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| Paleo Roundup: Cause/Effect Strikes Gaza Metal Workshops again |
| 2004-07-04 |
| EFL Four killed in Mideast violence as Israeli gunships target Gaza workshops A Jewish settler and three Palestinians were shot dead in separate incidents of violence as Israeli helicopter gunships carried out a series of late-night raids on metal workshops in Gaza. late at night, to avoid civilian casualties...the moral difference between the two sides Palestinian security sources said the first airstrike targetted a metal workshop in the northern part of Gaza City, while a second missile hit another workshop in the south-eastern Zeitoun district, they said. A third missile was fired at a workshop in the Nusseirat refugee camp south of Gaza City. Nice that the refugees learn a trade...not a marketable one though... No casualties were reported from any of the strikes, but the workshops suffered heavy damage, the sources said. objective achieved An army spokesman said the air force had targetted weapons workshops in Zeitoun and in the Jabalya refugee camp just north of the city, but he had no information about the strike on Nusseirat camp. "The two workshops were used by the Hamas terrorist organisation and other terrorist organisations to produce a variety of weapons, notably Qassam rockets," he said. Earlier on Sunday, a Jewish settler and three Palestinians were shot dead in separate incidents of violence in the region. The settler was killed during the early morning when militants ambushed his car on a road near the Jewish settlements of Mevo Dotan and Shaked in the northern West Bank, an army spokesman said. Islamic Heroes™ The radical Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, an offshoot of Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for the attack in a call to AFP. offshoot? How about the left hand.. Further south, the army said troops had shot dead an armed Palestinian who was trying to infiltrate the Braha settlement near Nablus. The gunman also belonged to the Al Aqsa Brigades, the group told AFP, naming him as 35-year-old Sakher Ramadan. During the early evening, soldiers shot dead a young Palestinian stonethrower in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanun as troops pressed a week-long incursion into the area to prevent militants from firing rockets into Israel. good The 18-year-old youth, whose name was not given, was hit by a bullet in the neck and died in a nearby hospital, medical sources said. An Israeli military source said troops had fired towards one of the ringleaders of a "violent disturbance" in the area. And in Jerusalem, Israeli border guards shot dead a Palestinian they said was ferrying workers illegally into Israel in a stolen vehicle. Israeli police said Mohammed Nasser al-Shawaheen, 27, was shot after refusing an order to stop. He was carrying around a dozen illegal workers in his vehicle at the time. |
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| Posted by: big dave 2004-07-04 7:10:50 PM |