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| IDF patrol comes under grenade attack in Gaza |
| 2003-07-07 |
| JPost - Reg Req'd Today's Roadmap/ceasefire violations An Israeli armored patrol came under a fierce grenade attack in Gaza just minutes ago, a military source told The Jerusalem Post. "A total of 11 grenades were hurled at one of our mobile patrols in the area of Rafah on the Israel-Egyptian border," the source said. "The IDF force, consisting of an elite Beduin unit, did not return fire because they wanted to avoid civilian casualties," the source said. No Israeli casualties were reported in the attack. IDF units in the Rafah border fence area in Gaza have come under frequent attack in the past few days with Palestinian terrorists breaking the US sponsored and PA backed road map cease-fire with anti-tank rockets, grenades and automatic weapons fire. "wanted to avoid civilian casualties" - well, we know which side he's talking about without them being identified - and that is the difference between them |
| Posted by:Frank G |