Friday, January 09, 2009

Self-study: Summary for BBC Today, 7h13, 6th Jan, 2009

Dr. Musa told the reporter that on 5th Jan, 2009, Tony Blair headed a convoy to Gaza strip, increasing the diplomatic activities and international efforts here, but the whole challenges have remained and the fighting continues. The Hamas militia and Israel forces exchanged fire and try to catch each other in Gaza. Hamas Islamic fighters were said to use anti-tank weapons, motars to fire with machine guns and they said they would force Israel to pay a heavy price. The casualies are difficult to count, depending on which side's declaration. Hamas said to kill 10 Israel soldiers over night, but Israel dismissed and in contrary, Israel stated to kill more than 130 Hamas fighters over 2 days and captured 100 others, in fact, many civilians wounded to be taken to the hospital.

As a witness saying, the fighting is more serious with many explosions, bombing, especially at night, he heard people call for help. Nothan, representative chief of Gierusalem Bureau assessed that Israel troops tried to reach Hamas military positions and infrastructure, they are now in dangerous situation. They are difficult to know exact targets because they confused Hamas fighters with citizens. Gaza can be discribed as a combination of Iraq and Afghanistan./.

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