palestine-israel

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – Israel destroyed the homes of more than a dozen Hamas operatives and bombed one of its mosques on Friday, the seventh day of a blistering offensive in Gaza and the day after a deadly strike killed a prominent Hamas figure.
In what appeared to be a new Israeli tactic, the military called at least some of the houses ahead of time to warn inhabitants of an impending attack. In some cases, it also fired a sound bomb to warn away civilians before flattening the homes with powerful missiles, Palestinians and Israeli defense officials said.

Israel launched the aerial campaign last Saturday in a bid to halt weeks of intensifying Palestinian rocket fire from Gaza. The offensive has dealt a heavy blow to Hamas, but has failed to halt the rocket fire. New attacks Friday struck apartment buildings in a southern Israeli city. No serious injuries were reported.

After destroying Hamas' security compounds, Israel has turned its attention to the group's leadership. In airstrike after airstrike early Friday, Israeli warplanes hit some 20 houses believed to belong to Hamas militants and members of other armed groups, Palestinians said.
They said the Israelis either warned nearby residents by phone or fired a warning missile to reduce civilian casualties. Israeli planes also dropped leaflets east of Gaza giving a confidential phone number and e-mail address for people to report locations of rocket squads. Residents stepped over the leaflets.

Israel used similar tactics during its 2006 war in Lebanon. Most of the targeted homes Friday belonged to activist leaders and appeared to be empty at the time, but one man was killed in a strike that flattened a building in the Jebaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza.

More than 400 Gazans have been killed and some 1,700 have been wounded in the Israeli campaign, Gaza health officials said. The number of combatants and civilians killed is unclear, but Hamas has said around half of the dead are members of its security forces and the U.N. has said more than 60 are civilians, 34 of them children.

Three Israeli civilians and one soldier have also died in the rocket attacks, which have reached deeper into Israel than ever before, bringing an eighth of Israel's population of 7 million within rocket range. The mosque destroyed Friday was known as a Hamas stronghold, and the army said it was used to store weapons. Hamas has boasted that more than 100 of the mosque's worshippers have been killed in the past on missions against Israelis.

It also was identified with Nizar Rayan, the Hamas militant leader killed Thursday when Israel dropped a one-ton bomb on his home. The explosion killed 20 people, including all four of Rayan's wives and 10 of his children. The strike on Rayan's home obliterated the four-story apartment building and peeled off the walls of others around it, carving out a vast field of rubble.
Rayan, 49, ranked among Hamas' top five decision-makers. A professor of Islamic law, he was known for his close ties to the group's military wing and was respected in Gaza for donning combat fatigues and personally participating in clashes against Israeli forces. He sent one of his sons on an October 2001 suicide mission that killed two Israeli settlers in Gaza.
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i feel so sad n useless
i cant do anyting to help them...
my relative...we r muslim..

actually i want to post other thing
but today i feel so sad
that i drop my tears when im thinking bout my relatives in palestine..we r muslim
we shud feel the pain
Muslim countries shud be united to solve this problem
to stop the war
to against israel which we knew has been "laknat" by ALLAH...
which they will kill anyone that is not same religion with them
bcoz their religion said that they are allowed to kill others that not jew...
n Muslim bcome the victims
they never stop using Muslim
if Muslim fight for their right....we will be known as terrorist...
wat does terrorist mean??
invading iraq in 2003 without any clear purpose is call hero???
how i wish i can change the world..
but i know its only dream
however....in the khutbah jumaat today..i heard the imam said we know that one day palestine will get wat is blong to them..ALLAH knows better...He is a GOOD PLANNER...
i believe it..

i just can pray for my relatives in palestine..
hopfully they will b strong to face this problem
i feel so shame that i do sin while my relatives r struggling to protect Islam...
hopfully Muslim countries will be united soon
to against Israel n its allies...
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well...abah called jpa just now..
im going to pre departure briefing nex two weeks in jpa ptrajya n will b going to btn between 19 n 23...hopfully i passed the btn..i willl Njoy it..
it means...i hve to finish recite Quran b4 i go to kl....

thats all for today...
xoxo