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| Dupe entry: 'IDF kills 30 Palestinian gunmen in Gaza |
| 2006-07-26 |
| Sounds like Hamas is trying Taliban tactics. Over 30 Palestinian gunmen were killed by IDF troops in the Gaza Strip by Wednesday morning, military sources revealed. The IDF's Givati brigade launched an operation in Sag'iya in the northern Gaza Strip late Tuesday night to root out terrorists. IAF aircraft fired missiles at Palestinian operatives on Wednesday, killing a number of Palestinians. The IDF said the troops fired at a group of gunmen who were spotted firing an RPG. A number of the dead Palestinians were Hamas members, spokesmen of the groups said. A girl believed to be younger than 10 was also among the dead, but doctors said they had not yet been able to identify her or give her exact age. At least 37 people were hurt, including 16 in critical condition, said Dr. Joma Saka, a spokesman for Gaza City's Shifa Hospital. About 50 IDF tanks moved back into northern Gaza overnight in a new operation titled "Samson's Pillars" - still part of Operation Summer Rains that was launched after the kidnapping of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit on June 25. Hamas said it destroyed three army vehicles. IAF aircraft carried out a total of eight air strikes in the area overnight, security and medics said. The army said forces were operating in northern Gaza as part of a campaign to stop terrorism and rocket barrages at Israel. The military said aircraft targeted three groups of gunmen who were approaching the troops. Early Wednesday, troops took over rooftops of several houses in northern Gaza, residents said, and Israeli aircraft blasted several houses of Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives after warning the people to leave. In another tactic, the Palestinian phone company said more than 1,000 residents of the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis received recorded messages from Israel, warning them not to hide weapons or shield terrorists. The residents were apparently picked at random, phone company officials said. The latest incursion came in response to the continued rocket fire from Gaza. Earlier on Tuesday, Palestinian terrorists fired a Kassam rocket at Israel from southern Gaza, moderately wounding a Thai worker in a western Negev community. The attack took place one month to the day of a daring Hamas cross-border attack on an Israeli military outpost near the border, in which two Israeli soldiers were killed and a third, 19-year-old Cpl. Gilad Shalit was abducted, an incident which set off the latest round of violence in the region. The morning rocket attack was unusual since most of the hundreds of Kassams lobbed at Israel over the last year following Israel's pullout from the densely populated coastal strip have been launched from southern Gaza. The rocket struck the residence of foreign workers in a border area moshav, which had not been previously hit by Palestinian rocket fire, but which had been in the news recently due to the outbreak of bird flu there. The name of the community was not released for security reasons. The Thai worker, who was apparently sleeping at the time of the attack, sustained shrapnel wounds to his upper body, police said. |
| Posted by:phil_b |
| #2 "Samson's Pillars" Attention getter. |
| Posted by: 6 2006-07-26 15:21 |
| #1 So, how's that cease-fire going? |
| Posted by: xbalanke 2006-07-26 08:58 |