Because they're going after the so called bad guys without regard to the innocents:
<< The Israel Defense Forces has said it has arrested more than 700 Palestinian suspects in Ramallah, including a "relatively large number" wanted by the Israeli government.
Hospital officials in Ramallah said people killed after the Israeli invasion began in the city are being buried near the hospital grounds because there is no more room in the morgue. At least 25 bodies had been brought to the morgue after hospital officials said Monday they had reached capacity.
Elsewhere, the IDF continued to expand its operations with activity in the West Bank towns of Tulkarem, Qalqilya, Bethlehem and Beit Jala.
Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said in an interview Monday with CNN that his forces would likely "enter every territory" to dismantle the "terror infrastructure," while not ruling out a wider regional war. (Full story)
Fighting in Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers react while manning the Kalandia checkpoint near the West Bank town of Ramallah on Tuesday.
The highest West Bank death tally was in Bethlehem, where there was a pitched battle between Israeli troops and Palestinians near the Church of the Nativity and in nearby neighborhoods.
The church has been turned into a makeshift hospital and shelter where Palestinian men, women and children are taking refuge, the city's governor said.
Bethlehem Gov. Mohammad Madani said medical workers began treating people in the church after a nearby mosque was hit by a tank shell and caught fire.
Helicopter gunships fired on at least three buildings, Palestinian sources said. The sources said two people were killed, including a Catholic priest, but the Vatican's representative in the region said the priest was alive and well. The sources said six people were wounded.
The IDF would only confirm that an operation was under way in Bethlehem.
In addition, Israeli tanks rolled into town and were seen within several hundred meters of Manger Square, the location where Christians believe Jesus was born.
As many as 50 Israeli troops were occupying the campus of Bethlehem University, a Vatican-owned institution, said school President Vincent Malham.
"Bethlehem has become a war site for the moment," Malham said. "We are, of course, terrorized and terrified because there's so much shooting going on all around us."
Palestinian security sources said Israeli troops entered one neighborhood and ordered males between the ages of 15 and 50 to leave. >>
<< Hours earlier, a grown man and his mother were killed in their family home where 13 relatives live, hospital sources and a relative inside the home told CNN.
They said Israelis ignited dynamite at the front door and then began firing through it, killing the two family members. Their bodies remained in the home because emergency personnel were unable to reach the area.
Another man, a 60-year-old civilian, was fatally shot in the chest in the region, sources said.
In Ramallah, three Palestinians were killed, including a 66-year-old woman who left a hospital and was walking across the street when she was hit by sniper fire, hospital sources said.
In Hebron, two Palestinians were killed, according to Palestinian security sources.
The Israeli government Monday closed the West Bank and warned foreign journalists to leave.
Two news cameramen -- one from Reuters, the other from Middle East Broadcasting -- said Tuesday they were among a group of three ordered stripped to their boxer shorts by Israeli soldiers during a search in Ramallah.
They were filming soldiers stopping ambulances, they said, and soldiers ordered them to remove their gear and clothes and searched the items.
The two said they were given back their clothes, gear and IDs and allowed to leave. The third cameraman, from ANN, was detained by the military. >>
Israel is going out all gung-ho - why should we support that?
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