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| IDF clears Gaza site used to fire Qassams |
| 2003-08-29 |
| Israel on Friday sent bulldozers and tanks into the Beit Hanoun area of the northern Gaza Strip to uproot swaths of farmland the military says is used as cover for cross-border rocket attacks, Palestinian witnesses and the military said. That followed an earlier push into Gaza late Thursday, shortly after one of the Qassam rockets fired by Palestinians struck near the coastal city of Ashkelon, the deepest hit yet into Israel. Early Friday, a military engineering corps drove four bulldozers into the edge of northern Gaza, and, under the protection of five battle tanks, cleared brush and orchards that the military says is used as cover for militants firing homemade rockets into Israel. Remember how the PA cops said they tried to catch the guys who fired the rockets yesterday? The military said that the force found the abandoned launcher that was used to fire Thursday’s rocket just 15 meters away from a Palestinian police post. Humm, must have been eating too many doughnuts. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #3 expect to see a whining story with the poor orchard owner crying about how his livelihood was done in by the Joooos....with increased range on the Qassams the IDF will just dig bigger and bigger dead zones of wideopen, unfarmable land...way to go Paleos! |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-8-29 4:46:59 PM |
| #2 Gaza Strip CSI "Detective Abdul,did you hear that?Sounded just like someone launched a rocket next door." "Relax,Officer Yassim,it was obviously some kids and their firecrackers.Nothing to worry about." |
| Posted by: Stephen 2003-8-29 4:39:46 PM |
| #1 Might as well clear out the PA cop shack, as it seems quite redundant. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-8-29 3:36:07 PM |