Israel bombs university in Gaza

Found on BBC News on Saturday, 27 December 2008
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Israeli air force jets have bombed the Islamic University in the Gaza Strip, a significant cultural symbol for Hamas.

The university is a centre of support for Hamas - the Islamist militant group which controls the Gaza Strip. Many of its top officials graduated from there.

The exiled leader of Hamas, Khaled Meshaal, has called for a new intifada, or uprising, against Israel, while the movement's Gaza leader, Ismail Haniya, called the attack an "ugly massacre".

It may sound harsh, but it's getting boring. All the time you hear about rockets flying from here to there, attacks from there to here and so on. Two thickheaded players. That should end up pretty ugly and probably goes on until one side is wiped out.