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...Hamas exacted a toll to avenge the deaths of what Israel claims were Iranian-trained senior instructors. The Islamist militia opened up its arsenal, hauling out medium-range Grad rockets which struck the port city of Ashkelon, while dozens of short-ranged Qassams peppered Sderot and other towns near Gaza on Wednesday, killing an Israeli student...
...Tuesday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met with his security cabinet to figure out the terrible equation of how hard Israel should strike back against Gaza when one of these homemade rockets brings death to Sderot. The collateral damage could include President George W. Bush's proposed Middle East peace summit in November, since a major Israeli strike against Gaza would inevitably prompt a stay-away by the moderate Arab states on whose support Washington is counting - Egypt, Jordan and possibly Saudi Arabia...
...Back to School day, seven rockets fired from the nearby Palestinian enclave of Gaza landed in Sderot, narrowly missing toddlers entering a kindergarten. The Palestinian militants routinely fire rockets from Gaza, but this time those responsible claimed to be retaliating for Israel killing three Palestinian children, who had been gathering fruit and playing hide and seek, the previous week. (The Israeli army had apologized for the three deaths...
...second scenario: Israel invades a broad swath of northern Gaza as far as the teeming Jabaliya refugee camp, pushing the rocketeers back out of range of Sderot and other Israeli communities. In this plan, Israel would also turn a corridor along the Philadelphi Road, between Gaza and Egypt, into a no-man's land to stop smugglers from bringing more weapons into Gaza through an underground maze of tunnels. Israel would also cut off Gaza's electricity, gas and water, in what deputy premier Haim Ramon described as "a price tag" that Israel should stick on every rocket fired...
...kindergarten rocket in Sderot narrowly missed causing a major battle between Israel and Gaza's Palestinians. It could be days, or even weeks before one rocket finds its mark. And when that happens, all bets for progress on Middle East peace this fall...