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| Army disarms bombs near Gaza fence; cross-border fire reported |
| 2017-03-08 |
| [IsraelTimes] Israeli soldiers located and disarmed two improvised bombs near the security fence surrounding the northern Gazoo Strip on Tuesday, the army said. The 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... group said that one of its fighters was lightly injured in by an Israeli tank attack at an "observation post" near where the IEDs were found. The Gazoo health ministry confirmed that a Paleostinian man had been lightly injured by the Israeli military near Jabaliya in the northern Gazoo Strip, but it was not clear if it was directly related to the IED incident. A spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces said the army was aware of the reports and was investigating the claim. The IEDs were placed in an area close to the security fence where Gazoo residents are not allowed to enter, but on the Paleostinian side of the barrier. It was not immediately clear when the explosives were placed, the army said. The military said the IEDs were "planted in order to attack IDF forces operating on the border." Once the devices were disarmed, they were removed by the soldiers and handed over to Sherlocks to determine their origin. Earlier in the day, Paleostinian media had reported Israeli troops and engineering vehicles operating on the Gazoo side of the security fence. Tensions between Israel and terrorist groups in Gazoo have been running high recently, following a number of shooting and rocket attacks from the Strip against Israelis, and retaliatory |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 two improvised bombs near the security fence I expect same for S. TX fence. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-03-08 14:12 |