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Israel stands ready 'for weeks of combat'

Tuesday 30 December 2008

Israeli warplanes target Hamas in the Gaza Strip for a fourth day as Israel readies "for weeks of combat," according to Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai. Israeli sources say the army is also prepared to launch ground operations if necessary.

Special Report   Gaza under attack

Tuesday 30 December 2008

Read the FRANCE 24 Observers on "Is the Israeli intervention justified?"

 

FRANCE 24's Ygal Saadoun reports from the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza.

 

 

FRANCE 24 with wires - For a fourth straight day, Israeli warplanes pounded Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, leveling key installations and setting off fires in the crowded Palestinian enclave as the death toll mounted amid international alarm over the humanitarian situation in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that the bombardment of Hamas targets in Gaza was "the first of several stages" approved by his government.

"We are ready for a prolonged conflict and for weeks of combat," added Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai.


Map of the Gaza Strip.  Picture: France 24

 

The Israeli army is ready to launch a ground operation in Gaza if ordered to do so, a government spokeswoman also said on Tuesday. "The ground forces are ready," Avital Liebovitz told AFP. "Everyone is in place on the ground."

"The option (of a ground operation) exists. It is possible that we will apply it but for the moment we are only hitting from the air and the sea."

Israeli airstrikes early on Tuesday intensified after midnight and centered mainly on Gaza City, where the foreign ministry building and the offices of the prime minister were among those hit.

Reporting from Gaza, FRANCE 24’s Radja Abou Dagga said Israeli ordnance pummelled ministerial targets overnight. “We heard a series of explosions which were concentrated on the ministerial complex, which was hit by at least 20 bombs,” said Abou Dagga. “This created panic everywhere, which made it difficult for ambulances to circulate.”


About fourty Israeli strikes targeted ministry buildings in Gaza early Tuesday.  Credit: AFP Photo

 

Palestinian medical sources said at least 10 people were killed in the latest attacks, putting the death toll at at least 360 since the Israeli onslaught began on Saturday. More than 1,690 others have been wounded, according to Gaza medical officials. According to a tally issued by UNRWA, the UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees, the civilian casualty count stands at 57, including 21 children and at least seven women.
 
The attacks failed to put an end to Hamas rocket attacks into Israel – the original cause of the latest Israeli offensive. At least four people – including an Israeli soldier – have been killed by Hamas rocket and mortar attacks since Saturday.
 
Israel’s first military casualty occurred on Monday evening when a Hamas mortar shell killed a soldier in his camp near the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli military officials. Israeli tanks and troops have massed on the border and the area around has been declared a "closed military zone".

Israeli Navy confronts boat with aid supplies

The prospect of an Israeli ground offensive has further shaken Gaza’s beleaguered residents, according to witnesses. International aid organisations have called on Israel to allow humanitarian aid into the besieged coastal enclave.
 
Early on Tuesday, an Israeli patrol boat confronted a boat carrying medical volunteers and supplies to Gaza. No-one was injured in the incident. While the Israeli military said the boat - which was operated by a pro-Palestinian charity - had collided with their patrol vessel, passengers on board the aid boat said the Israeli patrol boat had rammed their vessel.


The Israeli operation killed more than 360 people in four days.  Credit: AFP Photo


Speaking to FRANCE 24 on Tuesday, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Ygal Palmor said the Israeli Navy had offered assistance after the collision, but the crew had refused. “This boat, carrying more journalists than humanitarian aid, tried to force its way towards Gaza,” said Palmor. “The boat therefore tried a surprise manoeuvre operation.”
 
On Tuesday, a convoy of 109 trucks bearing humanitarian aid was authorised to enter the Strip, Israeli military spokesman Peter Lerner told the AFP news service.

EU meeting in bid to halt violence

The latest Israeli attack follow the expiration of a six-month ceasefire between Hamas and the Israeli government, with Israeli officials declaring that the goal of the onslaught was to stop the rocket and mortar attacks from Gaza on its citizens.
 
But on Monday, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Haim Ramon said the goal of the current military offensive was to “topple Hamas”.

