Israel Strikes Demolish Hamas Compounds, Kill 192

...Defiant Hamas leaders threatened revenge, including suicide attacks. Hamas "will continue the resistance until the last drop of blood," vowed spokesman Fawzi Barhoum.

Israel told its civilians near Gaza to take cover as militants began retaliating with rockets, and in the West Bank, moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for restraint. Egypt summoned the Israeli ambassador to express condemnation and opened its border with Gaza to allow ambulances to drive out some of the wounded.

Israeli leaders approved military action against Gaza earlier in the week.

Past limited ground incursions and air strikes have not halted rocket barrages from Gaza. But with 200 mortars and rockets raining down on Israel since the truce expired a week ago, and 3,000 since the beginning of the year, according to the military's count, pressure had been mounting in Israel for the military to crush the gunmen...

abc report

One would have to read all the way over to half way through the second page of the report to get this little tid-bit of information, that the Gaza nuts have rained down over 3,000 rockets on Israel during this year...all the while Israel patiently waited for them to get some sense...Gaza didn't...so Israel decides to knock some sense into them.

Of course Israel is presented as the aggressor.