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Israeli director: Fence is doing its job
From the ’I Love It When a Plan Comes Together’ Dept. Edited for brevity.
Palestinian terror organizations in the Gaza Strip are now developing an artillery weapon that would allow them to continue attacking Israeli towns even after the implementation of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s unilateral disengagement plan and evacuation of the Strip, Shin Bet security services Director Avi Dichter said Tuesday. This weapon could be fired over the security fence separating the Gaza Strip from Israel. Speaking to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Dichter noted the groups’ efforts to develop such a weapon are liable to push Israel into carrying out a military operation in the Gaza Strip resembling Operation Defensive Shield, which took place in the West Bank in April 2002, following a suicide bombing at a Netanya hotel on the first night of Passover that killed 29 people. Palestinian terror organizations have upgraded their weapons and explosives and are planning to make use of chemical agents in the future, Dichter said.
A little counterbattery should take care of any piece large enough to have any sort of range, I’d think. Would even the Paleos be stupid enough to try to deploy something that vulnerable and immobile?
Dichter also said Tuesday that there has been an absolute halt in terrorist activities in the areas in which the West Bank separation fence has been constructed. Speaking ahead of the start of the second day of the hearings on the barrier at the International Court of Justice, Dichter said that infiltrations into Israeli territory have been from areas where the fence has not yet been completed, such as Kafr Qasem and Jerusalem. Dichter said that most of the terrorist activity had originated in the Samaria area of the West Bank, but maintained that "since the barrier has been constructed, terror in the area has ceased completely." According to the Shin Bet chief, Israeli cities that had been subjected to a large number of terrorist attacks in the past, such as Kfar Sava, Netanya and Hadera, had been quiet since the fence was erected.
Posted by: Dar 2004-02-24
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