Monday, December 29, 2008


The Gaza War will look one sided to many.

Hamas is using random rockets fired even more randomly into the cities around the Gaza Strip that sticks out of Egypt into south Israel. The death toll is one sided. The destruction is one sided.
1. Ashdod: First attack so far north, Sunday 2. Ashkelon: One man killed, several injured in rocket attack, Monday3. Sderot: rocket attacks4. Nevitot: One man killed, several injured in rocket attack, Saturday5. Civilian family reported killed in attack on Yabna refugee camp, Sunday 6. Israeli warplanes strike tunnels under Gaza/Egypt border, Sunday7. Three young brothers reported killed in attack on Rafah, Sunday8. Khan Younis: Four members of Islamic Jihad and a child reported killed, Sunday 9. Deir al-Balah: Palestinians injured, houses and buildings destroyed, Sunday 10. Interior ministry and Islamic University badly damaged, Monday11. Gaza City port: naval vessels targeted, Sunday12. Shati refugee camp: Home of Hamas leader Ismail Hanniyeh targeted, Monday13. Intelligence building attacked, Sunday14. Jebaliya refugee camp: several people killed in attack on mosque, Sunday
Link: <http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=gaza+City&ie=UTF8&ll=31.536408,34.444885&spn=0.626194,1.018982&z=10>

One medium-range rocket fired at the Israeli city of Ashkelon killed an Arab construction worker there Monday, he was the second Israeli killed since the beginning of the offensive, and the first person ever to be killed by a rocket in Ashkelon, a city of 120,000.

While on the other side of the Gaza wall, the three-day death toll rose to at least 315 by Monday morning, with some 1,400 wounded. The U.N. said at least 51 of the dead were civilians, and medics said eight children under the age of 17 were killed in two separate strikes overnight. Israel launched its campaign, the deadliest against Palestinians in decades, on Saturday in retaliation for rocket fire aimed at civilians in southern Israeli towns.

There is no question that Hamas started this round when a truce ended, but every action that Israel takes with superior force against military related targets will raise the toll of dead and wounded civilians in this heavy populated city of Gaza.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/28407173#28407173


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7803711.stm

Israel targeted military launch sites on the first day, Military supply sites including tunnels and university chemistry labs on the second day, and today it is Hamas offices and government buildings (and Hamas leader's homes)... soon it will be power and water plants and an invasion.

So, it is going to look very one sided when it ends.

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