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Israel to Resume Hamas ’Assassinations’ after Suicide Bomb
EFL - the Scotsman
Israel is expected to resume targeted killings of senior Hamas militants, a security official says, after a Palestinian suicide attacker blew herself up at a Gaza crossing, killing four Israelis.
Whutta surprise - cause/effect lessons starting up again. Yassin first, please
Top army commanders met at the Defence Ministry yesterday to consider a response.
I vote for a violent one.
After high-profile, but ineffective, attacks against Palestinian leaders in the summer – bombing a house where the entire Hamas leadership was meeting and a helicopter strike aimed at the top Hamas spokesman – Israel had scaled back its attacks in concert with a significant drop in Hamas bombings.
worked for a while, hope they got the intel on where these assholes hide out now
However, there was never evidence of even an unspoken agreement between the two enemies. Israel insisted that the downturn was attributable to its own security forces, claiming that they arrested as many as 30 potential suicide bombers. For their part, Hamas leaders, though often in hiding to avoid Israeli strikes, kept up their bluster vitriol spew militant pronouncements and rebuffed efforts by Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qureia and Egyptian mediators to declare a halt to attacks against Israelis. The suicide bombing on Wednesday put an end to the ”so-called quiet period”, said the Israeli air force commander, Maj Gen Dan Halutz.
expect booms on the other side as well, now
Halutz denied that the reduction in targeted killings was linked to a slowdown in Palestinian attacks. “Since it is a preventive measure, it has nothing to do with the number of casualties that we have,” he told a meeting of the Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs yesterday. Air force helicopters launching missiles have been used in most of the targeted killings, which Palestinians say is assassination of their terrorist killer leaders. Without giving details, Halutz said the air force and military intelligence have developed “pinpoint” methods to “hit only those who deserve it”. However, dozens of bystanders have been killed in air strikes in towns, cities and refugee camps. Wednesday’s attack at the Erez border crossing between Israel and Gaza was the first time the Hamas sent a female suicide bomber, and the group threatened more violence. Thousands marched through Gaza City during the funeral of Reem Raiyshi, 22, a mother of two small children. Masked gunmen carried her coffin, draped in the green Hamas flag.
Bury the bitch in bacon
“It is not enough to call her a hero. Calling her hero does not give the whole truth. This woman abandoned her husband and children in order to win paradise,” a Hamas leader, Mahmoud Zahar, said in a eulogy.
She was a Shero!
The Israeli security official said the Hamas spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, issued a religious edict permitting women to carry out bombings, something Hamas resisted in the past, and that he personally approved Wednesday’s attack.
Posted by: Frank G 2004-01-15
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