Sunday, May 3, 2009

A News Story That Didn't Make Prime Time?

Has anyone seen this news story in the Maintstream Media?

Israel kills two in air raids aimed at tunnels
Gaza City
May 3, 2009
Two Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air strikes on smuggling tunnels in the southern Gaza Strip.
Jihad Abu Jarad and Hamdan al-Astal, both in their 20s, were killed in Rafah on the border with Egypt, and three other people were wounded in the strikes which targeted five tunnels, Palestinian medical sources said.
The air raids were the second in as many days to target smuggling tunnels along Gaza's border with Egypt and came after Palestinian militants fired mortar rounds into Israel, an Israeli army spokesman said.
On Friday, aircraft attacked two smuggling tunnels along the Gaza-Egypt border, a day after Palestinian militants fired a rocket at Israel.
Militants in Hamas-ruled Gaza have fired about 200 rockets at Israel since the end of Israel's onslaught against the impoverished territory in December and January.
Palestinian sources say the Gaza war left more than 1400 Palestinian dead. Thirteen Israelis were killed during the conflict.
The latest confrontation came as Israeli media reported that a New York-born and Princeton-educated historian and commentator on Middle East affairs has been chosen as the country's next ambassador to the United States.
According to the online edition of the newspaper Haaretz, Michael Oren's selection by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman would be submitted to Sunday's cabinet meeting for approval.
Mr Oren is a senior fellow at the Shalem Centre, a conservative Jerusalem think tank. He is the author of several bestsellers, including Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East.
Born in 1955, Mr Oren immigrated to Israel in 1979 and served as a paratrooper in Lebanon. During the January offensive in the Gaza Strip, he volunteered as a military liaison officer, briefing reporters outside Gaza. He holds US and Israeli citizenship.
Mr Netanyahu's inner circle is engaged in a wide-ranging foreign policy review before his visit to the White House this month. His refusal so far to endorse the goal of an independent Palestinian state puts him at odds with US President Barack Obama.

200 mortars since the end of the conflict.

hmmm.

Wonder what that means?

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