Israel kills PRC leadership in Gaza airstrike

[King_David]

Iron Dome intercepts Katyusha fired at Ashkelon; terrorist involved in Schalit abduction is killed in strike; PRC: Israel will face consequences.
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Israel’s response to the terror attacks from the Sinai Peninsula came swiftly Thursday evening when the Israel Air Force bombed the southern Gaza Strip, killing the leadership of the Popular Resistance Committee (PRC), who had orchestrated the attacks.

At least seven Israelis, including a soldier from the Golani Brigade, were killed earlier in the day in a multiple-stage attack carried out by PRC members who infiltrated into Israel from Egypt.

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The PRC terrorists killed in the retaliatory IAF airstrike included the head of the terror group Kamal Nirab, who the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) said, personally directed and planned the attack.


Another terrorist killed in the strike was identified as Amas Hamed, commander of the PRC’s military wing and a resident of Rafah. The Shin Bet said that Hamed was involved in the abduction of Gilad Schalit over five years ago and oversaw numerous terror attacks against Israel including suicide bombings and rocket attacks.

Two other known PRC terrorists, including one who was also involved in Schalit’s abduction, were also killed in the airstrike.

“The terrorists were directly involved in the attacks along the Israeli-Egyptian border,” a security official said.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said that Israel would respond forcefully and that the terrorist groups behind the attack would pay a price for their actions.

“I set a principle that when Israeli citizens are hurt we will respond immediately and forcefully,” Netanyahu said. “This principle will also be applied today.”

http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=234389

[King_David]

1. Quick swift action nt

[azurnoir]

2. JPost 'forgets' to mention the 2 year old also killed in the airstrikes

but it's only an accident, right, collateral what do they expect?

[King_David]

3. Good, a conspiracy theory

Jerusalem Post 'forgot'.

;)

[azurnoir]

7. How is JPost neglecting to mention that a Palestinian child was killed

in an IAF airstrike a conspiracy? my post would have indicated to a reasoning mind that JPost did not feel it was worthy of mention

[Riftaxe]

8. If you are going to actively engage in killing civilians

and keep a 2 year old around you, it is apparent you don't care about the child.

[azurnoir]

9. or the mans home was bombed but who would keep a 2 year old there n/t

[Dick Dastardly]

10. It was no accident, the IDF hit the house of the PRC terrorist leader who ordered and planned the

terror attacks. The IDF strike targeted and killed him and 4 other terrorist leaders and not civilians like the terrorists did . The strike also unfortunately killed his 2 year old son who he himself put in harms way. While the strike was certainly no accident what did he expect would happen to his child when he holed up with his child and his other terrorist buddies.

You obviously know the facts from reading them elsewhere. So your attempt to make it sound like some careless random strike with no regard for civilians by the IDF and equivocate it to the terror attacks targeting civilians is obvious and disgusting.

[azurnoir]

11. your attempt at reinterpreting my comment is just wrong

I did not say the airstrike was a mistake or accident, my comment was entirely concerned with JPosts reporting

It was no accident, the IDF hit the house of the PRC terrorist leader who ordered and planned the
Posted by Dick Dastardly


terror attacks. The IDF strike targeted and killed him and 4 other terrorist leaders and not civilians like the terrorists did . The strike also unfortunately killed his 2 year old son who he himself put in harms way. While the strike was certainly no accident what did he expect would happen to his child when he holed up with his child and his other terrorist buddies.

but thanks for confirming that the IAF intentionally hit the mans home regardless of the presence of children

[King_David]

12. +1 nt

[King_David]

4. Israeli officials said six of the seven Israelis killed were civilians and the other was a soldier.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/19/world/middleeast/19israel.html?_r=1&hp

[oberliner]

5. What do you think happens next?

Do you see this escalating even further?

Has the Abbas/Fayyad or someone from the PA made a statement?

[King_David]

6. Erekat warns Israel against 'irresponsible action' in Gaza

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=234371

Thats all I could see.

[shira]

13. They're all civilians. They weren't in the act of terrorizing when they were killed....

...so they count as perfectly innocent civilians minding their own business.

Israel is evil.

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