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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (199874)	8/28/2006 3:04:13 PM
From: Noel de Leon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Do you remember a presidential candidate that said "Read my lips"? And then did the opposite. Prior to the election Hamas had kept a cease fire for over a year. And then on June 9th: "JERUSALEM (CNN) -- An Israeli navy gunboat fired shells onto a northern Gaza beach Friday, killing at least seven people and prompting the military wing of Hamas to call off a 16-month-old cease-fire with Israel. The Israel Defense Forces said it was firing on rocket-launching areas in Gaza after a militant attack earlier in the day. The target areas were believed to be uninhabited, a representative said. A spokesman for Hamas, Sami Abu Zuhri, said it was "impossible to remain silent" after viewing "terrifying pictures of the women and children" on the beach. "These demonstrations emphasize the necessity of the renewal of the struggle," he said. (Watch the aftermath on the beach -- :46) A mass demonstration erupted in Gaza City, and protesters Friday evening were demanding revenge for recent attacks that include the beach shelling and Thursday's killing of a Hamas official in an Israeli missile strike. Palestinians were picnicking when the Israeli shells slammed into the beach, Palestinian medical sources said. About 20 people were injured in the attack, Palestinian security sources said. An apology was initially issued to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz in which the IDF said it "regretted the strike on innocents," but Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, the IDF's chief of general staff, later said the military is investigating the possibility that it was not naval artillery that struck the beach. The IDF halted firing pending an investigation. Haaretz quoted Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas as condemning the killings as a "bloody massacre." Video footage from the beach showed ambulance workers carrying away injured people on stretchers and a young girl screaming for a parent. Hamas has stuck to the cease-fire it announced in February 2005, but other groups did not sign on and have continued attacks against Israel. Earlier this year, Hamas won the Palestinian elections." cnn.com