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| Another boomer, this one 10 years old |
| 2002-04-09 |
| FoxNews is reporting a 10-year-old exploded on the West Bank, killing an unknown number of IDF soldiers... The charge was made by Benjamin Netanyahu... I think this might be the incident he's talking about... Netanyahu later backed off the 10-year-old claim, saying instead that the boomer was "very young." The casualties the army suffered in the Jenin refugee camp yesterday were caused by bombs planted by terrorists and exploded by a suicide bomber in a well-planned ambush. OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Yitzhak Eitan said in a briefing that fighting in the camp is some of the fiercest of the past week. "The terrorists continue to refuse our calls asking them to surrender," he said. "Terrorists affiliated with Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Fatah pay no attention to the local civilian population, and use them as human shields in their fight against us. They are determined to fight us. [But] we will continue to battle with them until we are victorious. We are more determined than they are." Eitan noted that many of the houses and alleyways in the camp are boobytrapped, adding that soldiers have uncovered numerous bomb factories and enormous amounts of explosives. "We know that the large amounts of explosives, bombs and suicide bombers found in the camp were all to be used in attacks against the civillian population inside Israel," he said. Eitan said the bombing infrastructure responsible for numerous suicide terrorist attacks that killed scores of Israelis and wounding hundreds is located in the camp. He also said the army decided against using jets to strike the camp because the area is mixed with a passive civilian population. The army opted instead to have soldiers conduct house-to-house searches, progressing slowly and cautiously. "Soldiers and officers - reservists and regular troops alike - have been fighting around the clock, shoulder-to-shoulder, for a number of days and continue determinedly," he said. In other areas of the West Bank, the fighting continues. "Soldiers have uncovered enormous amounts of explosives, bomb factories, and hundreds of fugitives have been arrested," Eitan said. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |