Dvir Emanueloff

Shira Tuchman

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Unfortunately,  22-year-old First Sergeant Dvir Emanueloffז"ל was killed on Sunday morning. He was the first casualty since Israeli troops entered Gaza nine days ago. Dvir was fatally wounded when a mortar shell landed near his unit near the northern Gaza town of Jebaliya and was the first of the soliders in Gaza to have fallen in Operation Cast Lead. He was buried on Mt. Hertzl on Sunday night.

Although he was a resident of Givat Ze'ev in northwest of Jerusalem, Dvir felt very strongly about going to fight and

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Operation Cast Lead: Israel Is Fighting Back

Tamar Annenberg

 

January 2009 UPDATE ISSUE תשס״ט Issue 4

 

 

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killing more than one hundred and forty terrorists. For five more days, the IAF pounded Gaza, while 6,700 reservists, soldiers who have already served in the army, were called in for a ground invasion.

            On the third day, Israel struck the Hamas premier’s home, obliterating a security compound. By the sixth day, Israeli strikes demolished more than ninety percent of Hamas's security-related structures in Gaza, and assassinated a top Hamas leader, Sheikh Nizar Rayyan, by directly bombing his apartment building.

Hamas has continued barraging Israel with deadly Katyushas and long-range Grad-type rockets, reaching Ashkelon, Ashdod, Yavneh, and even all the way to an elementary school and a kindergarten in Beer Sheva, forty-eight kilometers from Gaza. Hamas is using hospitals as command posts, and mosques as terrorist bases, making it extremely difficult for Israel to avoid civilian casualties.

   Wednesday, January 7, 2009 marks the thirteenth day of Israeli-Gaza crossfire. A sixth month long truce between Israel and Hamas reached its end on December 19. During those six months, in addition to barraging Israeli towns with rockets daily, Hamas had been producing and perfecting rockets, ready to launch them the moment the truce expired. In two days, Hamas fired over one hundred rockets and mortar shells across the Gaza-Israeli border. On December 25, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sent a last warning to Gaza to halt the rocket fire, saying that he would not hesitate to use force and launch an offensive retaliation. The next day, in a mission entitled Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) sent almost thirty missiles into targeted Hamas headquarters,

            Israel has opened the Gaza border for nearly two hundred trucks of humanitarian aid, along with new trucks and ambulances, and for the critically wounded to be taken to Israeli hospitals. Egypt, opposed to Hamas controlling the Gaza area, has refused to let Gaza Palestinians through the Egypt-Gaza border, an act which is inciting strong Palestinian, Hamas, and general Arab criticism.

            As of now, the Palestinian medical sources claim that their death toll is in the six hundreds, mostly armed terrorists, but including some civilians; the Israeli death toll is four civilians and six soldiers.

was proud to help his brothers in the south. His death was not in vain; he fought for the peace of Israel, our homeland.

             As the war progressed, unfortunately other soldiers have fallen. They are:

Maj. Dagan Vertman, 31, of Maaleh Michmas; Capt. Yehonatan Netanel, 26, of Kedumim; St.-Sgt. Nitai Stern, 21, of Jerusalem; and Corp. Yusuf Muadi, 19, a Druze soldier from Haifa.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This short two page issue was put out due to the serious situation going on in Israel right now. The importance of being informed and staying up to date is crucial at this time.

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