Violence erupts as Israeli army moves into Gaza

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Violence erupts as Israeli army moves into Gaza


Israel mulls ‘security zone’ after militants fire 2 long-range rockets into city


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13707036/

Updated: 6:47 p.m. CT July 5, 2006


BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip - Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers entered one of Israel's former settlements in northern Gaza on Wednesday night and opened fire on a nearby Palestinian town, Palestinian officials and witnesses said.


Israel's Cabinet decided earlier Wednesday to send the military, which had been carrying out small operations in northern Gaza, deeper into the territory to prevent rocket attacks on southern Israel, and to step up pressure on Palestinian militants who captured an Israeli soldier on June 25 and refused to free him until Israel has released hundreds of Palestinian prisoners.


On Wednesday, militants fired a rocket into the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, the second in two days. Ashkelon's 110,000 people had previously been too far from the Gaza border to be hit by the militants' many homemade rocket attacks. But the militants appear to have obtained or built longer-range rockets.


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Israeli troops advance in Gaza

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/...ier/index.html

Troops, militants battle in northern Gaza

Israel to change 'rules of the game'; more Qassam rockets fired

BEIT HANOUN, Gaza (CNN) -- Israeli military forces occupied a swath of northern Gaza early Thursday after moving troops across the border in a move apparently aimed at denying the militants a launching area for Qassam rockets.

The forces encountered heavy small-arms fire from Palestinian militants as the army pushed into the region late Wednesday, according to CNN's Paula Newton, who was traveling from Israel into Gaza.

The Israel Defense Forces confirmed that its troops had entered northern Gaza.

An Israeli airstrike targeted a Palestinian militant early Thursday in northern Gaza, killing him, the Israel Defense Forces said.

A short time earlier, two Israeli missiles targeted a group of Palestinian militants planting explosives in northern Gaza late Wednesday, the IDF said.

In a separate strike, Palestinian sources said a missile hit a coastal police outpost in Gaza City, killing one policeman and one militant and wounding five others, one critically. The IDF said it was checking the report.

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[Irvine]

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Id like to think that now the Israelis will realize that pulling out of Judea & Samaria would not be a smart move, it would only become like Gaza, only much worse. with even more avaliable and closer targets.

Of course it's wishful thinking on my part

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Israelis create buffer zone in north Gaza

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060706/...l_palestinians

BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip - Israeli forces on Thursday took over the remains of three abandoned Jewish settlements in the northern Gaza Strip and entered a nearby Palestinian town, creating a temporary buffer zone to prevent Palestinian militants from firing rockets at Israel

The army last week launched its largest operation in the coastal area since it withdrew from the territory a year ago. The operation, which followed the capturing of an Israeli soldier, was expanded overnight after militants from the ruling Hamas group fired two homemade rockets at the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, which used to be out of their range.

No one was hurt in the attack on Ashkelon, a city of 110,000, but it infuriated Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who pledged the rocket strikes would have "far-reaching consequences."

Cabinet minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said the Israeli tanks and troops would avoid entering the densely populated towns

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[DawnGrace]

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This rhetoric of "Far reaching consequences" --sure has been thrown around these last days....among other countries as well as the US