Israel moves forward and sends more troops to Gaza (AP)

December 31st, 2008 by admin

Israel moves forward and sends more troops to Gaza
(AP)

Palestinians walk on the street next to a destroyed building used by the security forces of Hamas that were destroyed in an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City, Wednesday, Dec. 31, 2008. Israel rejected mounting international pressure to suspend its devastating air offensive against Palestinian militants whose rocket barrages are striking ominously close to the Israeli heartland, sending warplanes Wednesday to demolish smuggling tunnels that are the lifeline of Gaza's Islamic Hamas rulers.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)AP – Israel sent more troops to the Gaza border Wednesday, rapidly moving forward with preparations for a possible ground offensive as the next stage of its military assault on the coastal territory’s Hamas rulers. Israel rebuffed calls by world leaders for a truce, and Hamas also was cold to a cease-fire.

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