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Israel retaliates

Israeli forces advanced on two Gaza towns this past Wednesday in responce to Palestinian rocket fire earlier this week. One Israeli man died from injuries, and a school was hit in southern Israel, though no one was hurt. In the violence on Wednesday, a Hamas' policeman was killed by Israeli tank fire. Hospital officials also divulged that three Palestinian girls were injured outside of a school by Israeli firing. Since March a Hamas-led government has been in control of Gaza. Israel has officially boycotted the Hamas government because of its refusal to renounce violence and recognize Israel as a state.

This article fits quite well with the previous chapter that we have been studying in class. Reading an article like this really brings things into perspective. Seeing it in some book just makes the conflict in Israel seem so distant or in the past, but when reading an article that was written just this week, the violence seems so much more real, so much more tangible. Israeli official David Baker said "No government would tolerate such attacks, and neither will Israel" and I can completely understand this. Israel has every right to retaliate to the Palestinian attacks.

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posted by Anonymous @ 11/23/2006 08:28:00 PM