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The view from Gaza: Israel bombards Gaza for second day
 GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli warplanes continued to strike several targets across the Gazoo Strip overnight and early Saturday morning for the second day bringing the corpse count to 12, and injuries to 20. Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... 's military wing the Al-Quds Brigades said in a statement that 10 of their fighters were killed since Friday. It said the group launched 41 Grad missiles, 20 homemade projectiles, six mortar shells, and three 107-mm rockets at Israeli targets.
Medical sources, meanwhile, said 26-year-old Muhammad al-Ghamry succumbed to wounds he sustained Saturday morning as Israeli warplanes targeted a car on Salah Ad-Din Street off the coast in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gazoo Strip. They said Islamic Jihad operatives Ahmad Hajjaj, Fayiq Saad, and Muatasim Hajjaj were targeted by fighter jets early Saturday as they were walking near the building of the Paleostinian Legislative Council in the Shujaiyyah neighborhood in Gazoo City. Fayiq Saad and Muatasim Hajjaj were killed immediately, while Ahmad Hajjaj sustained mortal wounds and was pronounced dead shortly after he was evacuated. In Beit Lahiya in the northern Gazoo Strip, an Israeli Another Israeli raid injured four Paleostinians from the same family as a rocket hit a basement on Yarmouk Street in Gazoo City, according to medical sources. Warplanes also targeted a military base used by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,' military wing the al-Qassam Brigades in western Gazoo City. The base was hit twice. No injuries have been reported, however, the attack resulted in power cuts in several neighborhoods. Another Israel's military says over 45 rockets have struck sites in the south, injuring four people, one severely, one moderately and two lightly. It's "Iron Dome" missile defense system has intercepted over 10 Grad rockets ...Soviet-developed 122-mm rockets, usually launched from trucks. Newer versions are reported to have a range of up to 30 km.... which the army says which were fired at the cities of Beer Sheva, Ashdod and Ashkelon. Israel said its aircraft targeted two weapon manufacturing facilities and two rocket launching sites in northern Gazoo, a weapon manufacturing facility in central Gazoo and a "terror activity site" in southern Gazoo. Aircraft targeted a fighter in central Gazoo and six additional squads who were in the final stages of preparing to fire rockets at Israel from separate locations in northern and central Gazoo, the army said. Posted by: trailing wife 2012-03-11 |
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