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Jerusalem News-830
Jerusalem News-830
5 Tevet 5769, 1 January 2009
Contents:
1. Czechs Back Israel
2. Israeli Forces Bomb Arab Nazi Forces
3. Update on Gaza War
1. Czechs Back Israel
From: Guysen International News <webmaster@guysen.com>
Subject: Guysen International News - Mailinfo December 31, 2008
12:59 The Czech Republic has backed Israel's right to defend itself. Czech
foreign minister Karel Schwartzenberg said in the paper Mlada Fronta Dnes that
''the Hamas has progeressively stepped up its rocket launchings onto Israel
since the end of the truce, and the situation is unacceptable.'' (Guysen.International.News)
2. Israeli Forces Bomb Arab Nazis
IAF attacks Khan Younis rocket factory
By JPOST.COM STAFF, YAAKOV KATZ AND AP
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1230456538553&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Extracts:
The IAF attacked a rocket-manufacturing factory in Khan Younis on
Wednesday evening, Israel Radio reported.
The air force also attacked targets inside Gaza City, the station reported.
Earlier Wednesday, the air force bombed a Gaza City mosque and destroyed a large
number of rockets hidden inside.
Channel 10 reported that the IAF had received high-level orders to hit the
mosque after Hamas terror operatives had run there with several rockets and
Grad-type missiles.
The army said that the mosque, located in the western part of Gaza City, was
used to store weapons and explosives and that terrorists had been using the
building as cover when firing rockets at southern Israel.
The most recent rocket launch from the mosque occurred on Wednesday morning, the
military said in a statement.
The strike set off numerous secondary explosions, caused by the munitions
stockpiled in the mosque. In recent days joint IDF and ISA intelligence efforts
produced information that terrorists were hoarding weapons in the mosque and
carrying out rocket attacks against Israeli communities from its grounds, as
well as using it as a place of hiding, the IDF said.
Meanwhile, a senior IDF officer said that IAF fighter jets had carried out some
500 sorties against Hamas targets in Gaza in Operation Cast Lead and helicopters
had flown hundreds more combat missions.
The officer claimed 95 percent of the intended targets were hit. He said all
efforts were made to avoid civilian casualties, including calling residents on
their phones to warn them their buildings were about to be hit.
The officer spoke on condition of anonymity in line with military regulations.
Gaza officials put the death toll at more than 390 dead and 1,600 wounded since
the operation began on Saturday. Hamas said some 200 uniformed members of Hamas
security forces had been killed, and the UN reported that at least 60
Palestinian civilians had died.
Meanwhile, Israel said it would allow 2,000 tons of food and medical supplies to
enter Gaza on Wednesday, in addition to 4,000 tons the military says have been
allowed in since the offensive began. Several dozen chronically ill and wounded
Gazans were also authorized to enter Israel for treatment Wednesday, the
military said.
On Wednesday morning, the IAF struck targets in the northern Gaza Strip. Most of
the attacks were reportedly directed against rocket launchers that were being
used in the intense bombardment of southern Israel, while one strike was said to
target a senior member of the Islamic Jihad.
The Islamic Jihad commander was reportedly killed in the airstrike, in the
southern Gaza town of Khan Yunis.
Also Wednesday, the air force attacked Hamas installations and government
buildings in the Gaza Strip, including the office of the organization's prime
minister, Ismail Haniyeh.
The army said that the IAF had attacked 35 additional targets overnight,
including tunnels in the Rafah border area, weapons storage facilities, Hamas
outposts and an armed rocket launcher.
Navy forces also attacked a number of targets in the Gaza Strip, including Hamas
outposts, training camps, guarding vessels used by Hamas naval forces and
launching posts used to fire rockets at Israel.
Earlier Tuesday night, the air force bombed the launcher of the Grad-model
rockets that were fired at Beersheba, as well as the cell responsible for the
attacks. The army said it successfully hit its target.
Palestinian sources said that some 390 people had been killed since the
beginning of Operation Cast Lead on Saturday.
3. Update on Gaza War
Extracts:
4 rockets hit south as 'special situation' status extended to 40
kilometers from Gaza border
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1051235.html
By Yanir Yagna, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Staff and News Agencies
Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday evening fired four more
rockets into Israel, with two hitting Be'er Sheva and two others falling in
Netivot and the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council area. No injuries or damage were
reported.
A barrage of more than 60 Katyusha and Qassam rockets hit the western Negev
Wednesday, with several rockets exploding in the cities of Ashkelon and Be'er
Sheva, previously thought to be beyond the range of Palestinian rockets.
A Grad rocket fired by the militants struck directly into an empty schoolhouse
in Be'er Sheva on Wednesday morning, 37 kilometers from the coastal territory.
Earlier, two rockets exploded in open fields near the Negev city. No injuries or
damage was reported.
Two Palestinian projectiles also hit Ashkelon on Wednesday morning, injuring one
person lightly. Medics treated a number of bystanders for shock. The town of
Yavneh, north of Ashdod, was also hit on Wednesday morning, but no injuries or
damage were reported.
A total of some 40 rockets hit Israel on Wednesday, though hundreds have been
fired since the fighting began over the weekend. Four Israelis have been killed
in rocket attacks since Saturday.
Two Katyusha rockets fired by militants in the Gaza Strip exploded Tuesday
evening in Be'er Sheva region. This was the furthest point eastward which a
Palestinian projectile has managed to reach.
One of the rockets on the area struck a children's playground. Nobody was
wounded in the attack, but 34 people were treated for shock.
More than 40 rockets at the western Negev on Tuesday, including one which
reached the vicinity of the Bedouin town of Rahat and Ofakim, both west of Be'er
Sheva.
A rocket fired in the afternoon scored a direct hit on a kibbutz dining hall in
the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council. There were no injuries in the incident, but
the building sustained severe damage.
Channel Two television reported earlier Tuesday that rockets exploded in the
western Negev towns of Kiryat Malachi and Kiryat Gat.
A Qassam rocket struck a home in the western Negev town of Sderot on Tuesday.
One person sustained minor shrapnel wounds, and three others suffered shock.
No occupants were at home when the projectile slammed into the house. Another
Qassam rocket hit the backyard of a Sderot home, while five others exploded in
open areas near Sderot.
Other rockets caused some damage to hothouses in the Eshkol region.
The attacks came after Palestinian rockets had killed three Israelis on Monday,
and wounded nine more, one of them critically.
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