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January 4, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/world/middleeast/04mideast.html

Israel Begins Ground Attack in Gaza

[New York Times] Taghreed El-Khodary and Isabel Kershner - Israeli tanks and troops swept across the border into Gaza on Saturday night, opening a ground war against Hamas after a week of intense airstrikes. The Israeli military said in a statement that the objective of the ground campaign was "to destroy the terrorist infrastructure of Hamas, while taking control of some of the rocket launching sites" that Hamas uses to fire at southern Israel. "Hamas can stop it whenever it wants," by stopping its rocket fire, said Shlomo Dror, a Defense Ministry spokesman.

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