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| IDF preparing 'massive operation' against Hamas in Gaza |
| 2002-06-25 |
| Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said that Israel was "preparing to launch a massive operation in the Gaza Strip against the Hamas organization, the beginning of which we witnessed today," a reference to Monday morning's apparent assassination in the Strip, in which missile-firing IAF helicopter gunships killed two senior Hamas military commanders and four other people. This is what they should have just gone ahead and done in the wake of Defensive Shield. Sharon said that due to the recent increase in terror attacks and warnings of attacks, "a number of measures in the territories, beginning with a massive incursion into cities and remaining there indefinitely," will be carried out. According to Sharon, troops will remain in Palestinian towns in an effort to capture and arrest terrorists. Sharon emphasized that the operation was not meant to be an invasion to occupy the territories but rather meant to deal with those who carry out terror attacks and their commanders. "We do not intend to control the Palestinian's civilian lives," said the prime minister. Only to control the Paleostinian population. There's a difference... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |