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	Operation Days of Penitence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Operation Days of Penitence (In Hebrew, מבצע ימי תשובה) was the name used by Israel to describe an Israel Defense Forces operation in the northern Gaza Strip, conducted between September 30, 2004 and October 15, 2004.
		The operation, focused on the town of Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia and Jabalia refugee camp, which were used as launching sites of Qassam rockets on the Israeli town of Sderot and Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip, and in particular in response to the death of two children in Sderot.
		The stated goal of the operation, code-named "Days of Penitence" (ימי תשובה) by the Israeli Defence Force, was to prevent Palestinians from launching rockets and mortar shells into Israeli settlements in Gaza and the town of Sderot in Israel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Days_of_Penitence (3409 words)

	MIFTAH.ORG--The Political Aims Behind "Days of Penitence" Operation
		Yet, in practice, and during the past few days, Israeli prime minister twice refused to approve an army request to end the "Days of Penitence" operation, insisting that the offense should continue until the launching of Qassam rockets is ended.
		After 15 days of intensive assaults, army generals concluded that nothing more could be done to achieve "security" goals, admitting that the operation failed to end the firing of Qassam rockets.
		Operation "Days of Penitence" has no doubt alienated the internationally backed Egyptian efforts to bring about a coordinated disengagement that could serve as a step towards implementing the road map peace initiative.
	www.miftah.org /PrinterF.cfm?DocId=5270 (666 words)

	UNRWA Gaza Field Assessment of IOF Operation ‘Days of Penitence’ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Operation Days of Penitence was the largest IDF incursion into Gaza since the start of the Al-Aqsa intifada in September 2000.
		Whilst Operation Days of Penitence was ongoing in Northern Gaza, 482 persons were made homeless in Rafah, as the IDF continue to hack away at Palestinian areas along the Egyptian border.
		UNRWA primary health centres in Jabalia and Beit Hanoun operated on 24 hour shifts during the incursion and additional staff were called in to handle the emergency situation; ambulance drivers were on call throughout and transported 46 injured persons to neighbouring hospitals.
	www.palestine-pmc.com /details.asp?cat=3&id=454 (1684 words)

	Middle East Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Senior officers were reported to have told Sharon that Operation Days of Penitence, launched 13 days ago, had now met its main objective and managed to halt rocket attacks on southern Israel.
		A total of 111 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Days of Penitence, which is the army's deadliest offensive in the territory, began on September 28.
		Sharon himself was due to update MPs on the operation and his plan to withdraw all troops and the 8,000 Jewish settlers from Gaza next year in a speech on the first day of the winter session of parliament.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english/?id=11527 (680 words)

	MIFTAH--‘Days of Penitence:’ Success or Failure
		Now that Operation “Days of Penitence” is over, it is worth exploring the effectiveness this operation has had in fulfilling its prime goal.
		Operation ‘Days of Penitence’ was recently described by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon a successful operation that significantly decreased the number of Qassams being fired at near by Israeli towns and cities.
		The initial aim of this operation was to hinder and/or decrease the number of Qassam rockets being fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza.
	www.miftah.org /Display.cfm?DocId=5282&CategoryId=3 (709 words)

	"Days of Penitence": The acrid odour of burning flesh
		And nothing protects you from the sounds, the tears and laments of the mothers and fathers, husbands, wives and children of the dead, the screams of the injured, the wail of ambulance sirens, sniper fire, the thud of tank shells and the too-frequent explosions as another Apache shell lands.
		It is only when I sit down to write up my notes made here in the last few days that the cruelty of the IDF name for this attack "Days of Penitence" hits me. They are not just slaughtering unarmed civilians, but language itself.
		In early media reports, the IDF said she was planting a bomb; they later were forced to admit the accusation was false.
	www.fromoccupiedpalestine.org /node.php?id=1441 (1761 words)

	Arutz 7 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Israel Defense Forces' Operation "Days of Penitence" continues for its fifth day, and the army has scored two successes since last night.
		Earlier in the evening, an IAF helicopter gunship fired at a three-man terrorist cell that was placing explosives to detonate against Israeli troops operating in the area.
		Operation "Days of Penitence" was initiated on Thursday, several hours after a Kassam attack at the Negev city of Sderot killed an Israeli baby and his 4-year-old cousin who were playing outside the home of one of them.
	www.israelnationalnews.com /print.php3?what=news&id=69797 (341 words)

	Times of Oman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Two members of the Hamas were also killed in an air strike on the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza, the main focus of the army’s so-called Operation Days of Penitence since its launch late last month.
		Palestinian anger over the operation has also been fuelled by the killing of a number of children, including a schoolgirl who was allegedly pumped full of bullets by a commander last week after she had been gunned down.
		“The operation has exhausted itself, and continuing it is liable only to lead to complications,” one senior officer told the Maariv newspaper, on condition of anonymity.
	www.timesofoman.com /print.asp?newsid=2966 (277 words)

	Birzeit University Students, Staff and Faculty Appeal for Gaza (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Operation "Days of Penitence", a grotesque reference to the holiest days in the Jewish year, is anopen admission of Israel's intent to wreak indiscriminate suffering and collective punishment on the civilian populations of Jabaliya refugee camp, Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip.
		On the same day, 10-year-old Raghda Adnan Al-Assar, died in hospital after being shot at her desk inside a UN elementary school classroom in Khan Younis 3 weeks earlier.
		The students, faculty and employees of Birzeit University are outraged at the escalating violence and war crimes being perpetrated by the Israeli military occupation in the Gaza Strip and urgently demand that the international community:
	www.palestinemonitor.org /new_web/birzeit_university_gaza_operation.htm (614 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The on-going operation ‘Days of Penitence’ continues in northern Gaza.
		The IDF has said that there is no time limit to the present ‘Days of Penitence’ operation being carried out in northern Gaza against Palestinian terrorists.
		Heavy mobile units continue to operate in the strip searching and destroying Kassem launch sites and production facilities in an operation that has been described as the biggest of its kind since the start of the intifada four years ago.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=4513 (76 words)

	IAF role grew in Days of Penitence operation - Haaretz - Israel News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Operation Days of Penitence, which ended, in practice, at the weekend, had an objective over and above the declared goal of reducing the immediate Qassam rocket threat facing the Negev town of Sderot.
		The Israel Defense Forces' large-scale and very aggressive operation in the northern Gaza Strip was also evidence of an attempt to define "game rules" and tactics for the conflict with the Palestinians ahead of the implementation of the disengagement plan and subsequent situation on the ground.
		An IAF assessment at the start of the week shows helicopter gunships were responsible for some 50 percent of the fatalities among armed Palestinians during Days of Penitence.
	www.haaretz.com /hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=490410 (678 words)

	POICA-What Does Sharon want of Gaza?
		The Israeli Army offensive operation in Gaza triggered allegedly, when Qassam rockets lunched onto Sedarot town inside Israel and ended up killing two Israeli children; is far off from the actual reason that led Israel on September 30, 2004 to execute operation ''Days of Penitence'' in Gaza.
		The fact is that the Palestinians and the world anticipated such a massive operation in Gaza as Israeli troops and artillery were on standby for what they believe a reason that constitute legitimate grounds for the Israeli Army to level the northern sector of the Gaza Strip.
		The belligerence of the Israeli military operation in Gaza is unprecedented as it aims to eradicate the Palestinian resistance by increasing the assassinations of Palestinian militant and political leaders, arresting activists and supporters in addition to the massive destruction of dwellings and infrastructure.
	www.poica.org /editor/case_studies/view.php?recordID=451 (868 words)

	More Killed In Gaza As Israel Seizes 'Buffer Zone'
		The Israelis say the operation is aimed at securing a five-mile stretch of territory in the northern Gaza Strip to prevent Hamas militants firing rockets into the Israeli town of Sderot.
		Even though the "extended and large scale" operation won unanimous approval in the security cabinet there were sharp differences, with the justice minister, Yosef Lapid, opposing it.
		By last night questions were already being asked about the effectiveness of pushing into Jabalya after operations in the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun in July and August failed to stop the rocket attacks.
	www.rense.com /general57/ewe.htm (412 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		"Days of Penitence": A New Criminal Operation of Zionism in Palestine
		The real purpose of the operation as Sharon said is "to change radically the situation in the Gaza Strip" (Haaretz 3 October).
		Sharon's move is creating a new crisis among the Zionist bourgeoisie: the editorials of Yediot Haharonot ("A Unilateral Illusion") and Haaretz ("An Operation without a Purpose"), two of the most important Israeli papers, are critical of Sharon's policy and its failure to bring to an end the Palestinian uprising.
	www.po.org.ar /english/872criminal.htm (253 words)

