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3 Paleos Killed Trying to Storm Settlement
Three Palestinian fighters were killed by Israeli occupation soldiers in the small hours of Wednesday, February 12, when they tried to storm a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip. Armed with grenades and knives, the three fighters were shot dead by Israeli occupation troops guarding the Dugit settlement close to the border between the densely-populated Gaza Strip and Israel. The bodies were later handed over to medical officials in Gaza City who were trying to identify them. "We'll get to it. We'll get to it. Hold your horses. (Ewww! That's nasty!)" The resistance attack was the latest in a series of infiltration bids by Palestinian fighters in the coastal strip, where around 7,000 Jewish settlers live in a string of heavily-guarded rural communities facing impoverished cities and refugee camps where more than a million Palestinians live under "Can't understand why our conditions are deplorable. Just because we slaughter our neighbors at the least opportunity, that's no reason for them not to give us jobs or to buy our stuff, is it?" The incident came just hours after an Israeli army captain was shot dead by a Palestinian sniper during an operation in Bethlehem, reoccupied by the Israeli army, like almost the entire West Bank, since last June. Shahar Shmul was fatally wounded in the neck near the Church of the Nativity late Tuesday, February 11, after his infantry unit blew up a suspect car which had been stolen in Israel. Israeli occupation troops declared the town a closed military zone and sent in tanks for the first time since June. Two tanks were seen heading for Manger Square, in front of the Church of the Nativity, the traditional birthplace of Jesus, BBC News Online said. They mean the place where the poor guy was murdered. Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2003-02-12 |
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