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| IDF: Ashkelon hit by Palestinian Kassam missile |
| 2003-08-28 |
| JPost - Reg - Req’d Palestinian terrorists have fired four Kassam 2 missiles into Israel this afternoon, one of which landed in the southern Israeli port city of Ashkelon. Begging for a whacking, huh? This is the first time that Kassam missiles have landed as far north as Ashkelon. The rockets were fired from Beit Hanun in the Gaza Strip. The IDF reported that no casualities were sustained in the attack. Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fired an improved version of the Kassam rocket toward Ashkelon last Sunday. It landed on an empty beach, causing no injuries and leaving only a small crater in the sand. Which, ideally, is what the Paleos will resemble after the retaliation But it marked the first firing of the Kassam-2 since the ill-fated hudna (cease-fire) was declared seven weeks ago, and the first time a rocket almost reached Ashkelon. Hamas and other groups in the Gaza Strip used the period of the cease-fire to extend the range of their home-made Kassam rockets. Busy little beavers, aren’t they? If they put half the effort into productive activities as they do in trying to kill Joooos, they wouldn’t live in such stinking sh&tholes The rocket was fired from Beit Lahiya. Military sources said the rocket traveled only seven kilometers. The IDF retaliated for the Kassam attack on Sunday with pinpoint helicopter missile strikes targeting key Hamas leaders. The Sunday rocket strike came just hours after Palestinian security forces said they had begun arresting weapons smugglers in the Gaza Strip on Saturday evening, seizing weapons and detaining at least 15 suspects. They said they also sealed off two more tunnels used to smuggle weapons from Egypt to the Gaza Strip. Show arrests - posed Israeli security officials dismissed the Palestinian raids as fiction and affirmed that Israel will continue acting against terrorists, a security source said. The Palestinian Authority has decided to implement gradual measures to destroy the terrorist infrastructure, while also trying to discuss a new hudna involving Israel through international diplomatic mediation, Palestinian officials said this week. very gradual, as in letting the big guys age and die naturally It was reported from Gaza today that the PA has frozen several bank accounts of so-called Islamic charities in Gaza and the West Bank. These charities have been funding terror activities according to officials in the Prime Minister’s office. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #5 Isn't Kassam a really bad movie starring Shaquille O'Neil? |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-8-28 9:59:25 PM |
| #4 Well, so much for the much ballyhooed security fence the Israelis are building; it's not even completed, yet the Palis have already found a way to attack Israel despite it. Security fence, hudna, roadmap, etc. are only delaying the inevitable, which is: Israel will have to transfer the Pali population out of Judea, Samaria, and the Gaza strip. And you know what, the people most loathe to do such are the Israelis themselves. They remember their own people being loaded into cattle cars and shipped off to the death camps. It will be a very painfull thing for them to eventually do, but do it, they eventually must. |
| Posted by: jlc 2003-8-28 1:50:15 PM |
| #3 Here's More: Israeli Army Unit Enters Gaza After Rocket Strike GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli tank and two armored bulldozers entered the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants there landed inside a large Israeli city for the first time, witnesses said. They said the bulldozers began felling trees in the Beit Hanoun area. An Israeli security source confirmed the operation. "We are leveling shrubbery, bushes and trees used as shelter for the (militants) who fired the Qassam rocket," the source said. Israeli officials earlier warned the rocket attack could have crossed a "red line" threshold for major military action inside the Palestinian-administered Mediterranean strip after militant factions called off a seven-week-old cease-fire. Palestinian security officials said Palestinian forces had rushed to Beit Hanoun shortly after the rocket was fired to rein in Hamas militants responsible, preventing further launchings. The Qassam rocket hit an industrial zone in the coastal city of Ashkelon, 5.5 miles north of the Gaza boundary, but caused no damage or injuries, the Israeli army said. It was the farthest a Qassam had been fired into Israel since a Palestinian uprising for statehood began in 2000. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-8-28 12:30:58 PM |
| #2 SOG475, Pst..., a citizen of Israel is called ISRAELI, with a 80% chance of being a Jew. Hebrew is the prime language of Israel |
| Posted by: marek 2003-8-28 10:04:53 AM |
| #1 Problem is that the Hebrews could all leave Isreal and turn everything over to the Palestinians and with Yasser Arafat around, they would be living in shitholes twenty years from now. Odd fact though is that the US provides over 70% of the money for the Palestinian |
| Posted by: SOG475 2003-8-28 9:15:31 AM |