 In an interview with FRANCE 24 Tuesday, Benjamin Netanyahu, head of Israel’s opposition Likud party, defended the current Gaza attacks. “We’re faced with the problem where we have an implacable foe that’s basically an al Qaeda-type enemy implanted next to our cities,” he said, referring to Hamas. “It is committed to our destruction, it is supported by Iran that openly declares its goal to destroy us.”

In its response, Washington has so far supported the Israeli goal. "The United States understands that Israel needs to take actions to defend itself," White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe told reporters on Monday.
 
The US response followed UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s call on regional and world leaders to work urgently to end the "unacceptable" levels of violence.
 
EU foreign ministers are meeting in Paris on Tuesday to "look into how the European Union can help ease the current crisis,” according to a French foreign ministry statement. The diplomatic shuffle follows days of protests in several Arab and European capitals.

 

To read our 'Observers' account on Israel's high-tech weaponry, please click here.


 

  • 21/01/2009 05:45:17 Alert a moderator

    throwing rocks vs returning cannon fire?

    As I sit here in the quiet land of America, no gunfire, no bombs, just peace and quiet, I wonder what my neighbor would do if I began throwing rocks through his windows. Even if my rock throwing had little effect on his safety, would I stop my distructive action if my neighbor were to bombard my house with cannon fire, destroying it and killing my loved ones, especially if he simply told me, "Stop throwing rocks and I will stop firing my cannon!"? Now what do you think any reasonably smart person would do? Stop throwing rocks, of course. So, what is so different about this situation than what is going on in the Gaza strip. I don't get it, as it sit here under peaceful star-lit skies.

  • 12/01/2009 18:49:16 Alert a moderator

    comment on face off evening in israel - 9 p.m.

    has the world leadership become so blind and blame israel for defending itself???? if hamas is the legitimate gov't why don't and didn't they try to raise their peoples standards and build an infrastructure so they can raise their standard of living......we were wrong in our gov't destroying gush katif and made the people homeless....so we left, the arabs completely flatened that area... this unbridled hatred fuels this conflict now...... why???? ...harold

  • 10/01/2009 22:01:38 Alert a moderator

    reply to 'Israel protects himself' himself? israel isnt a person

    I would like to say that Spain wouldn't attack France because they don't want to create a war all because they want a land like Israel did. Palestine is defending itself and trying to point out to the world that Israel has basically noced its land. If Spain did that to France or France did that Spain do you think that they would sit there throwing rockets that rarely kill anyone or would they make a difference by sending actual bombs? Have you ever thought of it from Palestion's point of view? Would Israel sit there and throw small bombs or would they make a fuss? Have you ever thought of it that way? As well as the fact that there is a HUGE comparism with the weapons between is Isreal and Palestine. Just take some time to think of it that way.....

  • 09/01/2009 20:15:45 Alert a moderator

    Israel protects himself

    Just one simple question.
    Let say Spain will start shoot rockets toward France. How long France will wait before hit Spain back?
    Israel was waiting 8 years. 8 Year about one million people lived under fire. 8 Year parents send kids to school and don't know if they will come back.
    I think it was more than enough to show to all world, that organizations like HAMAS don't want any peace.
    All they want, kill as much as possible israelis, but nobody in Europe don't care about.
    I don't remember any word from any country for all those years, asking Palestinians to stop it.
    So Israel have no any other possibility to protect, other than military action.

  • 08/01/2009 20:19:11 Alert a moderator

    reply to 'FRANCE 24- is it news?

    Shall i tell you why?
    Because if you havn't noticed until monday the 5th of january Israel were not letting and aids go into GAZA so stop making it up because i can assure you that Israel WERE NOT letting aids in untill Monday and ONLY for 3 HOURS and they were ceartinally not encouraging them and that links into what i am going to say next......
    A lot of pro-israel have been saying that Israel have been targeting only hamas buildings in which that hamas have been storing explosives in:therefore the buildings have been exploding dangerously. UMMMMM......i am afraid to break it to you the truth is that explosive bombs that Israel are using are EXTREMELY dangerous bombs.
    To conclude france 24 have been saying all this because it si true NOTHING should give the right for Israel to bomb innicent people.
    P.S i could write a looooooooot more but i do not want to waste my time trying to show the blind people the obvious (no offense not that i meant it to be offrnsive it is just that i get very defiant)

  • 08/01/2009 20:18:19 Alert a moderator

    reply to 'FRANCE 24- is it news?

    Shall i tell you why?
    Because if you havn't noticed until monday the 5th of january Israel were not letting and aids go into GAZA so stop making it up because i can assure you that Israel WERE NOT letting aids in untill Monday and ONLY for 3 HOURS and they were ceartinally not encouraging them and that links into what i am going to say next......
    A lot of pro-israel have been saying that Israel have been targeting only hamas buildings in which that hamas have been storing explosives in:therefore the buildings have been exploding dangerously. UMMMMM......i am afraid to break it to you the truth is that explosive bombs that Israel are using are EXTREMELY dangerous bombs.
    To conclude france 24 have been saying all this because it si true NOTHING should give the right for Israel to bomb innicent people.
    P.S i could write a looooooooot more but i do not want to waste my time trying to show the blind people the obvious (no offense not that i meant it to be offrnsive it is just that i get very defiant)

  • 08/01/2009 20:01:20 Alert a moderator

    the war from a pro-palestine's view

    First of all i would like to say that Israel is the terriosts not Palestine because they invaded their land and starting calling it Israel. Also i would like to say that back when Palestine used to be under the British administration, when lots of jews were immigrating in and had settled in, they started to form terriost groups trying to over throw the british so that they can take over this land and make it become Israel that it is now. If you have noticed the British have simply 'forgotten' this. Now another thing is that most pro-palestine have looked at it from both sides of the arguament you could say. Other than pro-israel who have NOT done that.

  • 08/01/2009 15:43:11 Alert a moderator

    Answering to "Racing to no where only to self distruction"

    You are in the idealistic dream arrest! Fatha and Hamas "families" are on the knifes! This is a bunch of mafia personalities , that decided to show to the world a "democratic" face of Palestina(to have a world support an money),but really they (until now!) kill each other in street fights!!! You really do not even approaching the true reality! Hamas keeps an "Iron Rule" of the most fundamental kind to control a poor and uneducated people, which they treat like animals , making a iving shield from them. People of Palestina very close now to people of Russia in Stalin's period,they must vote for their leaders(to keep living) but in their best dreams they see themselves in any other place in the world, where they may live like a humans without their leaders.

  • 06/01/2009 02:51:13 Alert a moderator

    Racing to no where only to self distruction .

    This is an abominable shame to the So call Civilized Nations . Hypocrisy prevails , But this is no longer going to work as it had been for ages . The so call Pop is on a nose dive on this Issues . Israel are you not ashamed of yourselves as a people who had suffered in the Hands of the Nazis ( it on the Rise in Europe remember) killing people unnecessarily . You are the head ache don't you recognised that ,You must come to the negotiating Table with Hamas and talk with them you will see that they are human , they are no aliens . The facts are such they have a democratic system within the Palestinian society Two parties Hamas and fata . Why would you distroy this young democracy ? I sometimes wonder what are the Values of the so called Civilized world if they are destroying a democracy instead of directing it in the right path. I would rather been born an Allien not to see such a mess in the Human race .Racing to no where only to self distruction .

  • 05/01/2009 11:02:23 Alert a moderator

    Gaza

    I wonder how some people believe all the lies about the palestinan attaks, can't you compare the number of killed people in both sides? how could Gaza be a threat to Israeli people while they were imprisoned for 18 month till now. what wrong they have done to be deserved of murdering by uraniom bombs except defending their right to live in their own homeland? what are you who support Israel. I don't think you are human beings.

  • 05/01/2009 10:11:31 Alert a moderator

    we support israel

    Israel is not fighting with the palestinian nation - it is all about hamas&co, making the life of the whole region grave. Instead of developing Gaza after israeli withdrawal and building civic infrastructure and creating jobs, hamas elected to make war from behind of the civilians, causing numerous casualties on both sides and turning the entire gaza into their hostages. For how long, arabs, expect Israel to sit doing nothing to protect its citizens? Also don't forget all those notifications made by the israelis to palestinians by telephone in order to avoid victims, while palestinians are striking at the hospitals, kinder-gardens, schools, etc. Hamas should be totally removed and there will be a chance for piece. make love, not war!

  • 05/01/2009 08:38:29 Alert a moderator

    What does Hamas want?

    The Israelis left Gaza, The Gazans elected Hamas. Hamas does not want the country of Israel to exist in the region, Hamas fires missles into Israel. Israel phones, drops leaflets, and warns the Gazan populace to get out of harms way. In Israel one can even hear the public bellowing of the Mulim call to prayer, Allah Akbar, three times a day from the mosques. One cannot expect Israel to stand down as Hamas stands up. Hamas does not want peace with Israel. Hamas wants Israel out of the Middle East. That is the crux of the problem and the obstacle to peace. Hamas should follow the same path to peace that Egypt followed. Peace or no peace, the choice is up to Hamas.

  • 05/01/2009 07:54:51 Alert a moderator

    Replying to unjust US comments.

    I don't suppose many of you in Gaza know that most of California was once land owned by Mexico. The US won a war that set up a National Boundry between California and Mexico. Now, I can assure you, if the Mexicans were sending rockets into our cities for over 6 years, we would retaliate without fail. As a matter of fact, if it occurred only for a couple of days, we would blow them off of the map, if they kept it up. What don't you people understand about this kind of thinking? If you lived over here in freedom, you wouldn't feel like you do. The only way this invasion is going to be stopped is if the rockets from Gaza stop for good. It hasn't happened yet, but if Hamas is willing to sacrifice all of their women and children, it will go on for some time. Someone in Gaza has to have the guts to put a stop to the rockets, come on terrorists, enough already.

  • 05/01/2009 02:13:56 Alert a moderator

    Israel /Hamas

    After being attacked for so many years Israel has every right to fight back and protect its citizens. We are sorry for the innocent civilians who have to suffer in Gaza. It is Hamas who is the cause of their suffering! Like the cowards that they are they HIDE amongst the innocent! Israel has shown restraint long enough! It is time to wipe out the cancer Hamas!

  • 05/01/2009 02:00:22 Alert a moderator

    News Media on Gaza

    Why hasn't the news covered all the bombings on Israel from Gaza?343

  • 05/01/2009 01:59:43 Alert a moderator

    People open your eye

    Palestiniana was tell when israel will go from gaza they will stop terorist attacks! but what happened after the Israel goes out from gaza? after that Palestinian start talk about they winns the israel and need to continue to fight with israel and many years day by day they lanched rocket on israel civilian only for 1 reason to kill more judes! YOU say about Israel kill the civilian people the children and wooman? Think about this -> why the arabics people walk in tel-aviv eats in tel-avivs rastaurants walks in city close to israels and no one not say to them any word and you say the israels a killers! ah. think what you will do if on your city London,Paris,Stockholm or any ells was lanched rockets (20 -60) by a day to kill more civilians. and every houre you hear alarm and than not a day that happans a many years. And israels was quite not responded by eyars. CLOSE YOUR EYSE THINK IF THE ROCKETS WAS LANCHED ON YOUR CITY

  • 04/01/2009 20:48:58 Alert a moderator

    Huge strategic mistake by Israel

    Israel's attack on the largest open prison in the world is a huge strategic mistake. It will only enrage Muslims throughout the world, turn ordinary people in the West against Israel, & destabilise puppet regimes in Egypt & Saudi Arabia which are maintained by the West. If radical Mullahs only convince 1 in every 1000 Muslims to become suicide bombers, then we are facing 1.3 million explosions. NOT a price worth paying to support a thuggish regime anywhere in the world.

