Israeli soldiers talk together as they wait on the Israeli border just outside the Gaza Strip, Saturday, Jan. 3, 2009. Israeli tanks and infantry entered Gaza after nightfall Saturday, launching a much anticipated ground offensive in a widening war on Gaza's Hamas rulers.(AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)From AP:
NIR AM, Israel (AP) — The big guns began to thunder as the reddening sun lowered in the sky. After darkness fell, tanks moved like clumsy phantoms toward the border. After seven days of pummeling Gaza from the air, Israel unsheathed its land forces Saturday, raising its war against Gaza's Hamas rulers to a new level.
An artillery barrage in the late afternoon signaled the start of the anticipated ground operation. Israeli military police blocked off all approach roads to Gaza, tightening the off-limits military zone Israel had cordoned off after it launched an aerial onslaught on Dec. 27 to try to silence Hamas rockets that had been pounding southern Israel for weeks.
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