What do you think Israel should do?

[mike435]

g-d forbid bite your tounge

if g-d forbif a war with iran happens ah man ah man it will be a very sad day lots of pain worst part i think is that i will be the one hurting from both sides

by the way i am not in the IDF
also say israel does attack irans nuclear facilitys than you belive that israels punishment should be to go on fire
you dont belive civillian and millitary

but out of couriasoty you allways emphisied that jews and the zionist govermenr are diffrent why are they now the same

[donsaeid]

i ment israelis! and extremists will attack jews sorrily!

and iran will send all their shahab rockets down to israel!

so yeah they will put israel on fire! and they have thousends of them! so at least 500 will hit every single israeli city!

US will attack iran to help israel and there we go a middle east on fire!

that is just a possible scenario!

[mike435]

iran has that many missles with that much range

[donsaeid]

yes! they have had Shahab 3 in essmbly line for over 3 years now!

[donsaeid]

Israel pounded Hamas targets with air strikes Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding dozens.

It had stepped into intense fighting between the Islamic militants and the rival Fatah movement of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

The Israeli attacks followed Hamas rocket barrages on southern Israel.

The strikes made it harder for Hamas gunmen to move around, and prompted accusations — on Hamas web sites, radio and TV — that Abbas-linked forces were in cahoots with Israel.

Hamas contemptuously called Fatah fighters the “Army of Lahad,” a reference to a Lebanese general allied with Israel in the past.

Israel unleashed the air campaign — a hit on a Hamas command centre, on a trailer housing bodyguards and two vehicles — after Gaza militants fired more than 50 rockets on the Israeli border town of Sderot in three days.

Defend our citizens

“Today in Israel, we have had enough. Israel will take every defensive measure to stop these rocket attacks. We will defend our citizens against the rockets, against the weapons, against the Iranian-backed Hamas who are attacking Israel,” said Israeli government spokeswoman Miri Eisen.

The air strikes came on the fifth day of internal violence that appeared to be crushing the Hamas-Fatah unity government, formed just two months ago, along with any hope of renewed peacemaking with Israel.

In all, 46 Palestinians have been killed in the in-fighting since Sunday, in the worst round in more than a year.

Still, street clashes were ebbing after intense fighting Wednesday, when terrified Gaza residents were trapped in their homes. Gazans took advantage of the respite Thursday to stock up on bread, bottled water, diapers and other basics.

In the midst of the lull, Israel dropped a bomb on a two-storey building of Hamas’ militia, the so-called Executive Unit, killing a Hamas militant, wounding 45 people, including civilians, and destroying the structure and several next to it.

Digging through rubble

A large crowd dug through the rubble and pulled out the wounded.

Later, Israeli missiles struck the trailer housing bodyguards of a Hamas official and a car carrying two senior Hamas militants, killing two people.

Another Israeli hit on a pickup truck near the southern town of Rafah killed three people, a father and his two teen sons.

The Israeli military said it targeted a rocket squad, but Palestinians said that was apparently a case of mistaken identity after Hamas fired rockets from the area.

Israel’s air strikes further complicated the chaotic situation in Gaza, making the embattled Abbas even more vulnerable to Hamas accusations that he is in Israel’s pocket.

Amid concerns for his safety, Abbas cancelled a trip to Gaza, where he was to have bolstered a new truce deal in talks with Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas on Thursday.

Military response

Up to now, Israel has remained on the sidelines during internal Palestinian fighting. However, Israeli security officials said the military had to respond to the rocket attacks on Sderot.

Israel broadened the range of targets Thursday to include second-tier Hamas commanders, in addition to those making or firing rockets.

In recent months, Israeli officials have expressed alarm over Hamas moves to smuggle weapons into the Gaza Strip — and may have been looking for an opportunity to act strongly against the militant group.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is under intense pressure to act because of the scenes of terrified Sderot residents huddled in bomb shelters, or being evacuated by the bus-load.

The Israeli leader is fighting for his own political survival in the face of plummeting popularity and harsh criticism of his handling of last summer’s Lebanon war. Still, Olmert may well seek to avoid a major ground offensive in Gaza, fearful of another fiasco after that war.

Hamas claimed responsibility for firing 35 rockets and 12 mortar shells toward Israel on Thursday alone. The Islamic militants largely observed a truce with Israel along the Gaza-Israel border for about five months, but resumed rocket attacks earlier this month.