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| 2004-03-07 |
| Armoured Israeli forces have raided two Gaza refugee camps and have killed 14 Palestinians during gunbattles after militants staged an audacious attack on Israeli soldiers at Gaza’s border. Palestinian medics said half the dead were civilians, including three boys. Who were throwing petrol bombs. See below. The rest were militants, some from Hamas which has killed scores of Israelis in suicide bombings and other attacks in a Palestinian revolt that erupted in 2000. Dozens of armoured vehicles joined the sweep on Sunday for militants in the teeming Nusseirat and al-Bureij camps in the central Gaza Strip. Tanks and troops backed by helicopters fought militants armed with assault rifles and rocket launchers. Medics said the dead included boys of 14, 12 and eight. At least 72 Palestinians were wounded, many of them teenagers who were throwing stones and petrol bombs at armoured vehicles. "Soldiers blasted their way into our housing block at 4 a.m.," said Mahmoud Abu Hujair, a father of three. "They turned our roof into a base to battle gunmen. Women and children were screaming. The building was heavily damaged." Mmm! I presume that is a result of people firing at the building. Israeli forces withdrew mid-morning, around five hours after sweeping in under cover of darkness. Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie’s cabinet denounced the raids as "state terror against our people" which undermined Palestinian calls for a mutual ceasefire and revival of a U.S.-backed "road map" peace plan. They still haven’t figured out that actions not talk are now required. An Israeli army spokesman said the raids were "pinpoint" pre-emptive strikes against "terror groups" who had been escalating gun, mortar and rocket attacks on Jewish settlements in Gaza and border areas. Israel blames the peacemaking impasse on the Palestinian Authority’s failure to subdue militants opposed to the road map. The peace plan envisages a Palestinian state co-existing with Israel on land seized by the Jewish state in the 1967 Middle East war. And which had been previously siezed by Jordan and Egypt which is of course not mentioned. |
| Posted by:phil_b |
| #3 Read the SAME Reuters post at the Khaleej Times. Amazing how they 'edited' the news. http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2004/March/middleeast_March157.xml§ion=middleeast |
| Posted by: sanwin25 2004-3-7 10:57:20 AM |
| #2 They still haven’t figured out that actions not talk are now required. They've figured it out Phil, it's just that they won't and can't do anything about it. The terrorists have grown to strong thanks to Arafish. To bring down the terrorists will be the same as bringing down the PA. Each depends on the other to watch eachothers back. |
| Posted by: Charles 2004-3-7 10:53:13 AM |
| #1 Wonder what that was all about.... yesterdays incident was a clear IDF win. Perhaps they are sending a message about the methods that were tried out. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-3-7 9:55:58 AM |