Israel hit by rockets from Gaza
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES Israeli children react to a Palestinian rocket attack Wednesday in the southern city of Ashkelon, neighboring
Gaza Militants Bombard Israel With Dozens Of Rockets, Mortars
Then ---Why Did Israel Attack Gaza?
Why has Israel launched the deadliest attacks on Palestinian territory since the 1967 Six Day War?
Israel's onslaught is a reprisal for a week-long barrage of rocket and mortar attacks from Gaza. Israel says it had to safeguard the lives in towns bordering the strip. Palestinians, and many others, believe the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert also ordered the raids to achieve what his government had failed to achieve through other means: the removal from power of Hamas, the Islamist political movement elected to run Gaza in 2006, which it accuses of being controlled by Iran and Syria.
Was the timing a surprise?
The scale and ferocity of the attacks came as a shock to many but tensions had been building after the expiry on 18 December of a ceasefire.
Why did the ceasefire collapse?
Hamas had offered to renew the ceasefire if Israel reopened Gaza's border crossings. The strip had been sealed by Israel in an economic siege aimed at toppling Hamas. The blockade has brought the territory near economic collapse.
Are Israeli domestic politics a factor?
Very much so. Israel is preparing for general elections on 10 February. The prospect of a return to power by the hawk Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the right-wing Likud party, promising tough action against Hamas, has hardened the positions of Israel's more moderate political leaders.
Can Israel achieve its security aims by attacking Hamas so forcefully?
It is difficult to see Israel's action as being anything other than counterproductive, particularly if it escalates and widens the assault. Unless a fresh truce can be negotiated quickly, the hopes raised by the election of Barack Obama to the US Presidency and the possibility of a more engaged US policy seem to have dimmed again.
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After The Israeli's Bombarded Gaza
Israel's onslaught is a reprisal for a week-long barrage of rocket and mortar attacks from Gaza. Israel says it had to safeguard the lives in towns bordering the strip. Palestinians, and many others, believe the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert also ordered the raids to achieve what his government had failed to achieve through other means: the removal from power of Hamas, the Islamist political movement elected to run Gaza in 2006, which it accuses of being controlled by Iran and Syria.
Was the timing a surprise?
The scale and ferocity of the attacks came as a shock to many but tensions had been building after the expiry on 18 December of a ceasefire.
Why did the ceasefire collapse?
Hamas had offered to renew the ceasefire if Israel reopened Gaza's border crossings. The strip had been sealed by Israel in an economic siege aimed at toppling Hamas. The blockade has brought the territory near economic collapse.
Are Israeli domestic politics a factor?
Very much so. Israel is preparing for general elections on 10 February. The prospect of a return to power by the hawk Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the right-wing Likud party, promising tough action against Hamas, has hardened the positions of Israel's more moderate political leaders.
Can Israel achieve its security aims by attacking Hamas so forcefully?
It is difficult to see Israel's action as being anything other than counterproductive, particularly if it escalates and widens the assault. Unless a fresh truce can be negotiated quickly, the hopes raised by the election of Barack Obama to the US Presidency and the possibility of a more engaged US policy seem to have dimmed again.
Read more at The Independent
After The Israeli's Bombarded Gaza
Bodies of Palestinian Policemen killed in the Israeli airstrike
Bodies of Palestinians are seen at Shifa hospital in Gaza December 27, 2008
Bodies of Palestinian Policemen killed in the Israeli airstrike
In this image taken from APTN video, Palestinian men carry two injured children into hospital after Israeli aircraft struck.
Palestinians lift a wounded woman to a vehicle after Israeli air force attacked Gaza City December 27, 2008.
Palestinians help a wounded man after Israeli air force attacked Gaza City December 27, 2008.
Palestinians transport the body of a Palestinian after Israeli air force attacked Gaza City December 27, 2008.
A Palestinian is rushed to hospital after he was wounded in an Israeli air strike on Gaza City.
A wounded Palestinian woman is rushed into hospital in Gaza City December 27, 2008.
Palestinians help a wounded man after Israeli air force attacked Gaza City December 27, 2008
Bodies of Palestinians are seen at Shifa hospital in Gaza December 27, 2008.
An explosion from an Israeli missile strike in the northern Gaza Strip
Smoke and fire are seen after an Israeli air strike in the northern Gaza Strip December 27, 2008
Palestinians inspects a destroyed Hamas police compounds following an Israeli air strike in Gaza December 27, 2008.
Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli air strike in Rafah, a town in the southern Gaza Strip.
The leg of a Hamas policeman is seen between the rubbles following an Israeli air strike in Gaza December 27, 2008
Smoke rises after an Israeli bomb exploded in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip December 27, 2008.
A Palestinian rescue worker inspects damage on a Hamas police compounds following an Israeli air strike in Gaza December 27
Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli air strike in the southern town of Rafah.
A Palestinian man cries over the body of his son following an Israeli air strike in Gaza December 27, 2008.
Palestinian medics recover the body of a dead woman from the rubble of a destroyed Hamas police compound following an Israeli air strike in Gaza December 27, 2008
A Hamas policeman asks for help as others try to recover a body from a destroyed Hamas police compounds following an Israeli air strike in Gaza December 27, 2008
A Palestinian Hamas policeman inspects the destroyed former office of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.
Bodies of Palestinians are seen at Shifa hospital in Gaza December 27, 2008
Palestinians run for cover following an Israeli missile strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008.(AP)
A wounded Hamas policeman lies on the ground following an Israeli air strike in Gaza December 27, 2008.
The body of a Hamas police officer is transported to hospital in Gaza City December 27, 2008.
Bodies of Palestinians are seen at Shifa hospital in Gaza December 27, 2008
A Palestinian woman wounded in Israeli missile strikes is helped into the emergency area at Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008. (AP)
Palestinians gather at the site of a security compound used by the Islamic group Hamas following an Israeli missile strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008.
Bodies of Palestinian Policemen killed in the Israeli airstrike
NOW WHO SUFFERS?
Is it Hamas? Is it Ehud Olmert ? Likud party? Obama? George Bush? The Islamist? Iranians? Syrians? Is it the Egyptians? ....no
IT IS ORDINARY CITIZENS LIKE YOU AND ME....Let's say No to Israeli Violence and Lets Say No to Hamas Violence. LET SAY NO TO VIOLENCE....
VIOLENCE ONLY BEGETS VIOLENCE
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