Israelis find Hamas surface-to-air missiles in northern Gaza strip

TEL AVIV -- Military sources said the Israel Air Force has found Hamas surface-to-air missile squads in the Gaza Strip. They said the squads were using SA-7 missiles and heavy machine guns in the northern Gaza Strip.

"At this point, we don't have any reports of launches," a military source said.

The sources said Hamas was believed to have acquired at least 150 SAM launchers from Iran. They said Hamas appeared to be preserving the weapons for a later stage.

On Jan. 2, the air force tracked a SAM squad in the northern Gaza Strip. A military statement said a Hamas vehicle with anti-aircraft missiles was found and targeted.

Three days later, the military reported targeting a "suspected anti-aircraft missile launcher" in the southern Gaza Strip. A military statement did not elaborate.

The sources said the Hamas regime acquired a large shipment of SAM systems in 2008. They said Hamas squads have undergone training in Iran and Lebanon.

"The Israel Defense Forces will continue to target infrastructure utilized by Hamas and the other terror organizations in Gaza, and will not hesitate to strike those involved both directly and indirectly in attacks against the citizens of the state of Israel," the military said.

Is there anyone uncertain of where all this stuff is leading?

Is there the slightest doubt that only a cataclysmic result ON THE BATTLEFIELD can be the cause for peace to become possible, and ONLY if Iran is cowed, silenced, destroyed or sans mullahs?

The will of the Palestinian peoples is the target. They must want peace, not the Stone and the Tree.

Our Prophet Muhammad said in a famous hadith:

"Judgment Day will come only when the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them, until the Jew hides behind the tree and the stone, and the tree and the stone say: 'Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah , there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him' - except for the Gharqad tree."

Otherwise all the efforts of princes, kings and presidents, initiatives, proposals, and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors, as some people like to say.