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| Five settlers killed by Palestinian thugs on West Bank |
| 2002-04-27 |
| Palestinian gunmen infiltrated a Jewish settlement in the West Bank on Saturday and killed five residents, shortly after Israel ended its latest raid on a Palestinian city in search of militants. Israeli police spokesman Rafi Yaffe said one or more attackers slipped through the defenses of the Adora settlement, west of Hebron, killing five people and wounding at least 14. Israel Radio reported that the assailants apparently escaped after firing on several homes in the settlement. The army conducted a house-to-house search, fearing that at least one assailant may be hiding and may be holding hostages, but found no one. "We heard firing. Someone was shouting 'terrorists, terrorists,'" said Adora resident Ruth Bar Yosef. "They got into one of the houses and shot whoever was there," then moved on to other houses, she said in a radio interview. It's so much easier when there aren't any uniforms in the immediate vicinity to interrupt the serious work of killing unarmed civilians. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |