Finally. After Hamas attacks that left four Israeli citizens dead and a rocket attack from Gaza yesterday that hit inside of Israel, the Israelis have lit up the tunneling areas in Gaza with air strikes and 2 Palestinian tunnelers have been killed. At this moment, it appears that the Israelis are not finished with the retribution.
From the story at AFP:
The body of a second Palestinian killed in Israeli air strikes on southern Gaza was recovered on Sunday, according to Palestinian medics and witnesses.The two Palestinians were killed and another three were wounded in the strikes carried out Saturday after a rocket attack from Gaza in the first exchange of fire since the relaunch of Middle East peace talks last week.
Two raids targeted smuggling tunnels along the border with Egypt, causing a tunnel to collapse on the two men, and a third struck a former base used by the militant Hamas movement, which has ruled Gaza since June 2007.
An Israeli military spokesman confirmed the three raids, saying that one was aimed at "a tunnel dug in the direction of Israeli territory" for attacks across the border.
The air strikes came after the firing of a makeshift rocket from Gaza into Israel by Palestinian militants on Saturday, which caused no casualties or damage, according to the Israeli military.
Hamas is pretty transparent in all of this - they want to derail the peace talks so I say, fine. Let's see the Israelis pound the shit out of Gaza yet another time for Hamas' actions - let's see the Palestinian people pay the price once more for propping up islamic terrorists as their government.
Hamas, you want it? I hope you get it. In spades.
'Second body recovered' from Israeli strikes on Gaza
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories — The body of a second Palestinian killed in Israeli air strikes on southern Gaza was recovered on Sunday, according to Palestinian medics and witnesses.
The two Palestinians were killed and another three were wounded in the strikes carried out Saturday after a rocket attack from Gaza in the first exchange of fire since the relaunch of Middle East peace talks last week.
Two raids targeted smuggling tunnels along the border with Egypt, causing a tunnel to collapse on the two men, and a third struck a former base used by the militant Hamas movement, which has ruled Gaza since June 2007.
An Israeli military spokesman confirmed the three raids, saying that one was aimed at "a tunnel dug in the direction of Israeli territory" for attacks across the border.
The air strikes came after the firing of a makeshift rocket from Gaza into Israel by Palestinian militants on Saturday, which caused no casualties or damage, according to the Israeli military.
On Thursday, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu relaunched direct peace talks in Washington following a 20-month hiatus.
Hamas has threatened to keep up its attacks on Israel after carrying out two shooting assaults against Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank that killed four people ahead of the talks.
It did not claim the rocket attack, however, and has taken steps to halt such attacks by other militant factions since the end of a devastating Israeli offensive in the territory in December 2008 and January 2009.
Hamas and Abbas's secular Fatah movement have been fiercely divided since the Gaza takeover and the Islamist movement -- which is sworn to Israel's destruction -- has vehemently opposed the renewal of peace negotiations.
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