Israeli Airstrikes In Gaza Kill Over 200

ISRAELI AIRSTRIKES IN GAZA YESTERDAY 27 DEC 2008







Israeli warplanes retaliating for rocket fire from the Gaza Strip pounded dozens of security compounds across the Hamas-ruled territory in unprecedented waves of airstrikes Saturday, killing more than 200 people and
wounding nearly 400 in the single bloodiest day of fighting in years.

Most of those killed were security men, but an unknown number of civilians were also among the dead. Hamas said all of its security installations were hit, threatened to resume suicide attacks, and sent at least 50 rockets crashing into Israeli border communities, according to the Israeli military's count. One Israeli was killed and at least six people were wounded in the rocket attacks.

With so many wounded, the Palestinian death toll was likely to rise.

The strikes caused widespread panic and confusion in Gaza, as black clouds of smoke rose above the territory, ruled by Hamas for the past 18 months. Some of the Israeli missiles struck in densely populated areas as children were leaving school, and women rushed into the streets frantically looking for their children.

Said Masri sat in the middle of a Gaza City street, close to a security compound, alternately slapping his face and covering his head with dust from the bombed-out building.

"My son is gone, my son is gone," wailed Masri, 57. The shopkeeper said he sent his 9-year-old son out to purchase cigarettes minutes before the airstrikes began and now could not find him. "May I burn like the cigarettes, may Israel burn," Masri moaned.

The offensive began eight days after a six-month truce between Israel and the militants expired. During that time, the military says, rocket and mortar squads have fired 200 projectiles at Israeli targets, and in recent days, Israeli leaders had been voicing strong threats to launch a major offensive.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said Israel would expand the operation if necessary. "There is a time for calm and there is a time for fighting, and now is the time for fighting," he told a news conference. He did not say whether a ground offensive was planned.

Asked earlier if Hamas political leaders might be targeted next, military spokeswoman Maj. Avital Leibovich said, "Any Hamas target is a target."

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, the Vatican, the U.N. and special Mideast envoy Tony Blair all called for an immediate restoration of calm, and the Arab League scheduled an emergency meeting Sunday to discuss the situation.

President Bush was briefed on the situation in Israel and Gaza during his daily intelligence briefing at 7:30 a.m. CST on Saturday, reports CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller. Mr. Bush also spoke by phone to Secretary of State Rice to discuss the Middle East.

Wats da use Of fyting !!
loss Of innocent souls. .Un-bearable pain ewww !!

Because what's happening in Gaza-Palestine (Israel) is by all standards a Genocide, committed by the Israeli Occupation army. Today, more than 206 people were killed, in less than 3 hours, after almost two years of a merciless siege on 1.5 million people, 800,000 of whom are refugees. Gaza has indeed become "Israel's most secure prison", and today, thousands have been injured and more than 200 killed, only to "mark the beginning of an Israeli operation in Gaza", according to Ehud Barak, Defense Minister in the Israeli government.

WE WOULD SAY :
Stop the bombing! Stop the genocide! :|

To the Israeli people and military and politicians: Don't you realize? Can't you understand what you are doing? Was the second world war too long ago, so you cannot remember? Open the borders to the Gaza Strip "concentration camp" now!
You are bombing innocent people! Stop it! You are killing people, humans! Do you think that noone can see or hear?
I can understand that some of palestine people gather into groups like hamas to try to show you how mad and frustrated they are. I do not like that they take up terror acts and blow up innocent israeli people. But i do understand their desperation.
What Israeli military are doing right now, are just creating many more future terror attacks from the Gaza strip.
Guns don't kill people, people kill people.
Stop. Lay down all your weapons. Let food and medicine transports reach people in need. They have nothing, at least let them be humans. :|

STOP IT, STOP IT .. :|
To All Muslims, To all Christians, To all People who have an atom of mercy in their hearts. LETS PRAY FOR THEM.
lets say stop this !!

God is with you Gaza, God will be really with you :|

Regards.
Dids











GOD, please save the misbegotten war in the holy lands :|

yes right dids ....

now even israel again bombed gaza about 110 bombs last night.
always innocence peoples tobe victim in a war .....