Dec 28 - Israel pounded Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip from the air on Sunday for a second day and prepared for a possible invasion after killing nearly 300 Palestinians.
Israel said the campaign that began on Saturday was a response to almost daily rocket and mortar fire that intensified after Hamas, the Islamist group in charge of the enclave that Israel quit in 2005, ended a six-month ceasefire a week ago.
Despite the assault, militants fired 80 rockets into Israel, causing no casualties.
Helen Long reports.
The sun sets behind an Israeli tank near Kibbutz Mefalsim, just outside the northern Gaza Strip December 28, 2008. Israel destroyed Hamas's main Gaza security complex in an air strike on ...