	Al-Aqsa Intifada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The stand-off was resolved by the deportation of 13 Palestinian militants to Europe and the IDF ended its 38 day siege of the church.
		Subsequently, on May 18 the IDF launched Operation Rainbow with a stated aim of striking the terror infrastructure of Rafah, destroying smuggling tunnels, and stopping a shipment of SA-7 missiles and improved anti-tank weapons.
		On September 29, after a Qassam rocket hit the Israeli town of Sderot and killed two Israeli children, the IDF launched Operation Days of Penitence in the north of the Gaza Strip.
	al-aqsa-intifada.iqnaut.net (6994 words)

	[No title]
		Six days into Israel’s brutal and horrific invasion of the northern area of Gaza, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared that its Army’s incursions would continue ‘indefinitely’.
		Sharon has named his own operation “Days of Penitence”, named after the holiest days in the Jewish year, whereby Jews are to open their hearts and atone for the sins of the past year.
		The Israeli government claims that operation Days of Penitence is a continuation of its own war against alleged (Palestinian) terror.
	www.peacewomen.org /resources/OPT/WILPFPal2004.doc (874 words)

	At the weekly Cabinet meeting 17 October 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Defense Minister Mofaz discussed Operation Days of Penitence and said that after a security establishment assessment held before the weekend, it was agreed that the IDF would redeploy in the Gaza Strip - after having secured the operation’s main goals and objectives.
		Defense Minister Mofaz also discussed the humanitarian aspect of operation “Days of Penitence” noted that efforts were made during the operation to differentiate between terrorist elements and the civilian population, the intention being to reduce harm to civilians.
		In accordance with operational considerations, the humanitarian organizations will be allowed to continue their vital and important activity of transfering humanitarian assistance to the population.
	www.pmo.gov.il /PMOEng/Archive/cabmeet/2004/10/govmes171004.htm (1011 words)

	Operation Days of Penitence Fatalities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Over 100 people, many of whom were allegedly armed and engaged in combat, can be considered Operation Days of Penitence Fatalities, killed during an Israeli military operation in the northern Gaza Strip between September 30, 2004 and October 15, 2004.
		In addition to the two Israeli children, Dorit Insu, 3, and Yuval Ababeh, 5, killed by a Qassam rocket prior to the launch of Operation Days of Penitence, Shulamit Batito, 36, of Nisanit Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip was also killed during this period.
		The 133 reported Palestinian fatalities during Operation Days of Penitence ranged in age from 4 years old to 77 years old.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operation_Days_of_Penitence_Fatalities (472 words)

	PM - Over 60 Palestinians killed in Israeli military operation
		Despite reports of many civilian casualties, Israel's military chiefs say operation "Days of Penitence" as they call it, has so far been successful in killing those behind the rocket strikes.
		And it was the killing of two young Israeli children, one two years old, the other four last week in the town of Sderot, which prompted this operation which they've codenamed "Days of Penitence".
		For example, in the last 24 hours a 13-year-old boy shot in the chest and killed and a deaf and mute man was also shot and killed.
	www.abc.net.au /pm/content/2004/s1212860.htm (935 words)

	October 17, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		More than 30 Palestinian children were killed in the first two weeks of Operation Days of Penitence in the Gaza Strip.
		It's no wonder that many people term such wholesale killing of children "terror." Whereas in the overall count of all the victims of the Intifada the ratio is three Palestinians killed for every Israeli killed, when it comes to children the ratio is 5:1.
		According to B'Tselem, the human rights organization, even before the current operation in Gaza, 557 Palestinian minors (below the age of 18) were killed, compared to 110 Israeli minors.
	www.apomie.com /levy.htm (1501 words)

	Analyst: Gaza operation basically useless (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The open-ended incursion, code named Operation Days of Penitence, was approved during a late-night security cabinet meeting, and includes the temporary establishment of an IDF-controlled buffer zone in northern Gaza.
		This is because Prime Minister Ariel Sharon remains determined to implement the expulsion of Gaza’s Jewish residents and the withdrawal of all military forces from the Strip, according to Lerner.
		These realities render Operations Days of Penitence useless as a long term deterrent to rocket attacks on Sderot and other Israeli towns.
	www.jnewswire.com /articles/print/196 (463 words)

	Israel begins troop withdrawal. 16/10/2004. ABC News Online
		Israeli forces have begun withdrawing from the northern Gaza Strip, with the Government saying the two-week operation has met its main objective.
		Operation Days of Penitence - the codename for the incursion which has claimed 128 Palestinian and three Israeli lives - was aimed at stopping rockets from being fired into Israeli towns.
		The operation began after two children were killed when rockets struck the Israeli town of Sderot last month.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200410/s1221328.htm (236 words)

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