Israeli Helicopter Strike in Gaza Kills Two and Wounds 35

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Oct. 20 — Israeli helicopters fired at least two missiles at a car near the Boureij refugee camp in central Gaza after sundown Monday, witnesses said. Two people were killed and 35 wounded, the Palestinian health ministry said.
There was no immediate word about who was in the car. The Israeli military had no comment.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20031020_1493.html

Aditional Info: Two die, many injured and homes in ruins as Israelis bomb Gaza GUARDIAN

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=455548

Nasser Matar was holding a petrol pump, about to fill up a car, when Israeli helicopter missiles slammed into a pick-up truck a few metres from him.

"I was about to switch the pump on," Mr Matar, a garage attendant, said. "If I had switched it on, or if the missiles had hit the petrol stores, there would have been a huge fire. You would not see a trace of this building."

Yesterday was the day of the missiles in Gaza. In a few hours, the Israeli military made three air strikes on the Gaza Strip. Even by the standards that have become routine here in the past three years of violence, so many air strikes in a single day are unusual. Israel has called up hundreds of reservists, and the Palestinian cabinet minister Saeb Erekat accused Israel of planning to invade and reoccupy Gaza.

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[izzie]

1. All built in the good old USA.

:cry:

[drewb]

2. Proof of the extreme care the IDF uses...

They could have hit the "petrol stores", but they chose not to, thereby saving innocent lives...

And you people grouse about the "most moral army in the world"....

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