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Gaza residents breach Egypt border; Israel bombs 40 smuggling tunnels
By Haaretz Service and News Agencies
Tags: Israel news, Hamas, Gaza 


Gaza residents on Sunday breached the border fence with Egypt in several places and hundreds have crossed the frontier prompting Egyptian border guards to open fire, said officials and witnesses on both sides of the border.

The breach came one day after Israel launched the largest Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip since it captured the territory in 1967, leaving some 286 people dead and scores wounded.
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An Egyptian security official said there were at least five breaches along the 9 mile (14 kilometer) border and hundreds of Palestinian residents were pouring in.

At least 300 Egyptian border guards rushed to the area to reseal the border, the official added on condition on anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press.

A resident of the Gaza Strip side of the border, Fida Kishta, said that Egyptian border guards opened fire to drive back the Palestinians. Residents also commandeered a bulldozer to open new breaches.

Egyptian state television reported that Hamas security forces shot an Egyptian border guard and killed him. An Egyptian security source said Hamas forces had also shot an Egyptian policeman in the leg.

The border breach came shortly after Israel Defense Forces aircraft bombed more than 40 tunnels linking the blockaded Gaza Strip with Egypt's Sinai desert.

"The air force just attacked over 40 tunnels found on the Gaza side of the border. Those tunnels, we believe, were used for smuggling weapons, explosives and sometimes people," an IDF spokeswoman told reporters.

Palestinian sources reported that two people had been killed in the strike. Witnesses said that fires raged in the area and that dozens of explosions were heard.

Meanwhile Sunday, the IDF announced its intention to call up 6,700 reservists to duty, as the operation in Gaza continued.

"The Israel Defense Forces will, in the coming days, call up more reservists," Cabinet secretary Oved Yehezkel told reporters after ministers met for a special session Sunday to discuss the operation.

Defense officials said some reservists had already been mobilized to help in protecting communities on the Gaza border from retaliatory Palestinian rocket salvoes. New reservists would help complete the armed forces'
preparations for a possible escalation of the fighting, an official said.

Earlier Sunday, hundreds of IDF infantry and armored corps troops headed for the Gaza Strip border in preparation for a possible ground invasion, military officials said.





Israel Air Force warplanes struck at least 60 Palestinian targets in the Gaza Strip early Sunday. The death toll had climbed to 286 by Sunday afternoon, according to Al-Jazeera. The targets of the strikes on Sunday included a mosque and a TV station.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak, meanwhile, ordered the Rafah crossing to Gaza partially opened to allow in medical supplies and basic humanitarian aid.

"Operation Cast Lead" began around 11:30 A.M on Saturday as 64 aircraft delivered over 100 tons of explosives on 50 to 100 Hamas targets in the Strip, and was the largest Israeli operation on Gaza since 1967.

Barak told Sky News on Saturday that he would not rule out widening the offensive in the Gaza Strip to include a ground invasion.

"There is a time for calm and a time for fighting, and now the time has come to fight," he said.

Barak on Saturday also said Israel "cannot really accept" a cease-fire with Hamas, rejecting calls by the United Nations and the European Union for a truce.

"For us to be asked to have a cease-fire with Hamas is like asking you to have a cease-fire with Al-Qaida," Barak said in an interview with Fox News. "It's something we cannot really accept."

Asked whether Israel would follow up the air strikes with a ground offensive, Barak said, "If boots on the ground will be needed, they will be there."

"Our intention is to totally change the rules of the game," he added.

In the first attack early Sunday, Palestinians said Israeli aircraft bombed a mosque near Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, destroying it. Two bodies were retrieved from the rubble. The blast, just after midnight, blew out windows at the hospital, hospital officials said. The military said the mosque was a base for terrorist activities.

Another target early Sunday was the Al Aqsa TV station used by Hamas. Its studio building was destroyed, but the station remained on the air with a mobile unit. Palestinians counted about 20 airstrikes in the first hours of Sunday.

The massive offensive was launched in response to the unceasing rocket and mortar attacks that have traumatized southern Israel, despite a six-month truce intended to halt cross-border violence.

Palestinian militants continued to fire rockets at southern Israel on Sunday, even as the IAF continued to bomb the coastal territory.

In Israel, Netivot resident Bebert Vaknin was killed and six other Israelis were wounded when Palestinian rockets struck the western Negev.

Three Hamas officers among 230 killed in IAF strikes

Twelve hours after the strike was launched Saturday morning, at least 230 people had been killed and 780 wounded, bringing hospital services to the brink of collapse.

Of thePalestinians killed on Saturday, most were militants. The fatalities included three senior Hamas officers: Tawfik Jabber, the commander of Hamas' police force in Gaza; his adjutant, Ismail al-Ja'abri, commander of the defense and security directorate; and Abu-Ahmad Ashur, Hamas' Gaza central district governor.

Hamas vowed harsh retaliation for the attacks. "The Israeli occupation needs to know that it has cast itself into the fire," said Abu Ubeida, spokesman for the organization's military wing, the Iz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades.

The unprecedented assault sparked protests and condemnations throughout the Arab world, while many of Israel's Western allies urged restraint, though the U.S. blamed Hamas for the fighting.

But there seemed to be no end in sight. Israel obliquely threatened to go after Hamas' leaders, and militants kept pelting Israel with rockets.

In a televised statement Saturday evening, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the goal was to bring about a fundamental improvement in the security situation of the residents of the southern part of the country. He added, "It could take some time."

At least 15 civilians killed in Saturday strikes

The Israeli air strikes caused widespread panic and confusion, and black plumes of smoke billowed above the territory, ruled by the Islamic militant Hamas for the past 18 months. Some of the Israeli missiles struck in densely populated areas as students were leaving school, and women rushed into the streets frantically looking for their children. At least 15 civilians were killed, officials said.

"My son is gone, my son is gone," wailed Said Masri, a 57-year-old shopkeeper, as he sat in the middle of a Gaza City street, slapping his face and covering his head with dust from a bombed-out security compound nearby.

He said he had sent his 9-year-old son out to purchase cigarettes minutes before the airstrikes began and could not find him. "May I burn like the cigarettes, may Israel burn," Masri moaned.

Militants often operate against Israel from civilian areas, and that has led to steep civilian casualties in the past when Israel has retaliated. Late Saturday, thousands of Gazans received Arabic-language voice mails on their cell phones from the Israel Defense Forces, urging them to leave homes where militants might have stashed weapons.

The offensive began eight days after a six-month truce between Israel and the militants expired. The Israeli army says Palestinian militants have fired some 300 rockets and mortars at Israeli targets over the past week, and 10 times that number over the past year.

In Gaza City's main security compound, bodies of more than a dozen uniformed Hamas police lay on the ground. Civilians rushed wounded people in cars and vans to hospitals because there weren't enough ambulances to transport all the dead and wounded.

"There are heads without bodies.... There's blood in the corridors. People are weeping, women are crying, doctors are shouting," said nurse Ahmed Abdel Salaam from Shifa Hospital, Gaza's main treatment center.

Military officials said aircraft released more than 100 tons of bombs in the first nine hours of fighting, focusing initially on militant training camps, rocket-manufacturing facilities and weapons warehouses that had been identified in advance.

A second wave was directed at squads who fired about 80 rockets and mortars at Israeli border communities. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said Hamas' political leaders could soon be targeted. "Hamas is a terrorist organization and nobody is immune," she declared.

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      1.   100 tons of bombs 04:13  |  Bretware 28/12/08
      2.   Hamas 04:15  |  Mike 28/12/08
      3.   "These People Are Nothing But Thugs" White House Spokesman 04:28  |  Eli 28/12/08
      4.   Mosque cesspools of vitriol have to be destroyed too 04:35  |  Genuine Tosefta 28/12/08
      5.   GAZA: RESTORATION OF CALM REQUESTED 04:42  |  Roberto 28/12/08
      6.   These people are nothing but thugs, so Israel is going to defend 04:44  |  Levi 28/12/08
      7.   J Post Reports Abbas Ready to Take Gaza if Israel Takes 04:50  |  GZLives 28/12/08
      8.   Uh, did someone say "truce?" 04:53  |  MichaelF 28/12/08
      9.   We Must Accomodate Hamas Quickly 05:13  |  Eli 28/12/08
      10.   Israel and the US are thugs 05:18  |  Marilyn 28/12/08
      11.   Look what Israel has wrought! 05:19  |  Silvienne 28/12/08
      12.   Bold As Brass or back to Square One 05:19  |  Jim 28/12/08
      13.   AP an Israeli Propaganda Organization Now? 06:28  |  Arik Silverman 28/12/08
      14.   Hamas should kill Gilad Shalit now 07:19  |  Rasta 28/12/08
      15.   "rejected calls by the UN and EU for truce" 07:21  |  Silvienne 28/12/08
      16.   mouse squeaks 07:25  |  ron 28/12/08
      17.   Anybody seen BBCNews? 07:41  |  Silvienne 28/12/08
      18.   Israel cannot stop till Hamas no longer exists. 07:46  |  Judea 28/12/08
      19.   THEY GOT IT. 07:54  |  BOB KING 28/12/08
      20.   be smart, not right 07:58  |  smarty 28/12/08
      21.   ""These people are nothing but thugs..." 08:01  |  Colin Wright 28/12/08
      22.   Coexistence is a myth. 08:23  |  Jean Van Daem 28/12/08
      23.   The 2000 year war 08:46  |  TERRY 28/12/08
      24.   "Israeli Aircraft Bombed A Mosque" 08:54  |  Clickfool 28/12/08
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      30.   The time has come 09:20  |  TERRY 28/12/08
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      34.   A day will come for Israel 09:30  |  M Be 28/12/08
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      37.   BLOOD THIRSTY ISRAEL 09:32  |  johnj 28/12/08
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      40.   Clickfool 09:33  |  Peter Williams 28/12/08
      41.   Israel attack on Gaza 09:35  |  A 28/12/08
      42.   I insist my children to watch the horrible scenes 09:36  |  palestinian 28/12/08
      43.   Terry in Johansburg 09:42  |  ClearCut 28/12/08
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      45.   To Yo C 09:42  |  Oleg 28/12/08
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      48.   Israel will Fall 09:48  |  Wili 28/12/08
      49.   THE OPPOSITE DESIRED EFFECT WILL HAPPEN 09:48  |  Samy 28/12/08
      50.   Mice might turn into great big rats..... 09:52  |  Palestinian Brit 28/12/08
      51.   #10, clearcut, Israel is no targeting civilians 09:54  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 28/12/08
      52.   Israeli Aircraft Bombed a Mosque 09:54  |  Spencer 28/12/08
      53.   Hamas 09:54  |  Rodney Stack 28/12/08
      54.   #Clear Cut 09:54  |  TERRY 28/12/08
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      56.   response to a day will come for israel 09:56  |  mgeraldfried 28/12/08
      57.   #13 M be 09:56  |  Barrie 28/12/08
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      60.   #31, Tzfonit 10:00  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 28/12/08
      61.   No31. Why pause? No come on in and face the welcome! 10:01  |  Palestinian Brit 28/12/08
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      68.   tO Palestinian Brit 10:10  |  oLEG 28/12/08
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      70.   A Rubin 10:16  |  Ehud 28/12/08
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      73.   #26, johnj, "blood thirsty" 10:18  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 28/12/08
      74.   Silly Colon 10:21  |  SDHD 28/12/08
      75.   Palestinian teaching his children to hate Jews 10:22  |  SDHD 28/12/08
      76.   to 55 : since 1948 how many civilians u had killed 10:23  |  palestinian 28/12/08
      77.   While fighting, we must send a clear message to rightists 10:24  |  Northern 28/12/08
      78.   Zwygart re Palestinian 10:24  |  ClearCut 28/12/08
      79.   Israel hits 10:26  |  PARIS 28/12/08
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      85.   They like to kill jews, no it`s time to pay... 10:36  |  jean 28/12/08
      86.   Hamas leaders are ready to die, but are hiding like rats 10:37  |  maurice 28/12/08
      87.   palestinian 10:38  |  Philippe 28/12/08
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      90.   The morning after.... 10:40  |  Esther 28/12/08
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      92.   is this what we call "JUSTICE"??? 10:43  |  Erich Oskar Huetter 28/12/08
      93.   Maureen Ann answer: Israel did NOT bomb hospital 10:47  |  x-ray 28/12/08
      94.   it`s all about perception 10:53  |  Capt Ahab 28/12/08
      95.   Suffer your poor children, as you suffer from your warped morals 10:54  |  lily 28/12/08
      96.   Anyone seen Al Jazeera news? 10:54  |  Palestinian Brit 28/12/08
      97.   Truth 10:55  |  Rab Burns 28/12/08
      98.   Mazal Tov 10:55  |  NEVER AGAIN! 28/12/08
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      100.   Eli - not all Mosques 10:59  |  Palestinian Brit 28/12/08
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      103.   Imagine 11:00  |  lily 28/12/08
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      106.   Phillipe - and who put the Palestinains in this position 11:03  |  Palestinian Brit 28/12/08
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      110.   Samy totally wrong 11:05  |  Peter Williams 28/12/08
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      112.   Oleg - you wish! 11:07  |  Palestinian Brit 28/12/08
      113.   #24 and others 11:08  |  Michael 28/12/08
      114.   The morning after..... 11:10  |  Palestinian Brit 28/12/08
      115.   we don`t need Bruce "Diehard" Willis type 11:11  |  Capt Ahab 28/12/08
      116.   Palestinian brutalises his own children 11:11  |  Peter Williams 28/12/08
      117.   How do we have a 2 state solution 11:12  |  we cant relate 28/12/08
      118.   atak 11:13  |  jan 28/12/08
      119.   The crime,the punishment,the sad justice & the lesson. 11:13  |  Akram Zekaria 28/12/08
      120.   maureen from Bathurst 11:14  |  Jane 28/12/08
      121.   Czech Republic - speak for yourself, not your country 11:15  |  Palestinian Brit 28/12/08
      122.   Clickfool, both are real. Disguise posts under false false! 11:15  |  Israeli citizen 28/12/08
      123.   Reality check for Theodor # 89 11:16  |  Clickfool 28/12/08
      124.   #92 eirch the idf is making sure its not the other way round 11:16  |  victor hardman 28/12/08
      125.   Dino, all posts 11:16  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 28/12/08
      126.   gaza 11:17  |  gaza 28/12/08
      127.   For SDHD # 75 11:18  |  Clickfool 28/12/08
      128.   For Esther on the Morning After # 90 11:22  |  Clickfool 28/12/08
      129.   Smoking is bad for your health 11:22  |  FAL 28/12/08
      130.   Palestinian Brit - and who put Israel in this position? 11:24  |  SDHD 28/12/08
      131.   Clickfool rationalizes hating Jews 11:27  |  SDHD 28/12/08
      132.   To those who voted for hate they are having their rewards. 11:27  |  Akram Zekaria 28/12/08
      133.   Watch the Jew-haters crawl out from under their rocks 11:31  |  SDHD 28/12/08
      134.   Clickfool sees it all as a game against Jews 11:31  |  x-ray 28/12/08
      135.   The foolishness of clickfool 11:32  |  SDHD 28/12/08
      136.   Oh the fun that`s coming for these lucky IDF men 11:33  |  Clickfool 28/12/08
      137.   answer to islamlover #116 11:33  |  aaa 28/12/08
      138.   "Palestinian from Nablus" 11:34  |  Michael 28/12/08
      139.   Click, both you and your fakes .... 11:35  |  Esther 28/12/08
      140.   SCUM 11:38  |  United 28/12/08
      141.   Palbrit tells the truth for once - a revelation 11:38  |  Margie in Tel Aviv 28/12/08
      142.   "Israeli Aircraft Bombed A Mosque" 11:39  |  Hani Fahs 28/12/08
      143.   Clickfool #128 11:42  |  S 28/12/08
      144.   Clickfool salivates over a ground incursion 11:42  |  SDHD 28/12/08
      145.   Silvienne #11... do you really believe that the.... 11:43  |  Esther 28/12/08
      146.   Clickfool on pal response 11:44  |  The Judge 28/12/08
      147.   @99 Swiss Dino 11:45  |  Ralph 28/12/08
      148.   #138 11:46  |  suffering 28/12/08
      149.   #137, aaa from beautiful Prague 11:51  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 28/12/08
      150.   Peter Williams 11:52  |  suffering 28/12/08
      151.   IDF tanks and ground troops deply along Gaza border 11:53  |  Marlene 28/12/08
      152.   Clickfool and Nablus Pal 11:54  |  x-ray 28/12/08
      153.   #136, cowardly, hatfilled fool, all excited 12:03  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 28/12/08
      154.   Clickfool # 24. 12:05  |  David Nigel Braham 28/12/08
      155.   boris the clucking fool is now chewing his carpet 12:15  |  v.hardman 28/12/08
      156.   Enjoy The Last of Your Rockets Hamas 12:18  |  Baruch Gold 28/12/08
      157.   #126gaza a Hizb from Lebnon 12:19  |  Eva 28/12/08
      158.   The cease-fire was just a masquerade... 12:20  |  Ben Alofs 28/12/08
      159.   IAF=Division Condor (Guernica) 12:21  |  Diego 28/12/08
      160.   palestinian 12:21  |  sh 28/12/08
      161.   For David Nigel Braham # 140 12:26  |  Clickfool 28/12/08
      162.   For SDHD # 133 12:29  |  Clickfool 28/12/08
      163.   Clickfool #128 12:35  |  S 28/12/08
      164.   Speechless 12:42  |  Dominik 28/12/08
      165.   paper tiger 12:45  |  Mike 28/12/08
      166.   To Clickfool 12:47  |  Oleg 28/12/08
      167.   To Clickfool 12:48  |  Oleg 28/12/08
      168.   # 125 Cipora, I don`t know what statements you were reading.... 12:49  |  Swiss (Dino) 28/12/08
      169.   2000 years of humiliation 12:50  |  jayem 28/12/08
      170.   To palestinian brii and clickdick 12:52  |  oleg 28/12/08
      171.   US is responsible 12:54  |  CM 28/12/08
      172.   What we see i Gaza -or dont see ! 12:56  |  Bo - Denmark 28/12/08
      173.   # 139 Ralphie, don`t worry, I don`t buy into Arab or Socialist... 12:58  |  Swiss (Dino) 28/12/08
      174.   Rasta #14 you moron,hamas has already killed shalit 13:00  |  terrornator 28/12/08
      175.   Most Gazans are ofof Egytian origin or descended from. 13:03  |  Jo 28/12/08
      176.   silvienne #15 the eu and the un should have called for a truce 13:07  |  terrornator 28/12/08
      177.   Don`t get too excited 13:10  |  Paul 28/12/08
      178.   They started it! Why did we wait so long to retaliate? 13:12  |  Lea Amar 28/12/08
      179.   To: Jayem in Belgium 13:13  |  Angel 28/12/08
