Israel continued to target Hamas leaders on Friday.
Palestinian mourners carry the bodies of Hamas leader Nizar Rayan and the members of his family that were killed in an Israeli air strike during a funeral procession in Jabalia on the way to the Beit Lahia cemetery in the northern Gaza Strip on January 2, 2009. Israeli warplanes pounded militant targets including a mosque in Gaza today as angry protests unfurled on Hamass ”day of wrath” against the blistering assault that has killed more than 420 people including senior Hamas commander Rayan and several of his wives and children. (SKY News)
Israel continued to target terrorist leaders on Friday flattening the homes of 20 Hamas leaders in Gaza.
The AP reported:
In airstrike after airstrike early Friday, Israeli warplanes hit some 20 houses believed to belong to Hamas militants and members of other armed groups, Palestinians said.
They said the Israelis either warned nearby residents by phone or fired a warning missile to reduce civilian casualties. Israeli planes also dropped leaflets east of Gaza giving a confidential phone number and e-mail address for people to report locations of rocket squads. Residents stepped over the leaflets.
Israel used similar tactics during its 2006 war in Lebanon.
Most of the targeted homes Friday belonged to activist leaders and appeared to be empty at the time, but one man was killed in a strike that flattened a building in the Jebaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza.
More than 400 Gazans have been killed and some 1,700 have been wounded in the Israeli campaign, Gaza health officials said. The number of combatants and civilians killed is unclear, but Hamas has said around half of the dead are members of its security forces and the U.N. has said more than 60 are civilians, 34 of them children.
Also… Israel barred men younger than 50 from entering Jerusalem mosques for Friday prayers.
YNet News website was hacked today by an Islamic group based in Morocco. An image of naked pyramid being perpetrated at Abu Ghraid prison, the most violent atrocity in the history of mankind, was posted in its place:
They are now back up and running.
The Muqata and Israellycool have extensive roundups on the situation in Israel and Gaza.
Here is the video of the IAF hitting the Gaza Mosques/weapons depot today.
Notice the secondary explosions:
The IAF also struck the house of Hamas terror leader Muhammad Maatuk, which doubled as a weapons’ storage facility, weapon’s lab, and an underground tunnel– an all-purpose facility.
Previously:
Israeli Jets Pound Gaza– Over 170 Dead (Video)
Israeli Gaza Strikes Called ‘Holocaust’ By Hamas
Hamas Calls For 3rd Intifada & Suicide Missions Against Israel
IDF Airstrikes Continue– 110 Rockets Fired Into Israel
Israeli Ground Forces Position Outside Gaza
Iranian Prostesters Call for “Israel to Be Wiped Off the Face of the Earth”
Palestinian Girl Loses Family In Bombing… Blames Hamas! (Video)
Sick… Pro-Hamas Protesters Play the Nazi Card Against Jews
20,000 Iranian “Martyrs” Sign Up to Fight Israel
TERRORISTS HIT BEERSHEBA WITH ROCKETS!… 40 KM From Gaza
Israel Kills Hamas Leader Nizar Rayan & 2 of His 4 Wives (Video)
Ladies of Hamas Vow To Blow Themselves Up Among the “Apes and Pigs”
Breaking: Islamist Rockets Can Now Reach Israeli Nuke Facilities
Egyptian Foreign Minister Slams Hamas Again
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