 Israeli forces killed four Palestinian militants and a police officer and kept up missile strikes against militant targets in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, residents and medical officials said. Israel's latest air strike killed a militant from Hamas, which leads the Palestinian government, near the northern Gaza town of Jabalya, Palestinian hospital officials said. The Israeli army had no immediate comment. Witnesses and security sources had said earlier another Hamas militant died in the attack, but doctors said the man was wounded and remained in critical condition.
| Oooh. Gut shot and in terminal agony. I like it. |
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel's assault on rocket-launching squads and gunmen would not be open-ended but declined to say when it would finish. He appeared to acknowledge the rocket threat could not be wiped out by the operation.
| Like me olde Pap used to say, "Maybe I can't make you, but I can make you wish you had!" |
Several homemade missiles fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza hit southern Israel. No one was hurt. Israeli forces have killed at least 48 people, more than half of them gunmen, in the five-day operation in northern Gaza, Palestinian medical officials have said.
| The other half were puppies, kittens, fluffy bunnies, and baby ducks, that sort of infant livestock. |
"We have no intention of conquering Gaza," Olmert said at the start of a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem.
"We have declared that we will never accept the ongoing (rocket) fire and that we would take any steps needed to considerably reduce the fire and prevent terror activity."
| That will eventually involve bouncing rubble. |
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