[Al Ahram] Israeli warplanes pounded Gazoo Wednesday, killing at least 30 people in a major new confrontation with Paleostinians, as Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, flexed its firepower and sent thousands running for shelters across the country.As the corpse count from Israel's two-day Operation Protective Edge reached 57, Paleostinian president the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
accused Israel of committing "genocide" in Gazoo.
But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared bent on ploughing ahead, warning of even tougher action against Hamas.
There have been no Israeli deaths so far, but Hamas began flaunting its firepower overnight. It launched waves of long-range rockets across central Israel that triggered sirens in cities as far away as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
The alarms even sounded in the northern port city of Haifa, as unconfirmed reports spoke of a rocket hitting near Caesarea and another even further north.
Tanks massed on the Gazoo border, AFP correspondents reported, as Netanyahu came under mounting pressure from hardliners within his governing coalition to send ground forces into the territory from which it pulled all troops and settlers in 2005.