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A WAR, CALLED "SUMMER RAIN"

While the main German newspapers this morning(local time/CET) were headlining "HAMAS IS RECOGNIZING ISRAEL", IDF was already crossing the border to Gaza to launch the operation called "Summer Rain".

How not other to expect IDF last night moved into the territory of Gaza. Now, after they bombed last night three bridges(to split Gaza in two parts) and the power plant, about 5,000 Israeli troops, including hundreds of tanks are stying two KM inside the southern part of Gaza and waiting for further orders.

Palestinian fighters, there are ten thousands in arms, already yesterday were building roadbolcks(but it seems more like sandbox games..) and promised "bloody resistance", but until now no real resistance was happen..

Right now, only few minutes ago, CNN reported that IAF was attacking a Hamas training camp.

Ok, here the latest news by international and Israeli agencies/newspapers:

Israel enters Gaza

Conal Urquhart in Tel Aviv
Wednesday June 28, 2006
The Guardian


A Palestinian boy walks over a bridge destroyed by an Israeli missile in the Gaza Strip.

Photograph: Mohammed Salem/Reuters
 

As tension mounted in Gaza, the Israeli army introduced checkpoints in the West Bank, fearing an 18-year-old man had also been abducted there. The Israeli police said today they still had no proof that Eliyahu Asheri had been kidnapped despite not being seen since Sunday.

A spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees told al-Jazeera satellite TV that the group was holding Mr Asheri, who is from the West Bank settlement of Itamar. The spokesman, known as Abu Abir, said the man would be "butchered in front of TV cameras" if Israel did not stop its raid on the Gaza Strip.

Mr Asheri was last seen at a Jerusalem hitchhiking stop used by settlers heading into the West Bank. News agencies were told of the kidnapping by militants on Monday and his family called police about his disappearance yesterday.

The three bridges destroyed in the air strikes were the main links between north and south Gaza, crossing the Wadi Gaza, a valley filled with untreated sewage.

Israeli jets also broke the sound barrier over Gaza several times, causing sonic booms. An Israeli army spokeswoman said: "During the night, the Israeli airforce hit three bridges in central Gaza and a power station south of Gaza City. Israeli forces entered the south of Gaza near the village of Dahaniya and the airport and they remain there at the moment."

She said the operations were designed to stop the kidnappers moving the soldier. However, security sources told Israeli media that the attacks were also motivated by revenge. "To exact a price for the kidnapping incident and to restore deterrence," one official told the Israeli daily newspaper Yedioth Aronoth.

The army was positioned about a mile from Rafah, the southern Gaza town that has witnessed much fighting in recent years. Residents living close to the town's outskirts fled their homes as militants began laying explosive devices and making barriers in anticipation of a full invasion.

Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, said Israel's military action had only just begun. "We won't hesitate to carry out extreme action to bring Gilad back to his family," he said. "We do not intend to reoccupy Gaza. We do not intend to stay there. We have one objective, and that is to bring Gilad home."

Speaking at an awards ceremony at his residence in Jerusalem, Mr Olmert insisted Israel would not negotiate for the soldier's release.

Security officials are debating the next step. Options include kidnapping an important Palestinian leader or assassinating Hamas leaders.

Haim Ramon, the justice minister, said Israel would try to assassinate Khaled Mashaal, a Hamas leader based in Damascus, who Israel believes gave the order for the kidnapping. "He is definitely in our sights ... he is a target," Mr Ramon told Army Radio.

Mr Mashaal has always been an Israeli target. In 1997, Israeli agents injected poison in his ear in Amman but were caught by Jordanian police. Israel was forced to send a doctor with the antidote to Amman and free dozens of Palestinian prisoners including Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the Hamas leader later assassinated by Israel.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1807825,00.html

PHOTOS: Troops Move Into Palestinian Territories

Israel Launches Military Operation in Gaza Strip

(Washington Post)

Israeli troops move into Gaza
(IHT/NYT)

Israel launches Gaza offensive

(Al Jazeera)

Please check out also the Israeli media, such as

Haaretz

http://www.haaretz.com/

Jerusalem Post

http://www.jpost.com/

Yedioth Ahronoth

http://www.ynetnews.com/

..for the latest news on the battle field.

Meanwhile Arab activists opened a new front-line:

Major Israeli websites hacked

More than 750 Israeli websites hacked in recent hours. Among them: Soldier’s Treasury Bank, Rambam Hospital, and Globus Group ticket center. Hackers: You’re killing Palestinians, we’re killing servers 

Unprecedented number of Israeli websites hacked: Hundreds of websites were damaged by hackers in recent hours, following IDF activity in the Gaza Strip. The hackers are members of the Moroccan “Team Evil” group, responsible for most of the website damage in Israel in the past year. This is the largest, most concentrated attack on Israeli websites in recent years.

The IDF, ready to take "extreme actions"(E. Olmert)

BBC World:

Israel warns of 'extreme' action

Hamas official: We'll kidnap more soldiers

If Israelis do not negotiate a prisoner swap, Palestinians militants will conclude that they should capture more IDF soldiers or "kill soldiers even if they have the opportunity to capture them,"...

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/732368.html

IDF: Green light to enter northern Gaza

Forces stationed in Strip receive approval to continue operation; entry expected to be slower, more complex, mainly due to terror cells' resistance 

Green light to continue operation: The Israel Defense Forces received a green light to expand Operation Summer Rains in the Gaza Strip.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3268747,00.html

Finally, I think, the time of "funny games" is over.. definitely!!

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PS: The German newpaper Tageszeitung(a little similar with Hankyoreh) wrote in its today's edition "despite the threat of a invasion by the IDF a clear majority(of the Palestinians in Gaza) is in solidarity with the kidnappers of the Israeli soldier"..

http://www.taz.de/pt/2006/06/28/a0170.1/text

To be updated as soon as there are more news available..