Palestinians: 2 dead, 20 hurt in IAF missile strike in Gaza

[papau]

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/333570.html
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-mideast-missiles.html


Palestinians: 2 dead, 20 hurt in IAF missile strike in Gaza

By Haaretz Staff and Agencies



Israel Air Force gunboat helicopters fired threemissiles at a target north of Gaza City on Tuesdayevening, killing at least two people and seriouslywounding another, according to hospital officialsquoted in CNN. A total of 20 people werereportedly wounded in the operation. Although the target was notimmediately clear, unconfirmedreports said that the shellstargeted a car, which wasreportedly carrying Hamas militants. An Israeli security source said that the target of the strikewas a Hamas leader.

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Leaders and activists of Hamas and the militantIslamic Jihad group have gone into hidingfollowing the Israeli threat. Last Thursday, Israel assassinated Hamasco-founder Ismail Abu Shanab. <snip>

[sujan]

1. time to arm the Palestinians

Israeli malintent of destroying all the arab muslims in that area has to be neutralized.

[toopers]

3. I believe the Palestinians are armed

and they take it out on unarmed Jewish civilians.

[stopthegop]

4. yep...say maybe a bus full of kids and old people...

just as an example...

[sujan]

8. need to arm them more

the number of palestinians killed is almost 4 times more than the Israelis. Need to balance that out.

[The Magistrate]

18. If Numbers Are To Be Juggled, Dear

The total of Arab Palestinians is but three or so per ten thousand: hardly evidence for a determiniation to kill all Arabs, as you stated above. Such hyperbole does not do your cause any good, but rather opens you to ridicule for hyperventilation.

[sujan]

20. really?

what do you make of this?
http://www.inq7.net/brk/2003/may/03/brkafp_12-1.htm and that was back in may.

hyperbole my ass, I am just waiting on the world to get sick and tired of this bullshit and take some hard action against Israel.

[nn2004]

24. Here's what I make of it

"The Israeli troops were in a house close to the border, where they had found a tunnel exit, when they came under fire from small arms and rocket-propelled grenades."

The reporter got caught in a crossfire that was started by militants. The action that needs taken is against the hamas terrorists and the PA should be leading the way.

[The Stranger]

23. Interesting seeing you justifying the killing.

And talking about causes. Do keep talking. Besides the superfluous faux legalese, we enjoy learning more about your true cause.

[The Stranger]

21. Like the unarmed ones with the U.S.-made rifles, grenade launchers, tanks,

Apache helicopters, Hellfire missles and nuclear weapons?

Riiiighhht.

[sujan]

22. oh but

can't you see palestinians taking out israel with stones and suicide bombers? I mean they surely need all those cool weapons to deter that.

[Kbowe]

26. State sponsored terrorism...pure and simple!

And we support these bastards!

[THUNDER HANDS]

2. isn't it amazing

How Israel manages to find all these "senior Hamas leaders" and terrorists AFTER an attack happens?

:eyes:

[0007]

5. Right on!

Never ceases to amaze me. Like of like finding the hijacker's passport after he flew the plane into the WTC, 'eh?

You'd think the Palestinian would get smart to the GTO's

[Karmadillo]

6. 65 year old killed, four children wounded, 8 yr old in critical condition

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=716&e=2&u=/ap/20030826/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_strike

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The attack killed bystander Hassan Hamlawi, 65, who was sitting on the sidewalk outside his water pipe shop when the missiles hit nearby. At least 26 bystanders were wounded, doctors said. Among those hurt were four children, including an 8-year-old boy who was in critical condition, doctors said.

Just minutes earlier, an Israeli gunboat fired two shells toward northern Gaza City, hitting an empty plot of land. Initial reports that several people were wounded in that attack could not be verified.

more...

[mmm]

7. Time to arm the Palestinians

before it is too late

[sujan]

9. exactly

[nn2004]

15. A better idea

How about the hamas terrorists stop hiding behing innocents and getting them hurt. If the Palestinians that have arms would use them to arrest the terrorists among them then peace would be a document away and their lives would be improved.

Letting the terrorist run free in your town just prolongs the war and gets innocents killed while the IDF goes about their justified job of eliminating the terrorists that are blowing up busses of kids.

[Noordam]

16. The car was in a traffice jam

"At the time of the strike, the car was stuck in a traffic jam just north of Gaza City, near the Jebaliya refugee camp" - AP

So the CRAZY copter pilot fired three missles into a group of cars hoping to get "the target".

[StandWatie]

25. very slowly for you..

Gaza has been on lockdown for three years...no "terrorists" there...

[wellst0nev0ter]

11. Won't That Make Hassan The OLDEST Casualty

in this conflict?

[StandWatie]

12. not even close..

RAMALLAH (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers on Tuesday shot dead a 95-year-old Palestinian woman who was taking a taxi home after a medical check-up in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Palestinian witnesses and medics said.

They said troops opened fire on the van the woman was riding in when it tried to bypass rubble that Israeli forces had used to block the road between Ramallah and her home village of Atara.

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/wbur/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=426045

[StandWatie]

10. obvious collective punishment

none of the Palestinian population has left Gaza since 2000, they live in a prison and don't have the ability to commit "terrorist" attacks and haven't done anything in the past few years with the exception of some Katushka rocket attacks fired blindly into the Negev followed by a draconian Israeli airstrike about a year ago.

All the bombers and "gunmen" come from the West Bank but somehow bombing Gaza is "counter-terrorism".

[papau]

14. Hamas Social is a good, Hamas military is a bad & located in Gaza

There are many Hamas in the West Bank, of course, but the leadership is in Gaza.

A major problem for Israel and the PA is that Hamas has a better and more extensive social services structure than the PA - they do a hell of a lot of good.

The "military wing" - I'm not sure how a "wing" exists - of Hamas are indeed a bunch of terrorist.

How does one support Hamas the social services org, while stopping Hamma the terrorist org?

A bit of a problem.

:-)

[StandWatie]

17. they make phone calls..

They aren't capable of doing much of anything in Gaza at least physically.

They can call for attacks but I don't see the point in striking at them over that when they can't physically carry them out since presumably Hamas cells in the West Bank would just continue to operate at full bore speed without a leadership class to curb them.

[WillyT]

13. Yep, Killed An Old Man Driving A Cart Pulled By A Donkey...

Christ....

[Evil_Dewers]

19. Where are all the Israel/Sharon apologists?

Israel is no better than Palestine...Both practice terror and are terrorists. The difference is that Israel has better (US made) weapons and funding (billions in US taxpayer money). Given the chance, the Palestinian 'terrorists' would fire their helicopter gunships at the Israel Defense Force terrorists and at Sharon the terrorist instead of at Israeli civilians, but they don't really have that option now, do they? But, but (you say) Israel doesn't "target" children and old people since helicopter gunships and tanks only kill terrorists and the old people and children are considered "collateral damage."

*Insert anti-Semite comments after this post*

P.S. The Palestinians are Semites, too.

[newyorican]

27. They hide in the I/P forum

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=124