 Israeli multi-winged aircraft hovering across dark and stormy skies carried out an overnight raid striking a metal workshop suspected of being a makeshift factory for making short-range rockets in a district in Gaza city, amid high tension resulting from a bombing attack on Monday that killed at least nine people and wounded 60 others in the heart of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.
Suddenly a shot rang out! Somewhere, a woman screamed.
"Norton!" Armstrong said, catching the faint whiff of cordite. "There's something amiss, and I intend to find out what it is!" |
Palestinian security sources said early on Tuesday that Israeli gunship helicopters struck the workshop with missiles in the region of Askula in the middle of Gaza City, destroying the whole compound but inflicting no casualties.
| Amazingly, Armstrong was untouched by the furious fusillade of hot lead! |
The strike, however, inflicted extensive damage in nearby buildings and panicked civilians, namely children, huddling indoors.
"Quick, Miss Whittington! Get the children indoors!" he cried.
"Oh, Jack!" she replied. "The puppies! The kittens! The baby ducks!"
"Yes! Get them all! I'll hold them off!"
"You've been shot!" she cried.
"It's only a flesh wound!"
"Oh, Jack! If something should happen to you, I'd... I'd..."
"Miss Whittington! Cynthia! Go! Now! Before it is too late!" he said tenderly, clasping her to his manly chest. |
Israeli warplanes have repeatedly targeted such workshops, suspected of fabricating and assembling locally-made short-range missiles, used by the Palestinian factions to hit Israeli targets.
| The Baron marched stiffly to the map table, screwing his monocle more securely into his eye. The duelling scar disfiguring his coldly handsome face was like a flame in the dim light. "Zeese wörkshöps," he sneered, pointing to the pitiful village's location, "are suspected of fabricating and assembling löcally-made shört-range missiles. Ve must... eradicate zem!" |
The Palestinians, who cannot import heavy arms from abroad due to Israeli measures, have designed these rockets, using meagre materials available on the local market.
"I'd like two rocket motors and a detonator, please!"
"Aisle 6, next to the Pampers." |
The rockets are said to be of limited destruction capacity, but they are perceived of being of "psychological impact" on the Israeli military -- considering the fact that Israel has built a huge fence around the Palestinian territories in the hope of foiling ground attacks.
"Professor Farrington! Surely you're not proposing..."
"Yes! A gigantic steel-reinforced concrete umbrella over the entire country!" |
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