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| Middle East |
| Israeli Army Invades the West Bank, Bombs Gaza |
| 2002-06-20 |
| The Israeli army has launched what is expected to be a long-term invasion of the West Bank. Meanwhile, Israeli planes fired missiles at targets in the Gaza City and in the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis. Israeli forces moved into Bethlehem and a nearby refugee camp, taking up "strategic positions" in the area and declaring a curfew. The Israeli military also moved into a suburb of Ramallah. There is no word on how long the Israeli forces will remain in the two areas, but a statement from the Israeli military says they will stay until their mission is accomplished. And the Paleostinians are just so surprised. Why, oh why, would the mean old Israelis do such a thing? A couple mass murders is obviously just a pretense. It has to be because... because they don't like Paleostinians... Just hours after the latest strike targeting Israelis in Jerusalem, Israeli infantry units backed by armored vehicles assaulted the Palestinian-controlled West Bank town of Bethlehem and the outskirts of Ramallah. Israeli troops backed by some 60 tanks and armored troop carriers and overflying helicopters, moved into Bethlehem from several directions, and took up positions in the center of the town near the Church of the Nativity and Dheisheh refugee camp. Some 20 tanks and armored personnel carriers entered the town of Bitunyia, on the southeastern edge of Ramallah, which is where Arafat's headquarters are located, security sources said. The units then took up positions in an abandoned building in Beitunia near the West Bank city. Some sporadic gunfire could be heard in the city, but Israeli army radio claimed that invading troops met no resistance. That's because Paleostinian "fighters" are better at bombing buses than they are at fighting real soldiers... Immediately after Tuesday’s bombings, Israeli forces attacked and invaded Jenin, Hebron and Qalqiliya and bombed residential areas, wounding several people. In Jenin, hundreds of Palestinian men and boys were arrested and taken to be questioned to Israeli military camps. Reporters say that Jenin refugee camps is almost completely empty of all the men following the Israeli raid. Did they round them all up? Or are they out shooting guns in the IDF's general direction? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |