I just want to start out by staying that I really look forward to this class and to betting to know all of you as we progress through this coming semester. Now with the preliminaries out of the way, it's down to serious business.
The article I read this week is about the intense unrelenting fighting between the Gaza Strip and Israel. Israeli forces penetrated the deepest on Sunday into a residential area. Their infantry is fighting urban warfare in streets and buildings with Hamas militant members who are continuing to launch rockets into the southern part of Israel.
A spokeswoman for the Israeli army said that the neighborhoods in Gaza are a mine field and incredibly tricky for the soldiers to fight in. There are homemade bombs and booby traps, along with mannequins that are set up in apartment doors that simulate Gaza soldiers and are set to go off when soldiers approach them.
Israeli navy gunboats on Monday shot over 25 shells into Gaza City, causing multiple fires and violently shaking office buildings and the local bureau of The Associated Press. Before the sun rose on Monday, at least one militant was killed by the airstrike on Gaza. The medical officials in Gaza hospitals say at the very least 870 Palestinians, approximately half of them civilian, have been killed in the raging conflict that started December 27th with Israeli airstrikes on Hamas buildings. Only 13 Israelis, 10 soldiers, have died.
Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, said that the objective Israel set for itself has made decent progress but has not hit the finish line yet. Israel's objective is to end years of devastating rocket attacks by Hamas on it's southern region. This is an intricate plan that might possibly require Egyptian or even international aid to shut down the weapon smuggling routes between Egypt and Gaza. They have been bombing known tunnels that run under the border of the two countries.
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