Israel Launches Ground Offensive In GazaBrandon Turbeville Announcing the offensive on Twitter, the Israeli Defense Forces wrote Our goal is to target Hamas tunnels that enable terrorists to infiltrate Israel and carry out attacks. Although there was a brief ceasefire early Thursday so as to allow residents to stock up on food and other supplies, fighting resumed between the Israeli occupiers and Hamas when rockets were fired into Israeli occupied territory. The Israelis responded by launching two airstrikes in the Gaza strip. Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, an Israeli military spokesman, stated that the operation will be open-ended and that We [Israel] will be striking the infrastructure. We will be striking the operatives in order to safeguard the civilians of the state of Israel especially issues to do with tunneling, that was exemplified earlier today. The ground offensive comes as no surprise as thousands of Israeli soldiers had begun massing on the border of Gaza in recent days. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that he has instructed the military to go ahead with the operation after Hamas rejected an Egyptian-brokered peace plan. In light of the despicable and relentless aggression by Hamas and the dangerous infiltration into Israel, Israel is obliged to protect its citizens, he said. Protecting Israeli citizens, of course, is simply another name for the ethnic cleansing and further colonization of land that does not belong to the occupying force known to the world as Israel. Recently by Brandon Turbeville: Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Florence, South Carolina. He has a Bachelors Degree from Francis Marion University and is the author of six books, Codex Alimentarius The End of Health Freedom, 7 Real Conspiracies,Five Sense Solutionsand Dispatches From a Dissident, volume 1 and volume 2, and The Road to Damascus: The Anglo-American Assault on Syria.Turbeville has published over 300 articles dealing on a wide variety of subjects including health, economics, government corruption, and civil liberties. Brandon Turbevilles podcast Truth on The Tracks can be found every Monday night 9 pm EST at UCYTV. He is available for radio and TV interviews. Please contact activistpost (at) gmail.com. 