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IAF bombs homes of Hamas, PRC militants in Gaza

2006-07-30

An Israel Air Force aircraft bombed the homes of two Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, wounding two people, witnesses said. One missile struck the house of the leader of the Popular Resistance Committees in Beit Hanun in northern Gaza, the coalition of militants said. Flying debris and glass wounded the militant's brother and sister-in-law in a neighboring house.

Israel had warned the Popular Resistance leader to leave his home half an hour before the strike, the witnesses said. "It was a facility used to store weaponry," an Israel Defense Forces
spokeswoman said, confirming the attack.

Awfully nice to warn him. I wouldn't have.

In a separat strike a little over an hour earlier, an IAF aircraft fired a missile into a house in a Hamas stronghold in Gaza City, but there were no casualties, Palestinian witnesses said. Witnesses said the Hamas member had received a warning call from the Israel Defense Forces shortly before the attack and evacuated his family and alerted his neighbors. The house was destroyed but nobody was hurt.

Another warning? Who's running the IDF today, Barney the Purple Dinosaur?

An IDF spokeswoman confirmed an air strike had targeted a structure used by Islamic militant group Hamas, which controls the Palestinian government, without elaborating.

Posted by:Steve White

#4 Olmert=Kofi Annan
Peretz=Juan Williams

Posted by: Poison Reverse 2006-07-30 10:10

#3 Proportionate response. PRC has been threatening to join in with the active attacks going on right now. IAF a) is warning them not to and b) is destroying some of the materiel.

In order to have international willingness to tolerate their campaign against Hezb and Hamas, Israel has to not obviously be bombing the hell out of everyone. This sort of action demonstrates proportionality, which is keeping the Euros more or less quiet during the last two weeks.

Posted by: lotp 2006-07-30 07:10

#2 This just can't be true. You'll never get anywhere doing this before every action. This is not the IDF that I have come to know and love. But then I thought:

Two choices:

1) The IDF is run by Barney the Purple Dinosaur and this is the way things will be from now on.

2) These guys or someone who knew them were informants and this was part of the deal.

Feel free to copy and distribute this as much as you wish.

Posted by: gorb 2006-07-30 02:53

#1 I wanted to post this link too, because I find it incredible to see that the strange leaders of Israel now think that they have to warn terrorists before destroying their homes where they are no more thanks to these warnings!!!

How can they hope to destroy Hamas, if they help Hamas terrorists to escape elimination ?

There is something weird in this behaviour.

Has Israel became a "SOS-Terrorists" charitable organization ?

Posted by: leroidavid 2006-07-30 00:12

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