BREAKING NEWS: ISRAELI GROUND FORCES ENTER GAZA

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Last updated: 2:59 pm
January 3, 2009
Posted: 2:01 pm
January 3, 2009

Israeli tanks and infantry entered Gaza after nightfall Saturday, launching a ground offensive that the military said would be a "lengthy operation" in a widening war on Gaza's Hamas rulers.

Heavy gun battles were reported as troops crossed the border into Gaza. Local TV networks broadcast images of troops marching into Gaza after dark.

"We have many many targets," Maj. Avital Leibovich told CNN. "To my estimation, it will be a lengthy operation." She said the goal of the operation was to take over the areas used by militants to launch rockets against Israel.

"The civilians are not our target, only militants, Hamas militants," she said.

Defense officials have said around 10,000 soldiers massed along the border in recent days. Heavy artillery fire in the early evening was intended to detonate Hamas explosive devices and mines planted along the border area before troops marched in.

It was not immediately clear how deep into Gaza the Israeli forces would go.

Israel's offensive against Hamas had begun with a week of aerial bombardment of Hamas target. Israel had held off on a ground offensive, in part because of concern about casualties among Israeli troops.

Hamas leaders have warned that they have prepared a violent welcome. They have also threatened to resume suicide attacks inside Israel.

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[MrSpiritus001]

STOP THIS GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE !!

WARCRIMINALS BELONG IN PRISON.

FALS ZIONIST? PROPAGANDA SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED.

PALESTINE IS FOR AND FROM THE PALESTINIANS.

DONOT SUPPORT THE THIEF.

DONOT SUPPORT THE KILLER.

UNBELIEVABLE !!

THAT PEOPLE CAN SUPORT GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE.

ALMOST OPENLY WARCRIMES AND OTHER ATROCITIES ARE COMMITTED BY ZIONISTS,WITH SUPORT? OF THE USA GOVERNMENT.

ZIONISTS COME/CAME OUT OF EUROPE,AND CANNOT RIGHTFULL CLAIM PALESTINE.

[MrSpiritus001]

I SAW A LIST OF TOWNS AND VILAGES WHICH HAS ERADED FROM THIS PLANET BY THE ZIONISTS !!!

HUNDREDS, HUNDREDS OF VILAGES !!!

IT TOOK MY BREATH, IT WAS AS IF MY MIND NEEDED SILENCE.

ALL THIS EXTERMINATION IS/WAS PLANNED, AND IN FULL AWARENESS.

NO ANIMAL,NO HUMAN, BUT WHAT KIND OF SPIECES? CAN COMMIT THIS ?

(one example folows.)

[MrSpiritus001]

DEIR YASSIN MASSACRE

Two hundred and fifty people were slaughtered. Mutilating the bodies,EVEN BEFORE DEATH, the culprits cut off parts and opened the bellies of others. Nursing babies were butchered on the bosoms of helpless mothers.

[MrSpiritus001]

Of those two hundred and fifty people, twenty-five pregnant women were bayoneted in their abdomens while still alive. Fifty-two children were maimed under the eyes of their own mothers, and then they were slain and their heads cut off. Their mothers were in turn massacred and their bodies mutilated. About sixty other women and girls were also killed and their bodies mutilated. Such are the historical facts concerning the horrible crime perpetrated against the Arab village of Deir Yassin.

[MrSpiritus001]

the peaceful Arab village of Deir Yassin, a suburb of Jerusalem, was surprised by loudspeakers calling upon the inhabitants to evacuate the village immediately. The villagers woke up and, in a state of turmoil and fear, proceeded to investigate what was going on, only to find themselves surrounded on all sides by Jewish gangs. The Jews made use of the prevailing state of fright and disorganization by killing and mutilating people who had been deprived of every opportunity to defend themselves.

[MrSpiritus001]

The marauders were not satisfied with the crimes they had committed in the village. They gathered together the women and girls who were still alive, and after removing all their clothes, put them in open cars, driving them naked through the streets of the Jewish section of Jerusalem, where they were subjected to the mockery and insult of the onlookers. Many took photographs of those women.

[MrSpiritus001]

The representative of the Red Cross, Mr. Jacques Reynier, asked the Jewish Agency for permission to visit the site of the massacre. The granting of this permission was delayed twenty four hours while the Jews tried to erase the traces of their crimes. They gathered together all that was possible to collect of the parts of the mutilated bodies of their victims, dumped them in the cistern of the village and locked it up.

[MrSpiritus001]

They did all they could to obliterate any traces that the representative of the Red Cross could come across. On visiting the site of the crime, however, the representative of the Red Cross discovered the cistern, and found one hundred and fifty maimed bodies of women and children. He could express his horror, disgust and fright at the sight only by declaring that "the situation was horrible."

[MrSpiritus001]

In addition to the bodies that he had found in the cistern, the representative of the Red Cross discovered many other corpses scattered throughout the backstreets of the village and buried under the debris of the destroyed homes. Mr. Reynier found under a mound of dead bodies a girl of six who had been seriously wounded, but was not yet dead. He extracted the girl from under the human debris and carried her with him to the hospital.

[MrSpiritus001]

All the Jewish Agency (the body responsible at that time for the activities of the Jewish gangs) did was to express its sorrow and condemn the affair.

( as if it had been completely unaware of it.)