Israel tanks in Gaza City, UN makes impotent call for ceasefire

CNN:

Israeli tanks rolled into Gaza City early Tuesday from two directions despite U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calling on both sides in the conflict to "just stop."

The rumble of artillery fire and airstrikes continued throughout the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory as Israeli troops and armor pushed into Gaza City from the northwest and northeast, approaching the headquarters of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service.

The Israeli military reported clashes between its troops and Hamas fighters and said at least 30 Palestinian combatants were killed or wounded.

Meanwhile, Israeli warplanes and helicopter gunships struck 60 targets overnight, the Israel Defense Forces said.

"We are tightening the encirclement of the city," Brig. Eyal Eisenberg, commander of the Israeli offensive, told reporters brought in to Gaza to observe the deployment. Video Watch the latest report from Gaza »

Israel launched its military operation in Gaza on December 27 to halt rocket attacks on southern Israel. At least 14 rockets were fired into Israel on Monday, causing no injuries, an Israeli ambulance services spokesman said.

For a sixth day, Israel halted the bombardment temporarily to allow civilians access to needed supplies. The IDF said it expected 100 trucks loaded with aid to be transferred to the territory through the Kerem Shalom border crossing.

Both Israel and Hamas, the Islamic militant group that has ruled Gaza since mid-2007, have ignored last week's U.N. Security Council resolution that called for a cease-fire. In an adamant message Monday directed at both sides, Ban demanded that they comply with the cease-fire call.

"My message is simple, direct and to the point -- the fighting must stop," the secretary-general told reporters in New York. "To both sides, I say, just stop now. Too many people have died.

"There has been too much civilian suffering. Too many people, Israelis and Palestinians -- live in daily fear of their lives, and in Gaza the very foundation of society is being destroyed." Video Watch comments by Ban »

Ban is scheduled to hold a series of meetings in the region starting Wednesday with nearly all the players in the conflict except Hamas. The group has been branded a terrorist organization by Israel, the United States and European Union.

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The group has also been brandied as a death cult by PrairiePundit and others. Ban is making a mistake by highlighting his and the UN impotence on the cease fire issue. Hamas has always been able to get a cease fire, by stopping its attacks on Israel. Even if Israel stopped its attacks on Hams, the death cult would continue to fire the rockets that caused the war to begin with. Why is that so hard to comprehend?

The tanks driving into Gaza could mean we may see a climax soon. What Israel needs to do is capture the Hamas leadership hold up in an Israeli built hospital. Capturing them and trying them for war crimes would be a start. While the world may be willing to forgive Hamas's war crimes the Israelis should not. The Palestinians should also applaud the downfall of Hamas.

It is the only way they will ever live in peace.

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