Jews, then the Christians...and then we ALL end up slaves, dhimmis and worse! If the Arabs don't want civilians killed, they should come out and fight like men, not like cowards! QUIT HIDING BEHIND WOMEN AND CHILDREN, YOU PATHETIC EXCUSES FOR WHAT APPARENTLY ARABS CALL "MEN!" But of course, that won't happen...because the holy warriors of Mohammed are all a bunch of sleazy cowards...and are also militarily inept, to boot! Hamas, Fatah and the rest deserve to be stomped, and they should get it through their thick skulls (as should that dime store Hitler wannabee Ahmadi-Nejad) that civilized people won't stand for another genocide of the Jewish people, and that free people will resist them and their foul excuse for ideology! I fought these sleazeballs twice, once in the '90's and again after 9/11...and if I'm needed, I WILL AGAIN! Now, let's see you "peace" "activists" explain why killing Jews doesn't deserve protest, but Arabs getting what they asked for is so evil. All I see are people condemning Israel for the crime of existing, but giving a pass to the Arabs for praising Hitler, calling for a second Shoah, for desecrating churches in Christian towns, for desecrating synagogues here and in Israel...what I see isn't a call for "peace," I see a call for a people to surrender and accept genocide. I see "peace" protestors for what they've always been: Hate-filled hypocrites. A pox on you...and I pray you never have to live under the regimes and ideologies you idealize and idolize! Posted 9 days ago. ( permalink )
	d200 dug No censorship!    says: Stuff Islam and Judaism We should all follow the one true faith and worship.... BACON !! worshipbacon.com/wiki/Main_Page Posted 9 days ago. ( permalink )
	d200 dug No censorship!    says: An Australian peace anthem for Palestine. au.youtube.com/watch?v=_T4Wk9M2ObE Posted 9 days ago. ( permalink )
	d_nurv~unsafe/censored    says: give piece a chance... www.flickr.com/photos/46515576@N00/3190475552 / Posted 9 days ago. ( permalink )
	NICE JEWISH GIRL    says: i AGREE DOUG- NOW I AM JUST FUCED OFF WITH ALL OF THEM!! Posted 9 days ago. ( permalink )
	NICE JEWISH GIRL    says: We tried with the cease fire and that did not work dana! Posted 9 days ago. ( permalink )
	d200 dug No censorship!    says: It is time they both stopped acting like kids and realized they have a problem that they need to get over and work out a solution that does not involve killing and maiming innocent people. I tend to think Hamas is most at fault here they are like the little kid in the school yard who picks on bigger kids then screams when they hit back. Both sides need to be serious about peace. Posted 9 days ago. ( permalink )
	d_nurv~unsafe/censored    says: gail...that wasn't a typo... ...to be frank i'm sick to death of politics and the whole f*kkin' lot of these c*nts...if they want to blow each others brains out...be my guest... unfortunately i have friends in the region who don't buy into this shit...and i feel for them... and the only interest i truly have is how it impacts the rest of us...unfortunately the roots of the whole islamist movement can be traced to this conflict...and anything that happens there only fuels the fires of hatred that burn in the fundamentalist schools of Pakistan and the hills of Afghanistan where my people are being blown up... and they only thing i will say about that is...canadian soldiers are doing what they do for the women of Afghanistan...which is the only sympathy i have for that particular intervention... Posted 9 days ago. ( permalink )
	TecMex says: Go team israel!!!! Posted 8 days ago. ( permalink )
	d200 dug No censorship!    says: Go team Israel ? WTF ? is this some kind of sick gladiator blood sport played for your enjoyment. Can't you feel the pain of those wounded and dying on both sides and the loss of those who find their families and loved ones killed? I hope you never have to feel the pain of your child dying but if you had you would understand that this is not a game. Posted 8 days ago. ( permalink )
	johncoxon    says: Red necks- team Israel? Was that irony or just crass stupidity talking. And as for "Plains Pistoleer" clearly doesn't understand the notion of unreasonable force. Look at casualty figures and the unequal armour. A few rockets and a handful of regretable Israeli fatalities and injuries. Now how many Palestinians dead and how many of them were kids and women. You have talking through your arse down to a fine art! Posted 8 days ago. ( permalink )
	d_nurv~unsafe/censored    says: edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/01/14/bin.la den.bergen/ ...surprise surprise Posted 6 days ago. ( permalink )
	johncoxon    says: Thanks d nurv etc etc for the link. Kind of weird that not much action here with Gail's posts last few days . Thought at least the two ultra fascist red neck Republicans with their outrageous anti life comments would respond to my posts but they are cowardly arseholes of course andwe should feel sorry for their reactionary brainless rants ! I mean come on , Team Israel? Murdering bastards and nothing what soever with the true spirit of Judaism. Arse wipes. Posted 6 days ago. ( permalink )
	d_nurv~unsafe/censored    says: it's like a morgue over at my place too...i get creeped out when it gets too quiet...especially after i post items like my most recent upload... better stop by for peek...the red necks are welcome too... i don't want to get ms Matzoh embroiled in this little shit storm... Posted 6 days ago. ( permalink )
	.Vino2    says: at the same time as a 1000 palestinians are killed - 13 israelis are killed - just think of these 2 numbers, what do they say??? Posted 5 days ago. ( permalink )
	johncoxon    says: I think just ten Israel soldiers died . They signed up so that was the risk but a thousand civilians were innocent victims of this fascist state . Today they bombed a UN base and would take no repsonisbility. In terms of PR Israel gets "nil point." Why does anyone stand by this fascist state . i just don't get it. Posted 5 days ago. ( permalink )
	d200 dug No censorship!    says: It says 1013 mothers and 1013 fathers have lost their children. There is no right or wrong only waste and death. The civilians of Gaza voted for a government that supported armed attacks on Israeli people. To vote for death is never a good thing. Better to vote for peace. Posted 4 days ago. ( permalink )
	johncoxon    says: Welll love would be a good thing , Let us hope that Israel will not fuck up and kill this race on their doorstep. Their aggresive bombing of innocent people did them no favours . Posted 22 hours ago. ( permalink )
	johncoxon    says: Fuck them! They are agressive bastardsn Racicist , Right wing bastards.Israel ahs not the right to exist in my view unless they can get somesense ofdecency. Posted 22 hours ago. ( permalink )
	PearlAxe says: Here we go again with the bleeding heart sympathizers. WTF John.I wonder how much sympathy you would have if some gang of miscreants were shooting bullets into your home only killing one of your children but then you get tired of it and buy a gun your self and manage to kill six of them. Then your neighbors start saying how unfair it was that you shot more of them than you had lost. Oh yah and lets not forget that your bullets also managed their way into a passer-by car and wounded or killed a bystander. SHIT Happens. It's a war, man. Casualties are going to happen especially when the cowards are hiding amongst civillians. Truth of the matter is, there are no real winners in war. Just degrees of loosers. As far as I'm concerned john, your no better than the hamas because of your crap belief that Isreal was the aggressor. You are exactly who the plains pistoleer was talking about. A know nothing turd that thinks he has a clue. It's ok to back a horse John, just make sure it's not lame. Posted 19 hours ago. ( permalink )

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