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| Human shields around threatened Hamas activist's house in Gaza City |
| 2006-11-21 |
| (KUNA) -- Hundreds of Palestinians gathered around and at the home of a Hamas activist in Gaza city, after he was threatened to be bombed by Israeli warplanes, said eyewitnesses on Monday. "The Israeli occupation army told the Hamas activist, Jamal Sayam, over the phone that they intended to bomb his house tonight," said the eyewitnesses. According to local Gaza radio, the Israeli army gave Sayam 10 minutes to evacuate his house before Israeli rockets hit it. Mosques called through speakers for Gaza city's residents to protect the house in Zaitona district, they said, noting that hundreds of Palestinians formed a "human shield" at and around the house. Leaders of different Palestinian factions participated in the protest, insisting they would not leave the house as long as the Israeli threat continued. A similar protest took place earlier today Beit Lahai to protect the house of Palestinian Interior Ministry leader, Wael Rajab, who also received a threat from Israeli forces. Meanwhile, Hamas' military wing announced launching today a rocket at an Israeli military location East of Jahar Al-Deik village in mid Gaza Strip. The operation had come in retaliation to Israeli aggression against Palestinian people, said a statement by the Hamas' brigades. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #11 I'll bet the human shields never saw the Hamas target being whisked away to safety. Bet the leaders didn't pop their faces into the media scrum until long after the drop time had passed without attack. |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-11-21 19:27 |
| #10 Per Frank's suggestion, let these idjits respond to a given call-ahead only to watch another location within line-of-sight get demolished. Preferrably close enough to where some of the gathering gets hit with shrapnel or debris. Make them understand that such actions are futile and hazardous to their health. Goodness knows that there's no shortage of close proximity target pairs. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-11-21 14:44 |
| #9 This is just plain nuts! Israel: knock off the phone calls and just start bouncing the rubble. Make some if there isn't any where you need it; quit phuqueing around with these sand apes. Either that, or as previously posted, start calling everybody; i am pretty sure there are some out of work campaign workers here in the States that know how to work a phone tree for you. |
| Posted by: USN, ret. 2006-11-21 14:20 |
| #8 I would if I were the IDF. Call every half hour with a new location to bomb. After a few days with no REM sleep because of all the hollering over the loudspeakers, residents will tell them to knock it off. And then the fun can begin again. Do you think a Hamas operative will stay put if he gets a call, even if his |
| Posted by: gorb 2006-11-21 14:00 |
| #7 If this is going to be the Palestinian response with Israel backing down for fear of killing human shields, then Israel should make it a point to start making multiple calls, prank calls if you will, warning of imminent destruction. |
| Posted by: danking_70 2006-11-21 13:20 |
| #6 Blow it up, then blow up something else. The Paleos need to get accustomed the big bangs. |
| Posted by: Sneaze Shaiting3550 2006-11-21 13:14 |
| #5 If they want to be meat shields, let them get hit. Harboring and protecting terrs makes them part of them, and not civilians. |
| Posted by: Thoth 2006-11-21 09:28 |
| #4 Something doesn't quite ring true, if you had a military strike underway 10mins just doesn't work. Prob just the paleo hysteria machine in action. On the other hand all those terro wanabees in one place would make a damned tempting target to some IAF leftenant. |
| Posted by: pihkalbadger 2006-11-21 08:18 |
| #3 The Jews should put a human shield around their kindergartens and pizza parlors - I'm sure that would prevent the attacks by Hamas. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2006-11-21 07:23 |
| #2 Or I guess it could be bored Israeli high school home alone. More fun than ordering someone 12 anchovy pizzas. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2006-11-21 07:17 |
| #1 The IDF is exercising the pali friends. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2006-11-21 07:14 |