News update from Gaza; 100 killed, 300 injured

Those numbers are choking and alarming.

So muslim fanatics have short-range rockets pointed at Israel?  These guys never ever learn?  Do you think Israel will not provide a little dessert for them?  Maybe now is the occasion to show them the Light of the Son?

Please keep us updated.  Thank you for this.

I am sorry to learn that you are in the middle of an unfortunate situation. Thanks for this story.

Ezra Klein is getting a lot of attention online for his comments. Here is an excerpt:

This is State Sponsored terrorism at its worst.

The government of Israel doesn't care what the world thinks:

Detaining the United Nations

Dec 24 2008

Richard Falk was detained at the airport and denied entry to Israel on December 13, when he arrived in Tel Aviv. The American professor of international law was traveling to the West Bank and Gaza, to fulfill his mandate as the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories to investigate the human rights conditions affecting the civilian population. His most urgent task includes monitoring the rising humanitarian crisis facing the 1.5 million Palestinians, of whom half are children, living in the besieged Gaza Strip.

The decision to keep Falk out fits a pattern of Israeli efforts to hide the human consequences of the siege of Gaza and of the escalating settlement expansion in the West Bank. Denying entry to the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights is part of the same occupation playbook as keeping Palestinian human rights defenders such as Raji Sourani, director of the Palestine Center for Human Rights, locked up in Gaza and denied the right to leave to speak to the outside world. It's at one with the Israeli policy of blocking international journalists who might report on the spiraling humanitarian crisis (especially in Gaza). The same goal is evident in the beating and effort to intimidate the few Palestinian journalists who do manage the rare opportunity to get out and tell the world, such as Mohamed Omer, the young Gazan winner of the prestigious Martha Gellhorn Prize in Britain.

Falk's detention and exclusion echo earlier Israeli moves to deny access to other UN human rights monitors. Most notably, perhaps, Archbishop Desmond Tutu was denied entry when he was appointed by the United Nations to conduct a special investigation of the 2006 attack on Beit Hanoun in Gaza in which the Israeli Defense Forces killed 18 people in a single house. (Tutu was only able to carry out the investigation, 18 months after the attack, when Egypt was pressured to open its crossing at Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.).....

http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/20043

I am so sad and so sick about these attacks. The Palestinians need immediate protection and help and the Israelies need to immediately cease all aggression on the territory, including the months-long siege in which food and fuel have been cut off to this city of 1.5 million people.

Just something else to update the headline: I am hearing 300 killed, 1000 injured.

The US is a puppet of Israel - why?????

war is never ever going to be a solution for watever reasons. if we need to bomb anything it is only the foolish psyche that is ruining our peace.

Collective punishment is always abhorrent and the co-ordinated support from various Israeli spokespersons around the world for these attacks are depressing. Keep up the reports Sameh Habib and I hope you and your family remain safe. It's difficult to see how Israel believes it will benefit from these bombings yet various commentators point to soon to be held elections as a reason for the attacks. So politics over-rides human rights yet again. One has to search far and wide to discover that a huge section of the Israeli population do not support the attacks on Palestine and there are large demonstrations in Israel. A nation that feels it is necessary to censor it's people has already lost the fight.

I do not condone what Israel is doing.

I believe the USA should have put forth sanctions a long time ago on Israel for how they have treated the Palestinians.

But, doesn't Hamas realize that if they send exploding devices, Israeli militia is bound to strike back?

Can someone explain this to me?