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| IDF shoots unarmed Palestinian swimming in from Gaza |
| 2015-09-03 |
| [IsraelTimes] Man hit in the leg after ignoring navy's warning shots; motive for attempted infiltration unknown IDF soldiers on Wednesday shot and injured a Paleostinian man as he tried to swim from the Gazoo Strip into Israeli territory. A navy patrol boat intercepted the unarmed swimmer as he crossed a security barrier in the sea in the area of Zikim beach, close to the border with Gazoo. Soldiers called on the man to halt and fired shots into the air, shooting him in the leg after he ignored the warnings. The man was taken to Barzilai Medical Center for treatment. His purpose for trying to cross into Israel was unknown. In the past, Paleostinians from the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-controlled Gazoo Strip have attempted to cross into Israeli to carry out attacks. During the 2014 summer war, when the IDF battled Paleostinian forces in the Gazoo Strip, Hamas attempted to launch an attack on Israeli territory by sea. During one infiltration from the sea on July 8, Hamas frogmen succeeded in reaching the shore and engaging IDF forces in Zikim, which lies a kilometer north of the Gazoo-Israel border. Four Hamas divers were ultimately killed in the attempt. A later leaked video revealed that one of the Hamas commandos had attached a bomb to a tank. It went kaboom!without causing damage. Last month, four senior Hamas naval commandos who were heading overseas -- apparently to Iran -- for training were kidnapped on a bus traveling from Rafah to Cairo airport. In Gazoo, it is believed that the four were intercepted by Egyptian intelligence operatives. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Do it next time too. |
| Posted by: newc 2015-09-03 22:04 |
| #3 If you are in terrorist infested waters, and everyone hates you for being Israeli or Jew, do not push your luck. You are no victim. |
| Posted by: newc 2015-09-03 22:04 |
| #2 Maybe there is a lesson in this. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-09-03 10:43 |
| #1 I bet he was training for next year's Olympics in Rio... |
| Posted by: Raj 2015-09-03 10:40 |