IN – OUT RAIDS ONGOING!

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IDF IN–OUT RAIDS TO CONTINUE

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The first article, from the Jerusalem Post, which follows, details the recent brief Operation Hot Winter, in and out, raid in the Gaza Strip. It describes the Monday night and Tuesday morning activity.

The Ynet News and Haaretz Articles which follow indicate Israel met its objectives, one of which was to go in, hit their targets, then quickly pull out, which we indicated would be the case in previous Blogs. We also said this type of operation would be performed over and over again for the purpose of ending or limiting the number of launches and the longer range types.

The last article is Jerusalem Post Article 2, which describes the Tuesday afternoon and evening activity.

Begin Jerusalem Post Article 1

Palestinians: 3 gunmen shot dead by troops in central Gaza

JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST

March 4, 2008

Three gunmen were killed Tuesday in clashes with IDF troops in central Gaza, Palestinians reported.

Eyewitnesses said that Hamas operatives opened fire toward the soldiers who had entered the territory accompanied by armored vehicles.

The IDF said that soldiers were carrying out a routine counter-terror operation in Khan Yunis and that it was not a major incursion

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into the Strip.

On Tuesday morning, two Palestinian gunmen were killed in two separate air strikes as the IAF targeted Gaza rocket launching cells, Palestinian sources reported.

Four other operatives were wounded in the attacks, the sources said.

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s heavily damaged by a rocket. Fortunately, the two were out of the city at the time.

Despite claims by Palestinian sources that one member of the Kassam rocket squad killed in the air strikes was a Hamas member, the Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility for the attack.

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Five more Kassams fired from Gaza hit the western Negev Tuesday. One of the rockets struck the Ashkelon Beach region while the other hit an open area south of the city. The other rockets landed in open areas in the western Negev. No one was wounded and no damage was reported.

Days into the heavy Kassam rocket barrages that have pummeled the city since last Wednesday, the couple, Shlomo and Alice Gigi, both in their seventies, had on Sunday decided to take a vacation after refusing to do so for years.

“They said ‘how will it help us? In the end we’ll go back to our reality,” their son Motti told Army Radio. However, earlier this week the two were convinced to spend a few days at Motti’s home in Givataim.

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On Monday, the IDF withdrew most of its troops from the Gaza Strip, ending what Prime Minister Ehud Olmert termed “the first phase” of Operation Hot Winter, which was launched following a deadly Kassam rocket attack on Sderot last Wednesday.

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Begin Excerpt from YNet News Article

4 Achievements in Gaza

By Rom Ben-Yishai

March 3. 2008

The only chance to avoid a large-scale operation in the Strip in the near future is through a sequence of such raids – using one brigade, more or less, in conjunction with an aerial assault. And we should emphasize this: the aerial assault does not only support the ground forces – it is important in and of itself, in terms of striking targets that ground forces do not reach.

‘We couldn’t bear sense of humiliation’

So what did the combined ground and aerial operation that ended Monday morning achieve? First, it created a new erosion equation that would force Hamas to think twice before its next Qassam offensive. It was completely clear that this morning Hamas would fire several rockets at Ashkelon and the western Negev, just to show that the Israeli operation achieved nothing. Yet the operation’s true effect can only be measured over time, when the effect of “Warm Winter” along with other operations of this type would form a critical mass that

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would erode the power of Gaza gunmen.

Hamas lost about 70 men in three days, and that’s a lot – even for a group that sanctifies death. It would be improper to use the term “balance of terror” in this context, because none of the sides – either us or Hamas – feel any terror, but rather, a desire to lower the casualty toll.

The second achievement: The operation erodes Hamas’ status in the eyes of residents of the Strip. It doesn’t matter how often Hamas spokesmen repeat the mantra “the people is behind us,” phone conversations with Gaza residents create a wholly different impression.

The third achievement: The operation creates legitimacy among the international community to a situation of fighting in Gaza. This legitimacy is also created as a result of the fact that the media no longer view fighting in Gaza as “news,” and also because the ongoing attacks on Ashkelon make it clear that Israel did not pounce on the Palestinians for no reason. A testament to this legitimacy could be seen in the fact that no real pressure was exerted on Israel to end the operation on the part of official political elements,

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including in the Arab world.

The operation’s fourth achievement was nicely defined by Haim Kuznitz, when we drank our coffee after the second Qassam landed Monday morning. “We are willing to sustain the Qassams when it’s clear to us that the IDF is fighting those who fire them,” Haim said. “What I couldn’t bear was the sense of humiliation when we sustained but did nothing.”

However, the operation also had some drawbacks: Hamas is learning the IDF’s combat tactics, and the military leadership there also makes assessments and draws lessons, while improving its deployment accordingly.

Yet overall, the IDF proved that it knows how to fight.

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Givati troops who participated in the operation described clashes from a very short range, the deployment of Palestinian explosive devices, and much fire on the part of Hamas forces who prepared for the possibility of an IDF incursion. The fact that we ended the operation with two soldiers killed and several others lightly to moderately injured attests to high fighting capabilities and proper operational planning.

However, we must remember that Hamas is learning our moves, and what worked well during “Warm Winter” may not work as well in the next operation.

Begin Haaretz Article

Olmert: All military options for Gaza are on the table

By Shahar Ilan, Haaretz Correspondent

March 4, 2008

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared Monday that the operation in the Gaza Strip is not a singular event. “The operation is not a one-time event: neither in us going in, or us pulling out.”

Speaking before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday, Olmert said that “everything is on the table – ground operations, air [strikes] and special operations.”

He described the government’s goals in the operation that ended early Monday morning, and in others to come as “significantly decreasing the launch of indirect fire, and the weakening of Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip, in a way that will check its ability to control life in the Gaza Strip.”

Olmert also stressed that negotiations with the Palestinians will continue.

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He said that without negotiations, Israel would be condemned by the international community, even if it behaved in a restrained and balanced manner.

“That which enables us to manifest our basic right to self defense is the political horizon. There is no way to prevent the ‘Gazafication’ process and the rise of Hamas in the West Bank without offering a political horizon. Whoever cannot recognize this is simply lying to himself,” the Prime Minister said.

Olmert also argued that a military operation in the Strip had become necessary even without Ashkelon being targeted by Hamas.

“From the ethical point of view, shots fired against Netivot are no different from those fired on Ashkelon. The lives of those living in the communities bordering the Gaza Strip are just as important and precious as those of any Israeli.”

The Prime Minister said he rejects the “lectures on morals” coming from outside Israel.

Begin Jerusalem Post Article 2

Elite IDF unit kills Islamic Jihad commander in Gaza

JPost.com Staff and AP, THE JERUSALEM POST

March 4, 2008

Troops from the elite Egoz unit killed an Islamic Jihad commander in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday night. The army said that he was one of the terror group’s leaders in Gaza City, Israel Radio reported.

In addition, three Palestinian gunmen were killed in clashes with IDF troops in central Gaza, Palestinians reported.

Eyewitnesses said that about 25 armored vehicles entered Gaza through Kissufim Crossing. The soldiers arrested two Islamic Jihad terrorists and pulled out two hours after the incursion, they said.

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Defense officials said it was a “pinpoint” operation in Khan Yunis aimed at Gaza terrorists.

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The IDF confirmed that the operation was over.

The witnesses said that during the clashes, IDF tanks fired shells and attack helicopters fired missiles.

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