Two soldiers killed as Israel defends itself

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By Stan Goodenough
March 02, 2008

After years of enduring daily rocket attacks that killed and injured its civilians, restricting its responses and repeatedly warning Gaza's Arabs to stop the terrorism, Israel Saturday increased its effort at self-defense, hammering Hamas hard.

Two Israeli soldiers were killed and seven were wounded as IDF forces moved into northern Gaza and clashed with Hamas and other terrorists operating from there.

The Gaza Strip, abandoned by Israel 18 months ago and given to the "Palestinians" for a state "start-up," was instead successfully turned into a base for training and dispatching terrorists to kill Jews.

February saw a massive increase in the rocket attacks from Gaza that resulted in the maiming of Israeli children and the killing of father of four. As many as fifty rockets were fired daily on Thursday and Friday last week.

After the IDF moved in on Saturday, Arabs fired salvo after salvo of rockets towards the Negev towns of Sderot and Ashkelon, wounding six more civilians and destroying at least one home.

By Sunday morning, at least 70 Palestinians had been killed in the action, among them reportedly civilians, from among whom the terrorists frequently fire Kassam and - more recently Katyusha - rockets.

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