Israel Plans Attack on Gaza

June 17th, 2007

Via: Times Online:

ISRAEL’s new defence minister Ehud Barak is planning an attack on Gaza within weeks to crush the Hamas militants who have seized power there.

According to senior Israeli military sources, the plan calls for 20,000 troops to destroy much of Hamas’s military capability in days.

The raid would be triggered by Hamas rocket attacks against Israel or a resumption of suicide bombings.

Barak, who is expected to become defence minister tomorrow, has already demanded detailed plans to deploy two armoured divisions and an infantry division, accompanied by assault drones and F-16 jets, against Hamas.

The Israeli forces would expect to be confronted by about 12,000 Hamas fighters with arms confiscated from the Fatah faction that they defeated in last week’s three-day civil war in Gaza.

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2 Responses to “Israel Plans Attack on Gaza”

  1. Dan says:
    June 17, 2007 at 7:58 pm

    Looks like it has started.
    http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL1760465320070617

  2. tsoldrin says:
    June 18, 2007 at 2:42 pm

    Looks like this is going to be ‘The Summer of War’.

    on a side note… looks like Hamas uncovered a cache of CIA files from Fatah… http://www.nysun.com/article/56609

    I wonder if they’ll be able to diseminate any of that material before they get carpet bombed.

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