Israel Kills 8 In Airstrike On Gaza Police Station
Remains of Gaza Police Station
Haaretz:
Eight Hamas members were killed Tuesday when an Israel Air Force missile struck a Hamas police headquarters in the southern Gaza Strip, the Islamist group said.
According to the sources, several police officers were hurt and the post was heavily damaged.
The Israel Defense Forces confirmed the air strike, east of the town of Khan Yunis, in response to Qassam rockets fired from Gaza into southern Israel Tuesday morning.
According to Hamas, several people were hurt in the IAF strike, some of them seriously.
Earlier Tuesday, Israel Defense Forces troops killed two Palestinian gunmen from the Hamas movement near the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
The incidents occurred after a Hamas source said the group’s armed wing had claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed a woman and wounded 11 other people in the southern town of Dimona on Monday.
An IDF spokeswoman confirmed the clashes near Rafah, saying: “Troops spotted two suspicious men approaching them and identified hitting them.”
IDF troops frequently carry out raids in the Gaza Strip to hunt militants launching rockets at Israel.
Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip in June after routing secular Fatah forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
The attack in Dimona was the first time Hamas’ armed wing had claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing inside Israel since August 2004, when 16 people were killed and 100 wounded in explosions on two buses in the southern Israeli city of Be’er Sheva.
Qassams strike two Sderot factories
Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday fired two Qassam rockets at western Israel, striking two factories in the industrial area of the southern city of Sderot.
Militants of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement and another faction, the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), claimed responsibility for firing the rockets.
The rockets struck in and near two factories in an industrial zone on Sderot’s outskirts, with one penetrating an asbestos roof and the other a container with diesel which did not explode, Israel Radio reported.
Several people were treated for shock and vehicles near the scene sustained damage from the strike.
In a statement faxed to the media, the PRC and Fatah armed wing said the rocket-fire was in response to the killing of Amer Qarmout, a senior PRC commander, in an Israel Air Force strike on Monday.
Also on Tuesday, Palestinians opened fire on farmers working in the fields of Kibbutz Nir Oz, near the Gaza Strip. There were no injuries, but some farm equipment was damaged.
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Not enough. Gotta kill many more of them. Flatten the place. Turn it into a strip mall or a gunnery range. Quit playing whack-a-mole with these terrorist scum. Kill them.
February 5th, 2008 at 4:03 pmYou die when you don’t want to talk and act like a human being.
February 5th, 2008 at 7:06 pmThese scum bags are always holding the Palestians hostage.
There will be no peace till they are all dead.
Kill ‘em all, let god sort em out. Once a tee shirt, now reality. Feel free to substitute allah if required
February 6th, 2008 at 2:14 am