The ground assault came hours after a short break in the fighting. Residents rushed outside their homes to take advantage of a five-hour “humanitarian truce” between Israel and Hamas requested by the United Nations. It was a brief respite on a day that began with mortar fire from Gaza and ended with the ground assault.Too bad we don't know the name of this mosque.
During the lull, a group of men at a mosque in northern Gaza said they had returned to clean up the green glass from windows shattered in the previous day’s bombardment. But they could be seen moving small rockets into the mosque.
Here's an IDF video from 2009 showing how Hamas hides weapons in mosques, schools and other civilian structures.
UPDATE: The article's update in the afternoon took out the reference to the rockets: But an earlier story still has that reference.
