Hamas fired dozens of rockets at Israel on Wednesday

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Let the games begin

GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas fired dozens of rockets at Israel on Wednesday after Israeli forces killed six Palestinian militants in an eruption of violence that disrupted a four-month-old truce along the Gaza frontier.

The rocket attacks, which included salvoes that landed in the coastal Israeli city of Ashkelon, caused no casualties. Sources in Hamas, an Islamist group that runs the Gaza Strip, said calm could return if Israel did not retaliate.

A breakdown of the Egyptian-brokered Gaza truce would pose yet another challenge to U.S. efforts, opposed by Hamas, to achieve a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.

Egypt has been working to extend the ceasefire beyond its agreed six-month duration and, in conjunction with other Arab countries, to reconcile Hamas and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction at a summit in Cairo next week.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in the region on Thursday amid few hopes Israel and Abbas can meet Washington's target date of an agreement this year.

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has said resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be a priority for his administration.

On Tuesday, Israeli airstrikes killed five militants and Israeli soldiers shot dead a gunman during an incursion into the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces quit the coastal enclave in 2005 and Hamas seized the territory from Fatah two years later.

The Israeli military said the aircraft went into action after militants attacked soldiers who entered the Gaza Strip to destroy a tunnel that Hamas had planned to use to kidnap Israeli soldiers.

Militants from Hamas and several other militant groups tunneled into Israel from the Gaza Strip in 2006 and seized Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who is still being held at a secret location in the territory.

Hamas has offered to release him in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli prisons, including militants who killed Israelis. Israel has not agreed to the terms.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/i...E4A37B520081105

[Ban Hammer 13,643]

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has said resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be a priority for his administration.

good luck with that, obama.

Hamas has offered to release him in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli prisons, including militants who killed Israelis. Israel has not agreed to the terms.

what a deal! hundreds for 1!

[mawilson 2,133]

Celebrating the Obama victory?

[Sister Fracas 5]

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has said resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be a priority for his administration.

good luck with that, obama.

said dripping with sarcasm....

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Celebrating the Obama victory?

You know it.

[Ban Hammer 13,643]

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has said resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be a priority for his administration.

good luck with that, obama.

said dripping with sarcasm....

many have tried and failed. do you really think he'll do better than those before him?

[Sister Fracas 5]

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has said resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be a priority for his administration.

good luck with that, obama.

said dripping with sarcasm....

many have tried and failed. do you really think he'll do better than those before him?

did I say that?

[Ban Hammer 13,643]

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has said resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be a priority for his administration.

good luck with that, obama.

said dripping with sarcasm....

many have tried and failed. do you really think he'll do better than those before him?

did I say that?

nor did i say the above with sarcasm.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has said resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be a priority for his administration.

good luck with that, obama.

said dripping with sarcasm....

many have tried and failed. do you really think he'll do better than those before him?

Yes, Obama will fix it all.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has said resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be a priority for his administration.

good luck with that, obama.

said dripping with sarcasm....

many have tried and failed. do you really think he'll do better than those before him?

Yes, Obama will fix it all.

Hamas believes Israel has lost an ally.

[Nagishkaw 510]

Yup, business as usual.

[Amby 490]

Celebrating the Obama victory?

...

U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has said resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be a priority for his administration.

good luck with that, obama.

Hamas has offered to release him in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli prisons, including militants who killed Israelis. Israel has not agreed to the terms.

what a deal! hundreds for 1!

charles you're so optimistic

[mawilson 2,133]

Hamas believes Israel has lost an ally.

Latest news:

Israel sends tanks into Gaza

Jerusalem Israeli tanks entered the southern Gaza Strip yesterday, drawing mortar fire

from Palestinian militants and undermining a tenuous truce. The tanks, backed by a

bulldozer, drove 500 metres into the strip and levelled earth near Rafah, Gaza’s

southeastern border crossing with Egypt. Israel said that the operation was mounted to

uncover explosives, while the Palestinians accused Israel of trying to increase violence.

The latest fighting began two weeks ago and there is now a near-daily cycle of mortar

attacks on southern Israeli towns and Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.

link

Nov 4 = two weeks ago today

Hmmm.....

[Ban Hammer 13,643]

Hamas believes Israel has lost an ally.

Latest news:

Israel sends tanks into Gaza

Jerusalem Israeli tanks entered the southern Gaza Strip yesterday, drawing mortar fire

from Palestinian militants and undermining a tenuous truce. The tanks, backed by a

bulldozer, drove 500 metres into the strip and levelled earth near Rafah, Gaza’s

southeastern border crossing with Egypt. Israel said that the operation was mounted to

uncover explosives, while the Palestinians accused Israel of trying to increase violence.

The latest fighting began two weeks ago and there is now a near-daily cycle of mortar

attacks on southern Israeli towns and Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.

link

Nov 4 = two weeks ago today

Hmmm.....

shooting mortars at tanks. what a bunch of idiots.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

Hamas believes Israel has lost an ally.

Latest news:

Israel sends tanks into Gaza

Jerusalem Israeli tanks entered the southern Gaza Strip yesterday, drawing mortar fire

from Palestinian militants and undermining a tenuous truce. The tanks, backed by a

bulldozer, drove 500 metres into the strip and levelled earth near Rafah, Gaza’s

southeastern border crossing with Egypt. Israel said that the operation was mounted to

uncover explosives, while the Palestinians accused Israel of trying to increase violence.

The latest fighting began two weeks ago and there is now a near-daily cycle of mortar

attacks on southern Israeli towns and Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.

link

Nov 4 = two weeks ago today

Hmmm.....

shooting mortars at tanks. what a bunch of idiots.

And how!!