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| Israel strike targets power station |
| 2006-06-27 |
| ISRAEL has carried out an air strike on the main power station in the Gaza Strip, triggering a fire and plunging Gaza City into darkness, witnesses said. The attack follows similar raids that hit two bridges in the centre of the territory. Israeli tanks and troops have closed in on the area following the capture of an Israeli soldier in a Palestinian militant attack on Sunda |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #17 VitalPerspective is live blogging: " According to Israeli media, the IDF is calling this Operation Summer Rain". |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-06-27 23:15 |
| #16 Cut the water too. Force them out leave only a coridor to the west bank left open for them the the Gaza strip. It's over and it's not "the Jew's" fault. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-06-27 22:22 |
| #15 #1 & #4. Without electricity to pump water, I bet it's already cut off. And if they have sewer systems at all and if they use lift stations, things might get a whole lot smellier. |
| Posted by: GK 2006-06-27 22:06 |
| #14 Scooter - Excellent... I need to turn on the TV and have a virtual marshmellow roast. :) |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2006-06-27 20:42 |
| #13 Laurence, Fox indicated that the three "functioning" turbines and a gasoline reservoir were completely engulfed in flames; whatever passes for firefighters in paleo-land are unable to do anything but watch it all burn. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2006-06-27 20:38 |
| #12 I wonder how they like passing out their candy in the fucking dark. You mess with the bull, you get the horns. |
| Posted by: reality check 2006-06-27 20:28 |
| #11 Yes! I've been waiting to see some of this chit for months!! |
| Posted by: Chuger Creager2623 2006-06-27 20:26 |
| #10 Welcome to your beloved unelectrified caliphate, you moronic @ssholes. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-06-27 20:15 |
| #9 I hope they torched the power plant and didn't just disable it. Wreck the place and keep it wrecked. |
| Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2006-06-27 20:12 |
| #8 From an AP article: The attack raised the specter of a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, as water pumps in the strip are powered by electricity. I guess when your society is hanging by a thread, you should try to avoid provoking your well-armed neighbor, eh? |
| Posted by: WhiteCollarRedneck 2006-06-27 20:09 |
| #7 Yes. It's about 4 in the morning there, I believe. |
| Posted by: Scooter McGruder 2006-06-27 20:02 |
| #6 Have they taken the power out before? This seems like a more serious event than any I can remember. Goodness knows how long it will take the Paleos to get it back on... |
| Posted by: WhiteCollarRedneck 2006-06-27 20:01 |
| #5 Is it night over there now? I can never remember -- only that it used to take Mr. Wife about 18 hours to get there. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-06-27 19:40 |
| #4 I bet the water gets cut off. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2006-06-27 19:38 |
| #3 Mmmmmmm, 7th century living, just what every jihadi aspires to. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2006-06-27 19:38 |
| #2 Did it at night, when it's cooler too. |
| Posted by: lotp 2006-06-27 19:36 |
| #1 So now they're sitting in the dark -- no antisemitic cartoons for the children, no hate-filled rants for the adults, no news of the brave Lions of Islam heroically beating back the Zionist invaders... and the refrigerator won't remain cold for more than a few hours, even if the children don't keep opening the door to get a drink, and they haven't been able to get petrol to fuel the back-up generator for simply ages! Nonetheless, this isn't the threat to life that cutting off the water would be, which should keep the EU, Muslims, and other sympathizers quiet for a while... Good. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-06-27 19:34 |