  • 04/01/2009 20:06:39 Alert a moderator

    plus ca change

    Remember! Never Again!
    Slaves exist and walk within
    Three square miles behind a wall of arrogance
    Topped by barbed wire.
    Yellow stars in Warsaw streets
    Those ‘not like us’ trudge where,
    Uncobbled roads become mud caked sewers.
    Food and medicines cost lives
    Of smugglers on barbed wire and bullets.
    Typhoid kills those starvation spares.
    Ghetto children play with pistols, rifles, stones
    In a last attempt to claim dignity in death.
    We watched the felling of the flags,
    The killings here and at journeys end.
    The world cried and swore, never again!

    Remember? Never Again?
    A home to ancient semite races.
    King David’s witnessed
    Another battle that divided this land.
    More death, more blood.
    Six days saw hopes crushed, lives lost
    Slaughter forgiven by arrogant conquerors.
    Mud flooded Ghaza streets brings disease to bodies
    Imprisoned behind a barbed wire topped wall.
    Which side of that wire are those who are not like us?
    Bombs kill, and the weak, young and old
    Die from lack,
    Lack of medicine, lack of food, lack of compassion
    For sixty years, for generations,
    Again we watch.
    Will the world cry this time too?

  • 04/01/2009 20:00:15 Alert a moderator

    Gaza "faire le point"

    I just caught a report on your French language channel in which you explain the current situation in Gaza. I want to say that your report was shamefully biased. Nowhere do you explain that after the withdrawal of the settlers Israel turned the Gaza into an economically-strangulated prison, controlling the strip’s borders, airspace, coastline, energy, taxes, etc. You also do not mention anything of the ongoing occupation forcing Palestinians to live in hopelessness or destitution. You do not mention either that rocket attacks were a response to the Israeli siege of the strip. 80% of those living in Gaza are from or are the descendants of people from what is now Southern Israel. They are refugees denied the right to return to their homes. Your complete lack of a historical context to the conditions prevailing in Gaza and the consequent election of Hamas is shameful and unprofessional.

  • 04/01/2009 19:54:46 Alert a moderator

    HAMAS IS NOT A TERRORIST MOVEMENT................

    part 2 of HAMAS IS NOT TERRORIST MOVEMENT
    Don't take me as ARAB,I'm a black man with a big heart and I can't stand different on this situation, first of all I'M A CITIZEN OF THIS WORLD,l'm concern about that.
    Please don't take me as anti-semite,l like everyone as long as you're leaving in peace ,respect and freedom for each other.
    Please find a common ground to slove this problem,we don't want to be the spectators of looses of innocent people.............
    QUE LA PAIX DE NOS ANCETRES AFRICAINS SOIT AVEC LA PALESTINE....GOD BLESS PEOPLE OF PALESTINE..
    ........KEEPING FAITH IN GOD ONE DAY YOU'LL REGAIN YOU COUNTRY AND YOUR PEOPLE WHO LIVES OUTSIDE YOUR COUNTRY(REFUGES).I LEAVE NOW..............

  • 04/01/2009 19:15:45 Alert a moderator

    The war

    Hellow! Here is me - an israelian "terrorist". Live in Ashkelon. Already used to run to a bomb shelter with a baby on my hands when a siren "singing" (very fearful, you know...). It happening in our area... 8 years! Yes, 8 years, may be all you, defenders of poor palestinians, you, that didn't heard in your live a siren, want to think about it a little? May be you want to come and visit us? You are very welcome! Very, very welcome!
    And everybody who tell about the palestinians rights to this piece of land - may be, it be useful instead of seeing all the time pro-palestinian TV, to take a book of history to hands and read a little? It can be very useful sometimes, you know.

