Israel hits Gaza rocket commander

CNN:

On the eighth day of a military campaign Israel says is aimed at ending Hamas rocket attacks, Israeli missiles killed the commander of Gaza City's rocket-launching squads, an Israel Defense Forces spokesman said.

Hamas commander Azkariah al-Jamal died when his car was attacked early Saturday, Palestinian sources and the IDF said.

Another airstrike killed two Hamas militants in Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza, Palestinian officials said Saturday.

Rockets launched from Gaza into Israel Saturday morning set a house on fire in Ashkelon, damaged a kibbutz dining hall and slightly wounded two people in an eight-story building in Ashdod, according to Israeli ambulance services. Video Watch the conflict unfold on both sides »

Israeli police and military officials said four people, three of them civilians, have died in Hamas rocket attacks in the past week. Fifty-nine others have been wounded.

Palestinian medical sources said Saturday that at least 435 people have been killed and 2,285 wounded in Gaza since the raids began last Saturday.

Israeli tanks and troops have massed on the Gaza border, and an IDF spokeswoman said ground forces are prepared to enter Gaza when they receive orders to do so.

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The funny thing about the troops massed on the Gaza border with their tanks is they are probably the least likely people within range of Gaza's rockets to be hit with one. So far I have seen no report of rocket fire against Israeli combatants. All the Gaza rockets have been aimed at noncombatants.

Obviously the commander of the rocket attacks from Gaza is a combatant and his killing by Israel is well within the rules of war. But the Arab and Muslim world still seems to characterize all Hamas casualties as a massacre of civilians. The is a perverse form of logical inversion that demonstrate the religious and ethnic bigotry in those quarters. there is no other logical explanation for the kind of drivel pouring out of the usually sane Arab News these days.

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