Israeli troops advance into Gaza towns

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BEIT HANOUN, Gaza (AP) -- Israeli ground troops, tanks and armored vehicles advanced on two northern Gaza towns Wednesday in pursuit of Palestinian rocket squads, besieging a well-known Hamas lawmaker's house and engaging militants in ferocious gunbattles, Palestinian officials said.

They're "beseiging" an ordinary house, with tanks ? Your story doesn't add up. One tank would
roll over a house, not beseige it.

Militants, undeterred by Israel's military might, pressed ahead with their rocket attacks on southern Israel, at one point hitting a school just before pupils arrived.

Well...thanks for admitting you're shooting at civilians. So much for whining about how Israeli's occasinally hit your civilians by accident, you're targettig them on purpose.

Snipers were also staked out on the roof of a Hamas lawmaker who earlier this month helped to organize a women's demonstration that permitted dozens of Hamas militants to escape an Israeli siege on a Beit Hanoun mosque, Palestinian security officials said.


They locked lawmaker Jamila Shanti and her family inside the house in Jebaliya, and built a sand embankment around the house to protect soldiers from Hamas gunfire, Palestinian security officials said. Troops fired nine rocket-propelled grenades at Shanti's two-story house, which was hit earlier this month in another offensive on Jebaliya, they said.

make up your mind. Are they beseiging the place , or are they already inside being beseiged by the Hamas ? And what the heck are the Hamas doing attacking their own Law maker in the first place ? You guys can't even make up decent propaganda.



"We advise the occupation to spare itself the effort of invading Gaza, because this is not going to stop rockets" said Hamas military wing spokesman Abu Obeidah. "It's going to escalate rocket fire."

Losely translated : We hate you , we're going to keep on shooting. don't bother trying to stop us.

Late Tuesday, an Israeli man wounded by Palestinian rocket fire earlier in the day died of his injuries.

"No government would tolerate such attacks, and neither will Israel," said Israeli government official David Baker, after the second rocket fatality within a week.

Separately, a rocket fired from Gaza hit the entrance of a school in southern Israel shortly before pupils arrived Wednesday morning. No one was hurt.

Another rocket fell nearby and a third rocket hit a farm close to the Israel-Gaza border fence, damaging a chicken coop but causing no casualties, the army said.

I'm caught between your insane psychotic cruelty with these rockets and your amazingly poor aim. You coudln't even hit the chicken ?


Israel has been boycotting the Hamas-led government, which took power in March, because it has refused to recognize Israel and renounce violence.

Losely translated : They're still shooting at us !