Israel kills bystander in Gaza strike on militants

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L26376351.htm

GAZA, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Helicopter gunships fired missiles at a car carrying Hamas gunmen in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing an elderly bystander, as Israel pressed on with one of its bloodiest hunts for militants in three years of violence.

The strike, the third in less than a week, showed Israel's resolve to keep up attacks on Hamas after a suicide bombing on a Jerusalem bus killed 21 people, including six children, dealing a heavy blow to a U.S.-led peace plan.

The helicopters fired a salvo of missiles at the car during the evening rush hour in Jabalya refugee camp near Gaza City.

Two members of the military wing of the militant Islamic group Hamas who were in the car survived the strike, with one of the men sustaining only light injuries, Hamas sources said.

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[WillyT]

1. Was That The Elderly Man With The Mule Driven Cart ???

Or another bystander?

:shrug:

[sonias]

2. plus they wounded 26 other innocents

Israel Missile Strike Kills 1, Wounds 26
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=716&e=4&u=/ap/20030826/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians
"In the latest Israeli operation, a helicopter fired three missiles at a car stuck in a traffic jam on a crowded residential street just north of Gaza City, near the Jebaliya refugee camp."
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Israel is more than applying an "eye for an eye" style of justice. They are so wrong in taking this tact.

Sonia

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4. I think so also -

Why can't Israel give back the land to the 1967 boundaries? Wouldn't that be better than watching blood flow in the street.

[tinnypriv]

5. It doesn't help that the US

Is funding construction beyond those boundaries:



Tax dollars at work building the wall further into the heart of the West Bank. :eyes:

[quilp]

3. Only a "bystander"? Not an 'innocent" bystander?

If these "bystanders" will insist in getting in the way of an Israeli missile of justice then they must accept the consequences. When the those Palestinian "terrorists" kill "innocent Israelis" it is deliberate. Israelis live on a higher moral plane. When they kill a "bystander" it isn't deliberate, it's that they just don't give a shit.