They sez Joooos, Joooos point and laugh...
BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip - A blast flattened the house of a militant commander in the Gaza Strip Thursday, killing four people, wounding 40 and burying an unknown number of others, Palestinian officials said.
Sounds like someone's private stash went up in smoke...
Israel, which routinely accepts responsibility for attacks on military targets, denied involvement. But Hamas said the blast was caused by an Israeli airstrike and responded with a heavy barrage of rockets and mortar shells into southern Israel, wounding an Israeli woman.
Damn! We look like fools again! To the mortars!
Israel's denial raised the possibility that the blast was caused by explosives meant for use against Israel that went off prematurely.
Yes. The "possibility"...
Ambulances rushed to the scene and residents of nearby homes brought shovels and bulldozers to help dig people from the rubble. Three people covered in blood were carried out on stretchers and hurried into ambulances that sped them away to the local hospital. It was not clear whether the Hamas commander, Ahmed Hamouda, was inside the two-story house at the time of the explosion.
But let's keep thinking the good thoughts...
Cars parked nearby were destroyed and covered with dust, and windows of neighboring houses and shops were shattered by the impact of the blast. Electricians were on the scene trying to disable live wires in the house, which had been reduced to a pile of debris. Hamas security officials pushed back a screaming mob of hundreds to keep them from disrupting the rescue efforts.
Move it along...Nuthin to see here but a smoking hole and a bunch of dead people. We see it every day. Move it along...
"It was a huge explosion," said Majid Abu Samra, a local resident. "The house was destroyed, and there are people still buried under the rubble. I evacuated two women who were covered in dust and blood." Dr. Moaiya Hassanain of the Gaza Health Ministry said an infant girl, a teenage boy and a man were killed. The man's identity was not immediately known because the body was burned so extensively.
Dad, can we watch you wire up the new missiles?
Well....okay.
Maj. Avital Leibovich, an Israeli army spokeswoman, said the military was not operating in the area at the time. "We deny any connection to this incident," she said.
...as much as we would like to.
Hamas insisted that Israel was to blame even after it denied involvement."This heinous massacre reflects the ugly face of the Zionist Nazi occupation," said Abdel Latif Qanou, a Hamas spokesman.
Harrrrumph Harrrrumph Harrrrumph...