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IDF soldier wounded, 19 Gazan rioters reported shot as border heats up
[IsraelTimes] Israel strikes back with tank fire at Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®, posts after serviceman hit by improvised explosive, as dozens of Gazooks burn tires, throw bombs at troops and security fence, army says.An IDF soldier was moderately injured in festivities along the northern Gazoo border on Sunday night, days after a similar attack lightly maimed a Border Police officer, the army said. The serviceman appeared to have been hit by an improvised explosive thrown by Paleostinians during a riot along the Gazoo border, east of the city of Jabaliya, around 9:00 p.m., the Israel Defense Forces said. He was taken to Ashkelon’s Barzilai Medical Center in moderate condition. The soldier sustained shrapnel wounds to the neck, the hospital said. During the same clash in the northern Gazoo Strip, 19 Paleostinians were maimed by Israeli gunfire, the front man for the Hamas-run Gazoo health ministry said in a statement to news hounds. They suffered varying injuries of different degrees, he added. One person was maimed, sustaining a head wound, according to the health ministry. The Gazoo health ministry front man said there were no Paleostinian fatalities in the clash. Paleostinian media reported that the rioters tried to breach the security fence, but were driven back by Israeli gunfire. In response to the riot, Israeli tanks shelled two Hamas observation posts near the border, the army said. The military said during the riot, dozens of Paleostinian rioters burned tires and threw improvised bombs at the security fence surrounding the northern Gazoo Strip and the Israeli troops on the other side. "An IDF soldier was injured apparently by an bomb that was thrown at him," the army said. After doctors worked to stop the bleeding to his neck, the soldier was taken into surgery, the hospital said. The Sunday night clash came two days after a massive border riot in which an Israeli Border Police officer from an undercover unit was lightly maimed by shrapnel in the leg when a pipe bomb went kaboom!next to his team, police said. An Israeli Military Intelligence assessment released last Wednesday warned that Hamas, the terror group that controls Gazoo, may seek to spark a war with Israel in the near future in an attempt to elicit international sympathy and an influx of international aid money to the Gazoo Strip. The IDF believes Hamas or the Iran-backed Paleostinian 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 assassination 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... , the second largest terror group in Gazoo, could attempt to draw Israel into a war by conducting an attack along the border ‐ an anti-tank missile strike, an ambush from an as-yet-undiscovered tunnel or a similar low-level but significant attack. In light of this view, IDF chief Lt. Gen. Aviv Kohavi, whose tenure began last month, called for the military to update operational plans for fighting in the Gazoo Strip. Posted by: trailing wife 2019-02-18 |
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