[Marxism] Gaza updates from the other side of the barricades

[Shawn Redden <wsredden@xxxxxxxxx>]

al-Manar, Hizbullah's site, lead's with the 
headline "Hamas Kills 9 Israeli Troops, Captures 
2 in Gaza Op" and begins:

After a week of the launch of "Operation Cast 
Lead" against Gaza, Israeli occupation army 
started on Saturday evening a ground military 
offensive into the coastal strip in order to 
"destroy the Hamas infrastructure and rocket 
launch pads in the area of operations".
 
And as it has vowed, the Palestinian resistance 
was waiting for the occupation soldiers to foil 
their aggression, killing nine of them and 
wounding dozens others, according to Ezz-eddine 
Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas's military wing. Hamas 
resistance fighters also said they have destroyed 
an Israeli Merkava with a B-29bomb.
 
Hamas announced it had captured two Israeli 
soldiers, an event which, for Israel, would 
highlight the political risk domestically of 
sending its troops into Gaza. A spokesman for 
Hamas' armed wing said Israeli troops faced 
certain death or capture. "The Zionist enemy must 
know his battle in Gaza is a lost one for them," 
spokesman Abu Ubaida said.

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http://www.almanar.com.lb/NewsSite/NewsDetails.aspx?id=69127&language=en

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Also, the Palestinian Info Centre reports in an 
article headlined, "Al-Qassam: Our fighters 
inflicted heavy casualties in the ranks of IOF 
troops."

GAZA, (PIC)-- Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing 
of Hamas, said that its fighters inflicted heavy 
casualties on the invading IOF troops in the east 
and north of the Gaza Strip, affirming that it 
managed to kill more than five Israeli soldiers 
and wound about 30 others.

According to reports published by the Israeli 
media, which are subject to military censorship 
on the publication of any information about the 
number of soldiers killed or wounded, the Israeli 
soldiers who were injured were from the infantry, 
artillery, armored brigades and the engineering 
corps.

In a communiqué received by the PIC, the Qassam 
Brigades stated that its fighters detonated 
anti-personnel explosive devices in an 
Israeli special force near the Beit Hanoun 
crossing and an Israeli tank.

The communiqué added that the Qassam fighters 
also managed to detonate other explosive devices 
in different special units in Al-Zeitoun suburb, 
east of Gaza city, and in the Atatra area, 
northwest of Beit Lahiya.

According to the communiqué, the Qassam fighters 
were able to penetrate the radio waves of the IOF 
troops and heard Israeli soldiers as they were 
screaming in pain and talking about the death of 
five soldiers in their ranks.

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http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/en/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2bcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2bi1s7Zf7fEf%2fYUM6ItLTFfJKmrZYr%2bObTkQx2XZjNVwTo47XdhjUImSOmu7TsLx6INd4UMdpEIrY78OuICiH8yHWBoqZ24c%2bCcv5wBecaHdEah4I%3d

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