BREAKING: Israeli ground forces storm Gaza
RAW STORY
Published: Saturday January 3, 2009
Update: Hamas responds
Hamas vowed on Saturday to turn the Gaza Strip into a “cemetery” for the Israeli army, which launched a ground offensive in the enclave following a week of air and naval bombardment.
“‘We will defeat the army just like they were defeated before,’ Abu Thaer, spokesman for the military wing of Fatah — the al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades — told the television network Al Jazeera.
“‘We will rub their noses in the sand. To the Arabs of 1948, today it is the time to act, to carry martyrdom operations in the heart of Israel. In case they will get in really on the ground, they will be taught a lesson that they will never forget. The Israeli army is the loser from ground operations in Gaza.
“‘They claim that the Palestinian resistance was hit, but we say that the resistance will not be defeated, and we will not receive them with roses. We will receive them with bombs and that will not stop, God willing,’ Thaer said.”
Update: ‘We have many, many targets’
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Israeli Troops Move Into Gaza
Military Says Objective Is to ‘Destroy the Terrorist Infrastructure of Hamas’
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, January 3, 2009; 4:55 PM
JERUSALEM, Jan. 3 — Israeli ground forces rolled into the Gaza Strip on Saturday night, as the military announced the beginning of the second stage of a massive, eight-day offensive that has already cost more than 430 Palestinian lives.
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