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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
IAF strikes Gaza terror cell; 2 hard boyz killed
2012-09-20
As Ace would say, they were killed by a combination of a drone-zap and the heartbreak of psoriasis, but mostly by a drone-zap...
The Israel Air Force struck a Palestinian terror cell in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday night, killing two Palestinians and critically wounding a third according to medics in Gaza. The aircraft registered direct hits on their targets. The raid was initiated with the coordination of Israel's Shin Bet.

One of the Palestinians killed in the attack was Anis Mamoud Abu al Enin from Rafah, a member of the "Al-Aqsa Defenders," which the IDF says is sponsored by Hamas. According to the IDF, Enin planned to carry out a suicide attack in Israel, and was in the final stages of preparation. He had also previously been involved in other terrorist activity, including weapons and explosives smuggling via the Israel-Egypt border, as well as "directing certain terror activity" in the West Bank, according to the IDF.
Anis wanted to die, and he did. I guess everyone should be happy!
Ashraf Mahmoud Salah was also confirmed killed by the IDF. Born in 1979 in Rafah, Salah was a member of the Popular Resistance Committees and had admitted in the past to involvement in aiding two terrorists to reach Egypt in order to carry out suicide attacks in Israel, as well as involvement in weapons trafficking.

Hamas and Palestinian hospital officials confirmed the attack, saying a raid after darkness fell in the town of Rafah on Gaza's border with Egypt, killing two officials responsible for overseeing tunnels used to import goods from Egypt.

In a statement, Hamas said "Israel has assassinated three of our officers as they were doing their duty in protecting the security of our people." After initially saying three had been killed, Hamas later corrected the death toll to two and said the third man had been critically wounded.
The old sucking chest wound...
The IAF last struck Gaza earlier this month, thwarting two attempted attacks against Israel in a 12-hour period and killing six Palestinians in the process. Palestinians fired two Grad rockets into Israel after the strike, damaging two buildings in Netivot and lightly injuring seven civilians.
Posted by:Steve White

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