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| Israelis Kill Hamas Militant | |
| 2005-12-21 | |
Tel Aviv, 21 Dec. (AKI) - Israeli troops on Wednesday killed a Hamas militant during a raid in the West Bank, Palestinian security sources told the Tel Aviv daily Haaretz. The killing happened during a skirmish between Palestinians fighters and Israeli troops who had entered the West Bank town of Jenin in an attempt to arrest a Hamas militant. The Israel army confirmed that it was carrying out an arrest operation in Jenin but did not provide further details.
"After the elections in the Authority we may find ourselves facing a terror offensive, therefore the IDF must be deployed and ready so that Israel is not surprised, and will know how to defend its citizens," Israeli defence minister, Shaul Mofaz was quoted as saying. Mofaz is expected to meet Wednesday with Egypt's intelligence chief General Omar Sulieman and ask him to pressure Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas to fight militant groups. | |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #9 Just one was it? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2005-12-21 16:02 |
| #8 Still awaiting the first official missile strike on a Palestinian CAR SWARM. Now that would make a great hit! |
| Posted by: The Happy Fliegerabwehrkanonen 2005-12-21 15:28 |
| #7 But it's still time for CAR SWARM. credit to LGF for that one.. |
| Posted by: macofromoc 2005-12-21 13:34 |
| #6 You've already run this story dozens of times this year!!! |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2005-12-21 13:21 |
| #5 UPDATE: JENIN, West Bank - A local leader of the radical Palestinian movement Hamas was shot dead on Wednesday by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Jenin, medical and military sources said. Medics said Zayed Mussa, 28, was killed in an exchange of fire while he was holed up in a house in the the northern city. The army said Mussa had opened fire at a special border police unit that had come to arrest him over his alleged involvement in the killing of a soldier, Staff Sergeant Jonathan Evron, early last month. A border policeman was lightly injured in the shooting and an army search dog killed, the military said. The operation in Jenin came after Israeli soldiers had also been involved in clashes that left eight Palestinians wounded in and around the largest northern city of Nablus. Soldiers rolled into the centre of Nablus at daybreak, as well as the neighbouring Balata refugee camp, where they came under attack from stone-throwing youths. The troops responded by firing rubber-coated bullets at the youths, wounding six in Nablus’s Old City neighbourhood. In Balata, two members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed offshoot of the ruling Fatah faction, were lightly wounded by Israeli gunfire, the sources added. |
| Posted by: Steve 2005-12-21 12:54 |
| #4 Isn't killing Hamas militants when spotted in the Israeli soldier's job description. Precisely 3dc. What is the big deal here? It's just another notch in that soldier's gun, and a brownie point on his next performance review. Yawn.... |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-12-21 12:14 |
| #3 Isn't killing Hamas militants when spotted in the Israeli soldier's job description. You know something that would come up when you get your performance review? I imagine that not killing Hamas militants would not improve your leverage in salary and promotion discussions. Maybe even put you in the feared bottom 10 percent for rating and ranking... |
| Posted by: 3dc 2005-12-21 10:31 |
| #2 I think the stipend for suicide bombers pretty much screwed the pooch. Abu Mazen can't control anyone, much less armed militants. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2005-12-21 10:08 |
| #1 ..and fear that the Palestinian Authority will not be able to control the situation. If the jerks can't control it now, what makes any rational person think that the PA can control things then?? Mofaz is expected to meet Wednesday with Egypt's intelligence chief General Omar Sulieman and ask him to pressure Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas to fight militant groups. Time to give up on this. He didn't do it before, he's not doing it now, and there's no reason to believe that he'll do it anytime soon. Faced with a choice between a civil war and doing something about terrorism, Mazen apparently would rather that Jewish civilians die before he would dare clean his own house. Fine. The Paleos had their chance, they blew it, so to use a tired old saying, it's time to "move on". All this nonsense about a Paleo state should be tossed onto an upper shelf to sit for a while. It can then be dusted off and re-evaluated in like say, another twenty five years at the very least. But for now, enough is enough. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-12-21 09:52 |