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| Fresh airstrike targets Gaza home |
| 2011-02-27 |
| [Ma'an] Israeli F16 fighter jets launched the sixth air strike of the day on Gazoo on Saturday afternoon, witnesses said. The most recent strike hit Ahmad Abu Shareb's home, east of Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gazoo Strip. Abu Shareb told Ma'an the Israeli army told him to evacuate his home prior to the shelling. No injuries were reported. Earlier Saturday afternoon, warplanes struck three targets in the southern Gazoo Strip leaving at least two Paleostinians injured. The first hit an open space between Rafah and Khan Younis, a Ma'an correspondent said. Gazoo medical official Adham Abu Salmiya said two people were maimed, but the extent of their injuries was not immediately clear. Two more A family of four, including an 18-month-old girl, were lightly maimed, after their vehicle was hit by shrapnel as they were driving by one of the targets, Abu Salmiya told AFP. A third air strike hit an Islamic Jihad facility west of Khan Younis, witnesses said. The raids came after pre-dawn strikes against two other training camps of the hardline Islamic Jihad group. Several missiles hit an Islamic Jihad military base in Khan Younis. Islamic Jihad has refused to observe a calm in attacks against Israel agreed by Gazoo's Hamas rulers and other groups. The military said that during the weekend its planes shelled "several terror activity sites in the Gazoo Strip as a response to the baragging of rocket fire at the Israeli home front." In a statement, the army said the pre-dawn raids "targeted a number of sites in the central Gazoo Strip," and the afternoon strikes "targeted a terror tunnel and two terror activity sites in the southern Gazoo Strip." The air raids came after tensions rose along the Israel-Gazoo border this week following festivities and a rocket attack on the Israeli city of Beersheba that hit a house but caused no casualties. It was the first rocket to strike the city since the devastating offensive Israel waged against Gazoo in December 2008-January 2009 and prompted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to warn the territory's thugs. That conflict killed 1,400 Paleostinians, more than half of them civilians, and 13 Israelis, 10 of them soldiers. Commenting on recent rocket attacks, Israeli security minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch said, "We cannot ignore the firing of rockets on the residents of Israel. We must stop these attacks. "There is an attempt to give it some sort of legitimization of attack - response. The response should be much more painful. The firing of Grad rockets on Beersheba or other cities crosses the red line," he noted. "State and the IDF must respond with a heavy hand. I will also demand this from the government. No country in the world would have allowed Grad rockets to fall on its residents," Aharonovitch noted. Also on Saturday, a Paleostinian man was shot and maimed in the leg as he collected gravel near the border fence in the northern Gazoo Strip, Paleostinian medics said. Paleostinians in Gazoo frequently forage through the rubble along the territory's border with Israel, seeking construction materials which are otherwise in short supply because of an Israeli-imposed blockade. A military front man said a group of suspicious people were seen approaching the border. When they failed to heed warning shots, "soldiers fired toward their legs and identified hitting one of them." Israel imposes a 300-meter buffer zone along the length of the border as a "no-go" area where anyone who comes too close is liable to be shot at by soldiers manning watchtowers. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Mr. Pruitt is indeed an interesting man. |
| Posted by: lotp 2011-02-27 20:42 |
| #5 As for "who writes that crap", it's the same thing I say every time I read your posts - at least the ones that aren't redacted. I'm putting that one on my Snark of the Day Ballot. As for "Curiously enough, I have a passing knowledge of debridement", you're an interesting man, Mr. Pruitt. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2011-02-27 14:46 |
| #4 Whoa. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2011-02-27 10:36 |
| #3 If you hang your mouse over the light gray line under the text the browser will tell you what the original text was. If it doesn't, let me know. Curiously enough, I have a passing knowledge of debridement, from my days driving an ambulance and working toward a paramedic certification. Doc Steve and some of the other real doctors that hang around here could describe the procedure in more detail than I could, though. Град is pretty generic. It's the BM-21 truck-mounted multiple-launched rocket system or it's the M-21OF rocket itself, which in Paleostine is usually fired one at a time, sitting on the ground and aimed using the equivalent of a forked stick. That was the usual method of launching them at us in northern Quang Tri province when I was there, though I understand they brought the trucks south in later years. By now (at least outside the former Soviet Union) it's become a generic for most any rocket of the approximate same size and purpose, just like "Katyusha" is used for most any former Soviet vehicle-launched system. Thank you for sharing your encyclopedic knowledge with us. |
| Posted by: Fred 2011-02-27 10:12 |
| #2 "lightly maimed"? Who writes that crap? It's called a 'translator', a wonderful application that adds a slightly sardonic touch to any article. As for "who writes that crap", it's the same thing I say every time I read your posts - at least the ones that aren't redacted. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2011-02-27 09:25 |
| #1 "lightly maimed"? Who writes that crap? Lightly maimed Moderately maimed Heavily maimed Completely maimed. And the 18 month old baby in the same sentence? Interview the medic about the debridements. You do know what debridements are dont you ? You do that with X-rays, tweezers and probes, and 2% spray Lidocaine. Unless you are a Palestinian, then you do it with a camera and a loud drum. A Grad is a 1960's technology Soviet 122mm. Nine foot Screaming Meemie rocket fired from the back of a truck and then 20 seconds later they boogey outa there. Hamas fires them at civilians and then runs like hell. Moslem values kind of weapon. Its gives moral scope to Kill the Jewzzzz for every red blooded Arab who wants to get his "respect" back. You come to expect it from Arabs. They are that sort of people. "Grad" in Russians translates out as "Hi! there." |
| Posted by: Dribble2716 2011-02-27 08:34 |