  • 04/01/2009 18:18:28 Alert a moderator

    Israel vs. Palestinians - 10 facts

    1) The Jewish nation remembers itself for more than 3300 years - there were no Palestinians just 100 years ago! Galilean Arabs are a part of Syrian nation, and the (original) Gaza Arabs are Egyptians.
    2) 126 years ago, Palestine was an almost empty land. Jews began to come here in order to revive their Homeland - and Arabs came here from all over the Middle East in order to get work and money.
    3) The main aim of Jews has been the establishment of their state - the main aim of Arabs has been to expel Israelis from here.
    4) Israelis have agreed to drastic territorial waivers in order to get peace - Palestinians insist upon dragging the bloodshed for more that 100 years; establishment of a Palestinian State does not matter to them!
    5) Israel invests its best into reception of Jewish immigrants from all over the World and building one of the most developed and prosperous countries in the World - Palestinians keep their people inside refugees camps, in order to preserve their "spirit of fight".
    6) Israelis are ready to sacrifice their lives for the sake of secure living of all Israeli citizens - Jews, Muslims and Christians - the Palestinian terrorists are ready to sacrifice their lives for the sake of killing Israelis.
    7) The Israeli Army fights to defend its civil population - the Palestinian fighters hide behind their civilians.
    8) The Israeli Army often endangers its soldiers to save enemy's civilians - the Palestinian terrorists aim primarily at Israeli civilians.
    9) Judaism sanctifies the LIFE and creation - radical Islam sanctifies the DEATH and destruction.
    10) Israel will be the winner - Palestinians will be the losers!

  • 04/01/2009 18:07:20 Alert a moderator

    Gaza attack

    It is Israel's right to defend its citizens against terrorists like HAMAS. Rocket attacks must be stopped

  • 04/01/2009 17:32:00 Alert a moderator

    Cynthia - Ireland - this is for you!! come and read!!

    i invite you to live in Sederot withe all you'r family for one day, i promise you that you will run you will cry you will not sleep at night ' you family be in trauma !!
    No goverment in the world would suffer for so long and not retaliate. But when Israel
    does this to protect our right to exist, the entire world is against us!
    i

  • 04/01/2009 17:17:02 Alert a moderator

    We are at war against a terrorist organization - the Hamas.

    We are at war against a terrorist organization - the Hamas.
    Hamas does not care whether women, children, the sick or elderly will die. It does not care for it's own people!
    They are firing missiles from their streets, from their homes, they have turned their schools and mosques into
    factories manufacturing missiles and bombs! People in the south of Israel have been suffering for more than 8 years
    from being fired at around the clock with no justified reason! children cannot sleep at night, people are in
    prolonged anxiety. No goverment in the world would suffer for so long and not retaliate. But when Israel
    does this to protect our right to exist, the entire world is against us! Did anyone tell Bush to stop war against Al Qaueda?
    Did they tell him to stop the war in Iraq? Or Putin to stop the war in Chechnia and Georgia? Every country in the
    world saves its right to defend its citizens, but when it comes to Israel that has been targeted for the past 8 years
    by Hamas missiles, whos civillians are killed in terroris attacks by barbarians that allow themselves to destroy us
    just because we are Jewish! we never get the right to live in peace! It is time that everyone understand, we are
    here to stay!!Let us live in peace!

  • 04/01/2009 16:45:40 Alert a moderator

    Support in Israely Army

    There is no more peacefull people than people of Israel!
    Is it normal for you that children, before playing, used to figure out first where they run if there is an alert and that they can do it for 15 sekonds?
    This is not normal to me, but there are children in Sderot, who has been born to this and doesn't know that this is not a normal living!
    We have to stop terrorism!

  • 04/01/2009 14:09:51 Alert a moderator

    THE MASSACRE!!!

    SHAME ON THE UN, ON THE USA, ON ISRAEL. Israel are the BIGGEST terrorist organisation who is helped and fully supported by the United States. The WHOLE world is against them and against this GENOCIDE, and again, they did not listen and went with their battle, turning their backs to the world. Until when will this go on???? They took over Palestine, they are occupying it since 1948, they took the Palestinians lands, houses, fields and they are wondering why they are hated? Why the Palestinians became terrorists??? They looked and searched for this war and once again, they will come out of it DEFEATED, same as the war they had with Lebanon in 2006. Bush is a murderer and everyone who is supporting him is too! This blood shed should stop immediately...this is absolutely unacceptable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!! Enough killing civilians, children, women and men! Enough blood, enough wars, we had enough!!!

