And More Overkill. By Israel, Of Course

This just keeps getting uglier and uglier. Such massive retaliation is unconscionable.

Israel has struck at the heart of the Palestinian government, hitting the Gaza office of the Hamas prime minister in a new wave of night-time air raids aimed at forcing militants to release a soldier captured by militants a week ago.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he had ordered the military to use "all its might" against Palestinian "terrorists" in order to bring home alive the wounded 19-year-old corporal Gilad Shalit.

Hamas premier Ismail Haniya condemned the overnight helicopter gunship attack which set his office ablaze in a dramatic new warning to his embattled administration.

"It's an attack against a Palestinian symbol. We ask the international community and the Arab League to take its responsibilities towards our people and intervene" to end what he called Israel's "insane policy," he said.

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Note: Photo is from Agence France-Presse (AFP).