 WHO WILL END THIS? The hand of an Israeli soldier leans on a magazine of bullets as troops prepare to enter Gaza early Monday. Though the Israeli soldier captured following the killing of an entire family on a Gazan beach was taken in the south, Israeli forces invaded the north. "As far as I'm concerned, the people of [northern towns] Beit Hanun and Beit Lahya can start packing," said Zeev Boim, a senior minister in the Israeli Security Cabinet, 3 July. On the same day, a Palestinian girl weeps as others run behind an ambulance carrying the body of Abdul-Karim Durraj, a Hamas resistance fighter killed by an Israeli missile in Beit Hanun. A deadline for the Israeli government to address the demands of the soldier's captors expired Tuesday photos: AP parent page (6 - 12 July 2006, issue #802) |