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| Hamas controller - or somebody - a goner in Tubas... |
| 2002-08-31 |
| At least one Palestinian resistance activist was killed and other civilians were injured Saturday afternoon when Israeli apache helicopter gunship attacked a passenger car at a village of Tubas in the northern West Bank. Palestinian sources said two Israeli apache helicopters fired hell-fire missiles at a car in which Anwar Daraghmeh, a local Hamas resistance activist, was traveling, killing him and reducing the car to charred, twisted metal. Daraghmeh was incinerated in the bombing and mutilated beyond recognition. We think of it as an "assisted suicide bombing"... Several people who were standing nearby were also injured by flying shrapnel. A different version from Ha'aretz: At least five people, including two children, were killed Saturday in an IDF airstrike 20 kilometers south of the West Bank city of Jenin. Jihad Sauafta, a 27-year-old activist from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, was seriously injured. Witnesses said the Apache helicopters struck outside Tubas in the afternoon, obliterating a vehicle and three of its occupants. Another missile struck a nearby house, killing a nine-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl and wounding seven other people. One of those killed in the car was identified as Rafat Daraghmeh, a member of the Al-Aqsa Brigades sought by Israel. The two others were teenagers. I'm confused. Were Jihad and Rafat sharing a ride? Or were these two separate strikes? Or was Jihad one of the people standing around who were injured? Does that mean you can't blow a car up in Paleostine without hitting a terrorist? And was Rafat an al-Aqsa goon moonlighting as a Hamas thug, or a Hamas snuffy moonlighting as an al-Aqsa gunny? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |