Israeli aircraft damages building in Gaza City airstrike

You really should keep current. Arabs continually fire rockets into Israel. Intentionally direct them at civilian areas. Instead of aircraft, they also use humans as bomb delivery devices, blowing themselves up in public places, busses, market, night clubs and anyplace else they can get into with their parcels of death...While your on the topic of planes, Arabs did attack with aircrat in 1973, Yom Kippur War.. Come out of your ivory tower and get in touch with reality... As an additional point of information, it was Arab planes that attacked Israel in May 1948.... Each side uses what it has.

Much hate in your responses. I wonder how Israel would feel if the Pals had jets that took out it's buildings because they CAN! Stop changing subjects and blaming other countries for past performances. You're trying to shift blame.

...where were you planning to go, Gaza or the West Bank, and how exactly was this human shield idea or programme supposed to work? Do you still intend to do it?

We don't care what Lakshmi thinks, nor what you think... You don't have the guts to back up your words... Yes, end the occupation NOW!!...Get out of Autralia and return the land to the Aboriginies. Set the example, depart NOW...Ye Gads, what a hypocrite!!

A training run, pure and simple. Nobody hurt, Hamas put on notice. More Kassams, more bomb drops, next time it won't be an empty building.

I thought you were going there to help end the occupation... They're waiting for you to fulfill your human shield promise...There you are, telling others what to do, when you, yourself don't have the guts to go help.

Silly girl. If Israel had plans for Gaza, many more than one building would have been destroyed. Still awaiting your departure date for your self-assigned task as Human Shield.

has absolutely 0 to do with Israeli/American "crooks". The Palestinians voted in an election where 2 members of Fatah ran against one member of Hamas so Hamas candidates won as the vote was split. (Seemingly, we have come to approve of the more moderate terrorists of Fatah.) Hamas does not respect the right of Israel to exist so why should Israel or any other country respect Hamas' right to exist? That is not Israeli propaganda. This happens to be enshrined in Hamas' Charter. Its available on the internet. If you read it and digested it, you would become a fervent Zionist and a respectable individual.

This may surprise you, but 4.3 billion disagree.

Once the traitors are gone the spies will still remain

Delusional, paranoid, aggressive,lack of empathy, enjoyment of others suffering. Sound familiar? Well, that's exactly a Palestinian's portrait. I'll NEVER forget that you Pals chose to punish the israeli civilians for the failure of the 2000 negociations with crimes against humanity (you were about 80 percent to approve suicide-bombings, even against civilians). I'll NEVER forget that 60 years after Israel's birth, you still consider the Zionists as imperialists -I'm not talking here about the settlers in the occupied territories-. I'll NEVER forget that you still don't want to share the land, asking for a right of return IN ISRAEL ! If you don't change those positions, YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO COMPLAIN !

because the majority of world opinion is on his side. End the occupation, now!

Israel has plans of it's own for Gaza!

gaza,west bank,east jerusalem must go back to their rightful owner[the jews].the palestinians should go back to their homeland "Edom."[modern jordan]the hashemites[jordanians must go back to mecca].

Hey Dutch The Germans democratically elected a group that believed in genocide. Read the Hamas Charter. Too bad you European jerks did nothing until AMERICA AND RUSSIA saved your sorry collective asses! Some brave Dutch people helped in that effort. My guess is that if you were there you would have supported the other"democratic" side!

Murray, The real crooks are the officials in the Israeli government and their partners in crime in the US and the spineleaders in the EU who rejected the Palestinian democratic will of the Palestinian people and undermined their representative and economy and divide the factions with their dirty tricks campaign and by their failure to accept the Palestinian unity government. Now they talk about the moderates. Can't you just see this BS? Now we have the Bush & Tony Show going on and still you don't seem to get it. It's so awful to see smart people like yourself parrot Israeli propaganda. You ought to be questioni- ng or suspecting the governments motives and turn simple logic around. Why don't you take off your blinders and get full perspective for a change and stop parroting Israeli BS. Dutch

Delusional to think 1 mil accuracy laser guided hits necessary. Reality. When the descent of your economy, and that of your sponsor making a big sucking sound, best in most cases to let nature take its course, with a little help from Tomy as needed!

Been reading 'old books' huh?

How would we know it was your true message without your fav. word?

or at least until they stop firing rockets. enough is enough. hunting season is in session!

clickfool wrote: "In time Israel will be eyeless in Gaza." Clickfool is already clueless in Sussex. Dream on. Israel does very well in their anti-terror activities. Harry

Attacks should be consistent, every day, at least three or four times a day. This would bring some sense in Gaza and Hamas. Terrorists understand no other language. ATTACK Them untul they are exhausted and have no more terrorists to hand over to death!

You'd complain if it were Israel building a new building for them. Whatever Israel does is wrong in your eyes. Who cares what you think?

