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Hamas, Jihad botch attack on Erez Junction
Using three jeeps disguised to look like IDF vehicles and rigged with explosives, Palestinians launched an attack on Israeli positions around the Erez Crossing at Gaza on Saturday. No Israelis were injured, but four Palestinians were killed and at least 15 wounded. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, calling it a joint "self-sacrifice operation" in a message posted on the Hamas Web site.
(Self sacrifice and others)
A convoy of three
(Boom,Boom and Boom, Cool!)
vehicles, including two jeeps and a taxi, blew up on the Palestinian side of the Erez Crossing close to a Palestinian police position.
(Looks like the mossad provided the C4)
Shortly after, another jeep containing two Palestinians approached an IDF post located on the Israeli side where workers cross into Israel from the Gaza Strip. Soldiers who spotted the jeep opened fire, killing one dumbass occupant as he stepped out of the vehicle to shoot at the soldiers and the other Palestinian who remained inside the jeep. A taxi driver at the scene said the blast was huge. Pieces of burned flesh were stuck to his taxi.
(Considering that this is a palestinian we are talking about here, he’ll probably regard it as tastfull decoration )
"The sound of the explosion was huge and powerful, followed by intense machine gun fire from the Israeli army outpost," Ali al-Basyouni said. At least one other witness also heard intense gunfire following the explosion.
(IE one survived but not for very long)
Various earlier reports erroneously stated that the attack was on an Israeli tank and that a Kassam rocket had been fired. In a telephone interview, Islamic Jihad spokesman Nafez Azzam said, "It is clear that the ongoing Israeli attacks against the Palestinian thugs with machineguns people motivate the Palestinian resistance to respond to such attacks - and thus resisting the occupation becomes a necessity, for it is considered self-defense by confronting the continued Israeli aggressions." Erez Crossing, which is closed under the general closure over the Purim holiday, has become the focal point for Palestinian attacks emanating from Gaza, an army source said. In the most recent attack, on Feb. 26, two Palestinian gunmen used tunnels and killed a soldier before being shot dead. The next day bulldozers leveled 120 Palestinian-owned shops built above of the underground passage. Also Saturday, IDF forces hunting fugitives in and around Tulkarm shot and killed an armed Palestinian, identified as Taher Abu Sariyeh, 19. Shots were fired at the troops, the army said. And in Deir Amar, west of Ramallah, IDF forces arrested two Tanzim fugitives.
Posted by: Evert Visser 2004-03-06
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=27566