Israel Threatens to Strike Gaza After Attack on Soldiers...

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'JERUSALEM, June 25 — Israel threatened strong military action today after Palestinian militants, including those belonging to the ruling faction Hamas, emerged from a long tunnel dug 300 yards into Israel, killed two soldiers, wounded three and kidnapped a fourth wounded soldier at an Israeli outpost near the Egyptian border.

Two of the eight Palestinians were killed; the rest escaped back into Gaza with the Israeli soldier, Cpl. Gilad Shalit, 19, who is believed to have been wounded and whom they may want to try to exchange for jailed militants. He was the first Israeli soldier kidnapped in more than a decade.

Israeli tanks moved a short distance into Gaza, the first tank incursion since Israel pulled its settlers and soldiers from the territory last summer. Israeli officials talked of serious retaliation for the raid, which was weeks in the planning and for which the ruling Hamas faction took partial responsibility, along with other militant groups like the Popular Resistance Committees and a newly formed group called the Army of Islam.

The Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said at a cabinet meeting that Israel holds the Palestinian Authority, its Hamas government and its president, Mahmoud Abbas, known as Abu Mazen, "responsible for this event — with all this implies."'

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/world/middleeast/26mideastcnd.html?ex=1308888000&en=5ee32aab8869a3cb&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Hamas just doesn't get it, now is not the time to make the world a more shitty place, it is time to start making it better or the entirety or the world will be plunged into greater darkness yet again...imo