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Israel was fine with the 1967 borders until Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and miscellaneous other forces lined up to "wipe Israel from the face of the world."
(Reuters) - Israeli forces hit the Gaza Strip from land, sea and air on Saturday, stepping up their offensive against Hamas in the Palestinian enclave as tanks and troops waited on the border for a possible ground offensive.
Here is a timeline of events since Hamas ended a truce earlier in December:
December 14 - Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal says the group will not renew a six-month-old truce with Israel.
December 18 - Hamas declares the end of the Egyptian-brokered ceasefire, which expires the next day with a surge of cross-border fighting.
December 24 - Gaza Palestinian militants ratchet up rocket fire toward Israel.
December 27 - Israel launches massive air strikes on Gaza in response to the intensified rocket and mortar fire killing at least 229 Palestinians.
December 28 - Hamas says an Israeli air strike destroys a laboratory building at the Islamic University, a significant cultural symbol of Hamas.
-- Israeli aircraft bomb some 40 smuggling tunnels in the Gaza Strip that provide a lifeline to the outside world.
December 29 - Israel steps up its air strikes and bombs the Hamas-run Interior Ministry, the first air strike targeting a government building in the offensive.
-- Israel declares areas around the Gaza Strip a "closed military zone."
-- Palestinian militants fire rockets deeper into southern Israel.
December 30 - Israeli warplanes press on for the fourth day with attacks on Hamas targets.
-- Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum urges Palestinian groups to respond using "all available means" against Israel.
-- Israel says its attacks herald "long weeks of military action."
December 31 - Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh tells Palestinians that "victory is near."
-- Emergency session of U.N. Security Council to consider resolution drafted by Arab countries calling for immediate ceasefire adjourns without a vote.
January 1 - Israel kills Nizar Rayyan, a hardline Hamas leader, in an air attack on his Gaza Strip home.
-- Palestinian casualties since December 27 are 412 dead and about 1,850 wounded. A U.N. agency says about a quarter of the dead are civilians.
-- Three Israeli civilians and a soldier have been killed by Palestinian rockets since the air strikes began.
January 2 - No sign of a ceasefire on the seventh day of the conflict, with at least 429 Palestinians killed and 2,000 wounded, but a Palestinian official says that Egypt had begun exploratory talks with Hamas to halt the bloodshed.
January 3 - An air strike on a mosque kills 11 Palestinian civilians and wounds dozens, as Israeli tanks and troops wait on the border for a possible ground offensive. Palestinian death toll rises to at least 446.
Originally posted by flymetothemoon
Originally posted by TMan312
reply to post by flymetothemoon
hah i've actually been to the dead sea before. When i went to Jordan. It is a really nice place. I had a cut on my leg so it burnt like hell when i went in the water but other than that it was great.
Oh, you were there.lol. Then you know what a "Tequila Acid" taste like ? if not. I tell you, that you did not miss anything
Originally posted by DantesLost
reply to post by dooper
Really?
It only goes back to December.
What about Israel killing 6 members of Hamas in November?
Originally posted by real_one
I am surprised that on a site like ATS we would have so many fox news/cnn brainwashed people who have uneducated and unthoughtful comments. It is a know fact that Israel refused to renew the cease-fire and that they also broke the cease fire. It disgusts me to see the mainstream media support and sugar-coat the war crimes going on in Gaza. I imagine that any reader here would react the same and create a Hamas like group after 60 years of oppression and mistreatment.
Originally posted by real_one
reply to post by flymetothemoon
Here is that source you were asking for flymetothemoon.
www.guardian.co.uk...
sorry for not posting it.
I assumed you may have read the whole tread as the link i just posted is on page 4 of the thread.