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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Air strike kills Hamas leader
2009-01-03
AN Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip killed a senior commander of Hamas's armed wing, the Islamist group said today. A week after Israel launched devastating air strikes against the Palestinian enclave with the declared aim of ending Hamas rocket attacks on its southern towns, an end to hostilities remains elusive despite international diplomatic efforts.

The overnight air strike in Gaza killed Abu Zakaria al-Jamal, a senior leader of Hamas's armed wing, the Islamist group said. The Israeli army said only that it carried out a series of air attacks throughout the night.

On Thursday, an Israeli air strike killed another Hamas leader, Nizar Rayyan. Most of Hamas's top officials have gone into hiding, anticipating assassination attempts by Israel.
Posted by:tipper

#9  "[...]was in charge of rocket launching cells."


Terrorist or non-terrorist, middle management always gets the ax.
Posted by: Poison Reverse   2009-01-03 13:32  

#8  Verlaine, that's classic! Will have to keep it in mind for the next time....
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie   2009-01-03 12:35  

#7  any word on ducks or unicorns killed
Posted by: macofromoc   2009-01-03 12:01  

#6  Cornsilk - Pizza IDF, perhaps my favorite website for in the weird, cool, only-in-the-internet-era category.

I still laugh when I recall the comment left there by one pizza donor (this must have been sometime during the first Dubya administration): "consider these pizzas a small down payment compensating for the behavior of Colin Powell". Hilarious.

Generally though the comments there are of the nice but strictly serious variety ("the Rothstein family sends its prayers for your safety and thanks for defending us all" blah blah blah).
Posted by: Verlaine   2009-01-03 11:49  

#5  I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm getting itchy for the ground game in Gaza. Sounds like Hamas is going to try to stand and fight as soldiers. What a glorious destruction that would.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon   2009-01-03 11:47  

#4  Cell phones... why do they hate us? Wahahhaha
Posted by: Besoeker   2009-01-03 09:58  

#3  from a comment at AOSHQ, apparently from Ynet:

Abu Zakaria Al-Jamal's house was bombed in one of the airstrikes. According to the IDF, his job was to direct the firing of rockets and was in charge of rocket launching cells.

The house of Ismail Ghanem, a member of Hamas' military wing, was bombed in the town of Beit Lahiya. According to the IDF, Ghanem is one of the main people responsible for the firing of Grad rockets at Israel.

The IAF also bombed the house of Izz al-Din Haddad, head of Hamas' military wing in the eastern part of Gaza city, and the car of a Hamas activist who according to the IDF was unloading weapons from his car to a Gaza storehouse. Navy forces attacked Hamas posts, training camps and rocket launching pads.
Posted by: Frank G   2009-01-03 09:56  

#2  The pizza IDF site is working.

Enjoy, ladies and gentlemen! ;)

(And for the usual trolls that will check this thread out later....you could send one to a family in Sderot who is caught in the middle of all this if you were serious about "peace".....just a thought.)
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie   2009-01-03 09:14  

#1  poke your pointed lil head up and it gets whacked. Make it a macro, IAF!
Posted by: Frank G   2009-01-03 08:46  

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