  • 04/01/2009 13:55:08 Alert a moderator

    Latest Tipping point will be Israel's undoing

    The latest foolish Israeli invasion of the largest open prison on the planet will be a tipping point and that nations ultimate undoing. Western backed corrupt & unrepresentaive Muslim governments will as normal stand by & do nothing. This will only further enrage their subject peoples who will eventually react to the situation in Gaza by overthrowing their own governments. This in turn will open a Pandoras Box which Israel & her Western backers will come to regret.

  • 04/01/2009 13:53:35 Alert a moderator

    We are at war against a terrorist organization - the Hamas.

    We are at war against a terrorist organization - the Hamas.
    Hamas does not care whether women, children, the sick or elderly will die. It does not care for it's own people!
    They are firing missiles from their streets, from their homes, they have turned their schools and mosques into
    factories manufacturing missiles and bombs! People in the south of Israel have been suffering for more than 8 years
    from being fired at around the clock with no justified reason! children cannot sleep at night, people are in
    prolonged anxiety. No goverment in the world would suffer for so long and not retaliate. But when Israel
    does this to protect our right to exist, the entire world is against us! Did anyone tell Bush to stop war against Al Qaueda?
    Did they tell him to stop the war in Iraq? Or Putin to stop the war in Chechnia and Georgia? Every country in the
    world saves its right to defend its citizens, but when it comes to Israel that has been targeted for the past 8 years
    by Hamas missiles, whos civillians are killed in terroris attacks by barbarians that allow themselves to destroy us
    just because we are Jewish! we never get the right to live in peace! It is time that everyone understand, we are
    here to stay, it is our land, and whoever has a problem with it can go to he_ _! Let us live in peace!

  • 04/01/2009 13:45:49 Alert a moderator

    Let us live in peace!

    We are at war against a terrorist organization - the Hamas.
    Hamas does not care whether women, children, the sick or elderly will die. It does not care for it's own people!
    They are firing missiles from their streets, from their homes, they have turned their schools and mosques into
    factories manufacturing missiles and bombs! People in the south of Israel have been suffering for more than 8 years
    from being fired at around the clock with no justified reason! children cannot sleep at night, people are in
    prolonged anxiety. No goverment in the world would suffer for so long and not retaliate. But when Israel
    does this to protect our right to exist, the entire world is against us! Did anyone tell Bush to stop war against Al Qaueda?
    Did they tell him to stop the war in Iraq? Or Putin to stop the war in Chechnia and Georgia? Every country in the
    world saves its right to defend its citizens, but when it comes to Israel that has been targeted for the past 8 years
    by Hamas missiles, whos civillians are killed in terroris attacks by barbarians that allow themselves to destroy us
    just because we are Jewish! we never get the right to live in peace! It is time that everyone understand, we are
    here to stay, it is our land, and whoever has a problem with it can go to he**! Let us live in peace!

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    Vidéo

    • IN THE FIELD

      "In the past military officials have been very reluctant to commit ground troops to an operation." Annette Young reports from Jerusalem, 30/12/08.

    • IN THE FIELD

      "There is no sign that Isreali army is keeping open all possibilities" - Lucas Menget, correspondent Southern Israel (17H GMT +1)

    • IN THE FIELD

      "The situation is very tense here at the Rafah border crossing." Ygal Saadoun, France 24 special correspondant in Rafah, Egypt, 30/12/08.

    • Benjamin Netanyahu

      Former Israeli Prime Minister, head of Likud Party, Jerusalem, 30/12 12:30pm (GMT+1)

    • REPORT

      Arafat's death left a void in Gaza soon filled by Hamas, 30/12

    • 'Gaza streets are empty'

      Iyad Nasr, spokesperson, ICRC, 30/12 9am (GMT+1)

    • REPORT

      EU Emergency meeting scheduled in Paris on Gaza Crisis, M. Gaudin, S. Bhattacharyya, 30/12

    • 'This is war and you use the means best available to win'

      Hirsh Goodman, researcher, Institute for National Security Studies, Jerusalem, 30/12 8am (GMT+1)

    • 'There is no restriction to humanitarian aid to Gaza'

      Ygal Palmor, spokesman, Israeli Foreign Ministry, Jerusalem, 30/12 8am (GMT+1)


 

 

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    Passing clouds.  Cool.
    9°C