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| Five Kassams land near Sderot |
| 2007-10-27 |
| Five Kassam rockets fired from the Gaza Strip on Friday evening landed in open fields south of Ashkelon and near Sderot. No one was wounded in the attack. A fire sparked by one of the rockets in a Sderot textile factory was extinguished. The Islamic Jihad group claimed responsibility for the attacks. These attacks came a day after Defense Minister Ehud Barak planned to cut electricity for an initial 15 minutes after each rocket attack, gradually increasing the length of outages if the attacks continue, although no such cut was reported after Friday's barrage. Earlier on Friday, a missile fired by an IAF aircraft killed a Hamas operative and seriously wounded another during an IDF operation in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said. Hamas said the gunmen were attacked from the air near Gaza City. The army said the gunmen were approaching IDF troops operating near the Gaza-Israel border when the aircraft opened fire. Also Friday morning, a Kassam rocket fired from Gaza landed in the western Negev. No one was wounded and no damage was reported. The IDF has been recently carrying out regular operations against Gaza terrorists in an effort to stop Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israel. Also Friday morning, the IDF reported that six Palestinians had been arrested in the Nablus area on suspicion of involvement in a shooting rampage in Samaria in which a soldier and a civilian were wounded. The Palestinian Maan news agency said that among the detainees were three brothers, all Fatah operatives. Wednesday's attack began at the Ariel junction, where terrorists sprayed a hitchhiking post with bullets from 100 to 150 meters away before speeding down a busy road while firing at passing cars. Overnight Thursday, the IDF killed three Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip. In the northern part of the Strip, a force from the Golani Infantry Brigade spotted a group of gunmen. Two members of the group were killed in the exchange of fire. Two IDF soldiers were lightly hurt in the violence, and were taken to Soroka Hospital in Beersheba for treatment. In the southern part of the Gaza Strip, a unit of reserve troops shot and killed an Islamic Jihad gunman. There were no casualties among the reservists. Meanwhile, two Kassam rockets were fired overnight Thursday; both landed in open fields, inflicting no injuries or damage. Overall, IDF troops arrested 14 Palestinian terror suspects in the West Bank. Nine of the suspects were nabbed in Nablus, the military said in a statement. The others were caught in Ramallah and in Jenin All the detainees were transferred for interrogation. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 For some reason I had several when we moved there. I didn't come back with any, though, 'cause I do learn eventually. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-10-27 21:19 |
| #3 Several? That's worrisome. |
| Posted by: Thomas Woof 2007-10-27 12:40 |
| #2 I've had several irons literally burst into flame when they got too much power. (American 120V plugged through a simple transformer to German 240 (?) voltage.) It could indeed prove amusing, as Thomas suggests. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-10-27 11:55 |
| #1 Ummm... Kassams.... supposed to be 15 minutes a pop of no Willie Wired Hand. Ima wonder if instead of turning off the current the Jooooooooooooooos might vary it. That would be might fun times. |
| Posted by: Thomas Woof 2007-10-27 05:10 |