An amusing headline given the story. Let me get this correct, the IAF "targets and damages" a building, and it turns out the target was an unfinished apartment. This reminds me of Nam where misses on bridges were credited with "cratering the approaches." "It was not immediately clear why the building was targeted." - Haaretz I agree it is unusual to whack an unfinished apartment. Might I entertain two possibilities? 1. the bomb missed. 2. the intelligence was bad. "Witnesses said a local Islamic Jihad commander, possibly the target of the attack, narrowly escaped death or injury. He was spotted driving by, and when an Israeli aircraft flew overhead he jumped out of the vehicle." - Haaretz Sounds like the real target was paying attention.

A month ago the Palestinians showed how their democracy works. Hamas took over Gaza by arms and Fatah is doing pretty much the same in the West Bank. What a crock!

"By then the drones will be so advanced that the traitors will be unnecessary" How will a drone know when a man Israel wants to whack is coming out of a particular building, Murray? It takes snitches to tip the Israelis off.

Nothing to be clear about,just more of IDF brutality! THAT'S RIGHT! RIGHT BACK TO YOU!!..Lakshmi

Much like the US, Israel will only attack those who do not have the means to defend themselves. I wonder the outcome if the Palestinians had jets and tanks.

When the "traitors" are all gone in Gaza there will be nobody left there with much intelligence. By then the drones will be so advanced that the traitors will be unnecessary

"Witnesses said a local Islamic Jihad commander, possibly the target of the attack, narrowly escaped death or injury. He was spotted driving by, and when an Israeli aircraft flew overhead he jumped out of the vehicle." The only possible reason an IAF aircraft just happened to be overhead was that Israel had received a tip-off from one of its snitches, stoolies and spies. I trust Hamas is busy, steadily rounding up these traitors and punishing them appropriately. In time Israel will be eyeless in Gaza.

More undermining of Palestinian democracy by Israel. Israel will never have the high moral ground in this dispute and thus its own moral ground is reaching a new moral low everyday . First ,by its rejecting the democratic will of the Palestinian; then by waging a cruel and unjust embargo against them; arresting their officials and making their government funct- ion next to impossible; , and dividing their groups and incit- ing a near civil war, now it is back to destroying their civil society. How shameful. Dutch

that way their kneecaps pop out .. do you know how silly and brainwashed your post sounds after what Hamas did to fellow Palestinians a month ago? the world saw monsters at work and it can't be hidden - monsters - and the whole world saw them without their masks !

Even the IDF can miss on a shot sometimes. The good part this is payback for the Quassam going thru the roof of a home. Lakshmi if your posting here then you must also realize Hamas were firing Quassams and it landed in a childs bedroom. Why didnt you write about Hamas brutality. If your going to post then be realistic or don't post

Delusional, paranoid, aggressive,lack of empathy, enjoyment of others suffering. Sound familiar? If I was an israelis who saw the things that my fellow brother wrote on talkbalk it would be an eye opener of who is the real sick lunatic in the region!! Ur racist thoughts will never penetrate Palestinian soil!

Nice to know that when terrorists in Gaza hear a jet they jump out of their cars in a panic.

Building didn't feel a thing. It was unoccupied. You can help clean it up with all the extra water you've gotten.

Just fly planes over Gaza and wait for the terrorists to jump out of their cars. Then go back and destroy the cars. Eventually the terrorists will be forced to travel by foot.

How disgraceful using air strikes to blow the top off a building and to targeted kill the opposition. This not how a civilized society solves its human problems let alone a democratic one. Make no mistake about it this is state terrorism against Hamas and the Palestinian people by Israel. How dare the tyrants and shipyard guards in Israel call Hamas terrorists when they are the real international terrorists with their atrocious undermining of Palestinian democracy and in- ternational law. As Jimmy Carter said what Israel is doing is criminal and damn the spineless leaders in the EU who are going along with this. It's just disgraceful. Dutch

While I admit, that the so called rockets, missiles etc fired by Islamic Jihad and Al-Aqsa are as stupid as those who fire it, and that these rockets are nothing more than an ego trip, a high, a fix for those who fire it, and it shows the irresponsible behavior of the political and military leaderships, I am convinced that Israel is now coordinating its activities and is intensifying its activities at the promot support and enticement from Ramallah as a punishment for the people of Gaza. I would not be surprised if a joint operation center is set up to destroy all of the infastructure in Gaza. The guys in Ramallah will go far to make sure Gaza is totally destroyed. So they can raise more money to rebuild it and steal it again.

No 2 - nice to read an article with a sense of humour.

So whats new.

Haniyeh would be living underground if the IDF really meant bussines

Narhool, Shayk Ismail's spokesbee announced today that the most cost-efficient use of Gazan airspace was to allow the IAF Rookie Pilots freedom to practice rocket attacks on abandoned buildings. Narhool added that the leveling of such structures would greatly add to the expected boom in Gazan real estate prices. According to public record and abiding by the newly enacted Hamas sunshine laws, Shayk Ismail is the single largest shareholder in the development project known as Shayk Yassin Towers. ###