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Israel's strike on Gaza had been expected for days, but it was still a surprise when it finally came. Taking advantage of good weather, which is forecast to last at least three days, Israeli planes bombed some 40 Palestinian police stations, posts and other targets early Saturday morning, killing more than 150 people, including a number of senior Hamas military leaders. The first strikes came in a coordinated three-minute blitz...
Israeli officials say the strikes were necessary to force an end to the rocket attacks from Gaza, which has been ruled by the radical Islamist group Hamas since it split from the Palestinian Authority, run by President Mahmoud Abbas out of the West Bank. Palestinian militants in Gaza have long launched Qassam and other rockets at Israeli towns across the border, and in the past six weeks the number of attacks has increased dramatically. After the attack, Israeli officials said the number of Palestinian rocket attacks could now spike to 200 a day. Hamas announced that it had sent...
...Israel is prepared to ratchet up the pressure still further in the hopes that it will force a workable cease-fire. Saturday's attack was authorized two days in advance, and though no Israeli ground troops have crossed into Gaza thus far, that remains an option, according to Israeli officials. Dozens of Israeli air force planes remain in the skies above Gaza. "If they retaliate, they will feel it stronger, and the number [of casualties] on the Gaza side will rise," a senior Israeli military source told TIME...
...pictures of life under Hamas in Gaza...
...promise from Hamas to halt the rocket fire, he summoned Olmert and Barak for an urgent meeting at his palace in Amman on Tuesday night, where he relayed the news of Hamas' willingness to curb the rocket fire. He also warned the two Israelis that an assault on Gaza would destroy any chance of an Arab peace initiative and would jeopardize Israel's ties with its moderate Arab neighbors, Jordan and Egypt...