The Palestinian Authority today released 25 militants from two detention centres in Nablus after an Israeli air attack on the town. Palestinian officials said the move was designed to keep the militants, who come from the Hamas and Islamic Jihad groups, out of harm's way. Among those released were Mohammed Tawalbeh and Ali Safouri, two leading Islamic Jihad members, who had been included on a US list of 33 militants that Washington wanted to see behind bars. In the West Bank town of Jenin, a crowd stormed an apartment building after the Nablus airstrike and released seven suspected militants detained there by Palestinian police. Palestinian police said 103 suspected informers with Israel remained locked up despite the airstrike by Israeli F16 warplanes which wounded 11 Palestinians.
The attack was a response to the killing of three Israeli settlers last night, a woman and her two children, by a lone Palestinian gunman in the settlement of Hamra, in the Jordan Valley.
We certainly wouldn't want any of our gunmen to get hurt. Don't know what the fuss was about. It was just some woman and a couple kids. Wonder howcome you never hear about muftis exploding or getting shot? |