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| Israel-Palestine |
| Calm shattered after West Bank raid |
| 2005-08-26 |
| The relative calm that accompanied the Israeli evacuation of the Gaza Strip outlasted the operation by barely 48 hours, as militants yesterday fired a rocket into southern Israel in retaliation for an overnight army raid in the West Bank in which five Palestinians were killed. In Gaza, the Popular Resistance Committees claimed responsibility for firing a home-made rocket that fell near the town of Sderot. A statement said the attack was in retaliation for the "Tulkarem massacre", a reference to the West Bank deaths that Palestinians said included those of three teenaged bystanders. Shooting broke out after Israeli commandos surrounded a coffee shop in the Tulkarem refugee camp late on Wednesday to capture wanted Islamic Jihad militants. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 When was there ever any "calm" I don't forsee any either in the future |
| Posted by: Jan 2005-08-26 20:51 |