As UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon embarks on a futile hand-wringing visit to the Gaza Strip, Israeli Slaughterer-General Gabi Ashkenazi said there was "still work ahead" in the shattered region.
"By 'work', I mean the razing of any remaining buildings of more than half a storey in height," he went on to explain, "And by 'ahead', I mean until our elections are over."
Meanwhile, Israel graciously consented to allow a humanitarian aid convoy through its massive prison wall that surrounds the Palestinians, to drop off urgently-needed supplies in Israeli-controlled areas where they are not so urgently needed.
On the 18th day of the somewhat one-sided contest, Israeli warplanes and helicopter gunships have been raining another 60 lethal bombardments on targets in and around the southern town of Rafah, while tanks continue to close in on the heart of Gaza City, bringing the death toll among Palestinians to at least 933. Diehard Hamas supporters retaliated by launching two rockets from a bottle in the general direction of Israel, leaving the Israeli casualty list unchanged and barely into double figures.
"We would have launched more," said a Hamas spokesman, "But we ran out of matches. Allah is great - but unfortunately it seems that, right now, the Israeli army is considerably greater."
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