As the casualty numbers climb and the media distorts the picture, we can see that this is becoming the largest Israeli assault on the Palestinian people in almost 50 years.  Check out the story from Electronic Intafada:

Most Gaza casualties were non-combatants, civilians 
Press release, Al Mezan, 28 December 2008 

 

A Palestinian family rushes from the scene of an Israeli missile strike on a building in the Rafah refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, 28 December 2008. (Hatem Omar/MaanImages)

In one of its bloodiest military operations, the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) initiated a wide-scale air strike operation against the Gaza Strip…