Israel warplanes bomb Gaza after rocket attacks

[Mrs. Sharon B. Hodge]

Israel warplanes bomb Gaza after rocket attacks


GAZA (Reuters) – Israel said it launched air strikes on two Hamas outposts in the Gaza Strip on Monday in retaliation for rocket attacks on the Jewish state.

The air strikes were mounted on the eve of an Israeli election in which security is a major issue.

Palestinians said at least one Israeli missile hit a building used by Hamas police. There were no reports of any casualties.

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A fragile ceasefire has been in place since Israel ended a 22-day military offensive in Gaza on January 18 that was designed to punish the Islamist Hamas group for cross-border rocket and mortar bomb attacks.

Egypt is trying to secure a lasting ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Diplomats said the Egyptian proposal includes a prisoner exchange and the initial opening of at least two of the enclave's border crossings.

With his opinion poll lead narrowing ahead of Tuesday's parliamentary election, right-winger Benjamin Netanyahu has stressed Israelis' fears of Arab attacks and said government plans to trade land for peace were doomed to failure.

His main opponent, the centrist Kadima party leader Tzipi Livni, said she would continue the U.S.-sponsored peace process with the Palestinians that she pursued as foreign minister -- an outcome favored by the new Obama administration in Washington.


(Writing by Dan Williams and Nidal al-Mughrabi, Editing by Ralph Gowling)

[Rivkah Cohen]

Thank you so much for sharing this useful information, Sharon,
The ceasefire and all previous ones have always been so frail and fragile. Appeasement never really wins anythng but so the delusion of compromise goes.
Rivkah