      180.   silvienne #17 thats what happens when you keep on punching 13:13  |  terrornator 28/12/08
      181.   silveienne #11 oh please not that,not the third intifada 13:16  |  terrornator 28/12/08
      182.   To: CM in LA 13:17  |  Angel 28/12/08
      183.   MURDERERS! 13:17  |  JH 28/12/08
      184.   it is a real war crime launched against Palestinians 13:19  |  Justice 28/12/08
      185.   #158 dr ben and the treatment of a disease 13:22  |  victor hardman 28/12/08
      186.   Now Hamas, and Hizb-Iran aka `Hizballah` is next 13:23  |  Stuart 28/12/08
      187.   clickfool #24 "israeli aircraft bombed a mosque",,,so what 13:23  |  terrornator 28/12/08
      188.   Bomb moore instead of sending in the army 13:23  |  Bo - Denmark 28/12/08
      189.   We will finally win we are very sure about this 13:27  |  Adel 28/12/08
      190.   send them to the hague 13:27  |  a jew 28/12/08
      191.   to mike # 2 13:31  |  Mira 28/12/08
      192.   Lebanon Scenario once again will never work Barak 13:34  |  Justice 28/12/08
      193.   Palestinian Brit 13:37  |  sharon 28/12/08
      194.   Adel 13:41  |  sharon 28/12/08
      195.   to # 18 Jueda 13:46  |  Mira 28/12/08
      196.   #179 Angel of death 13:47  |  jayem 28/12/08
      197.   palestinian brit #58 i hope you never talk peace again in your 13:48  |  terrornator 28/12/08
      198.   palestinian brit #58 i hope you never talk peace again in your 13:48  |  terrornator 28/12/08
      199.   Ground troops folly 13:49  |  sharon 28/12/08
      200.   Not enough 13:52  |  Eli 28/12/08
      201.   Mr Average Israeli 13:52  |  J 28/12/08
      202.   palestinian brit #61 thats big talk coming all the way from 13:54  |  terrornator 28/12/08
      203.   to #186 13:57  |  Mira 28/12/08
      204.   To oLEG 13:57  |  redwan 28/12/08
      205.   For Terrornator # 187 14:00  |  Clickfool 28/12/08
      206.   suffering 14:01  |  Peter Williams 28/12/08
      207.   To Mira #191 14:01  |  J 28/12/08
      208.   clear cut Re:zwygart Re palestinian # 78 no,dumbass,what zwygart 14:03  |  terrornator 28/12/08
      209.   WRONG, mira 191 and a jew 190 14:03  |  observer 28/12/08
      210.   SDHD #75 14:04  |  Mira 28/12/08
      211.   We stand behind you, IDF soldiers, in defending the homeland and 14:09  |  Jehudah Ben-Israel 28/12/08
      212.   Bomb the funerals! 14:12  |  Zionist 28/12/08
      213.   These pictures 14:14  |  Tom 28/12/08
      214.   Purge Judeo-Arab Abrahamic Lands of Persians 14:16  |  Jeff 28/12/08
      215.   Palestinians 14:16  |  Daniela 28/12/08
      216.   For SDHD on Jenin # 144 14:19  |  Clickfool 28/12/08
      217.   "Peter Williams" 14:22  |  suffering 28/12/08
      218.   Palestinians 14:22  |  Daniela 28/12/08
      219.   clickfool #205 oh,really that was a fake,sounded like the true, 14:24  |  terrornator 28/12/08
      220.   For "hatfilled" Cipora # 153 14:26  |  Clickfool 28/12/08
      221.   #190 A Jew 14:26  |  Poco Loco 28/12/08
      222.   # 63 PalBrit 14:26  |  17 28/12/08
      223.   A rancid Zionist speaks # 212 14:28  |  Clickfool 28/12/08
      224.   Thats not going to be enough 14:28  |  Chris Linthwaite 28/12/08
      225.   justice #184 so you admit what israel is doing is in retaliation 14:33  |  terrornator 28/12/08
      226.   Just in case yu were wondering 14:35  |  Yonatan 28/12/08
      227.   Chris Linthwaite- I was thinking of Madoff.... 15:18  |  Palestinian Brit 28/12/08
      228.   Clickfool re Rancid 15:19  |  sharon 28/12/08
      229.   No 211 - deadly attacks? 15:20  |  Palestinian Brit 28/12/08
      230.   UK Guardian compares Gaza butchery to Sabra & Shatila 15:21  |  Clickfool 28/12/08
      231.   Finish them off! 15:21  |  Jake 28/12/08
      232.   suffering 15:21  |  Peter Williams 28/12/08
      233.   #223 Clickfool 15:24  |  Chris Linthwaite 28/12/08
      234.   #223 Clickfool 15:24  |  Chris Linthwaite 28/12/08
      235.   Mobililze 15:25  |  Michael 28/12/08
      236.   israeli army 15:26  |  ali 28/12/08
      237.   these reservists will kill but also be killed 15:27  |  mehmet 28/12/08
      238.   #24 The "Fool" Lives Up To His Name 15:28  |  Bill Foonman 28/12/08
      239.   Cipora Julianna Kohn ( 60 ) 15:29  |  HM 28/12/08
      240.   to Justice 15:29  |  sharon 28/12/08
      241.   Who are the thugs? 15:30  |  Mike 28/12/08
      242.   Shalom From London 15:31  |  MrRad 28/12/08
      243.   #42 Children Taught To Hate 15:31  |  Bill Foonman 28/12/08
      244.   WHERE YOU WHRE WHEN 16:33  |  Commonsense 28/12/08
      245.   G-d Give Strength to the Mothers of the Soldiers to be Killed 16:41  |  nate 28/12/08
      246.   bombing 19:28  |  e 28/12/08
      247.   #11 Silvienne....yes, just look and realize 22:25  |  Lynn 28/12/08
      248.   Re# 11 Sure Silvienne ... 22:27  |  Ines 28/12/08
      249.   Re# 184 ...Qassam rockets... 22:31  |  Ines 28/12/08
      250.   Stand fast Israel! 22:35  |  Rober 28/12/08
      251.   a sign of 3 years of negligence 23:19  |  zionist forever 28/12/08
      252.   Anything other than surgical targeting is a no-win 01:23  |  Mark Leaman 29/12/08
      253.   Tibet Would Be Happy to Have Such an "Occupation" 01:29  |  Jo 29/12/08
      254.   IDF has no chance against Hamas 01:41  |  noor 29/12/08
      255.   HAMAS was warned then warned again.They chose to end Tahdiyeh 04:03  |  PETER SM 29/12/08
      256.   Noor 04:12  |  Motale 29/12/08
      257.   THE LOST MEMORY 04:39  |  Avi 29/12/08
      258.   Tit for Tat 04:44  |  Tupac 29/12/08
      259.   Long Overdue 06:39  |  Ron 29/12/08
      260.   Avi 07:52  |  T.Sivaraman 29/12/08
      261.   SDHD, whats new pals have always taught hatred 08:00  |  jj 29/12/08
      262.   world better off without hamas, not without israel 08:03  |  jj 29/12/08
      263.   WOw , what a shocker, all the blame on israel and not an ounce of 08:05  |  jj 29/12/08
      264.   # 35 that`s ALL it is for israel cipora; just a "game" 08:19  |  eric 29/12/08
      265.   AND ADOLF HITLER SMILED 08:22  |  JOHN 29/12/08
      266.   Finally Justice is Being Served 08:23  |  Baruch Gold 29/12/08
      267.   Adel the Bahranian, who is "we" 08:35  |  Palestinian Prince 29/12/08
      268.   IDF has no chance against Hamas, from Noor 09:01  |  Philippa 29/12/08
      269.   Eric`s "game" 09:03  |  SDHD 29/12/08
      270.   A solution for John in Paris 09:04  |  SDHD 29/12/08
      271.   Peter SM , Israel has been warned for 40 yrs 09:14  |  Dutch 29/12/08
      272.   For Baruch Gold # 266 09:52  |  Clickfool 29/12/08
      273.   #264, Eric, stop repeating Palestinian propaganda 10:08  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 29/12/08
      274.   Cipora`s poor memory # 273 11:00  |  Clickfool 29/12/08
      275.   #274, fool, my memory is excellent 11:59  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 29/12/08
      276.   coward attack 14:13  |  paulo2005 29/12/08
      277.   #66 to palestine. my. love will you really? 20:26  |  Ross 29/12/08
      278.   #156, Good response................. 23:08  |  Gary 29/12/08
      279.   #254 (SIXTH TRY)noor..read this and think carefully 03:21  |  Mayim 30/12/08
      280.   x-ray answer: israel did BOMB the Gaza Hospital 19:31  |  missy 17/01/09
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