Israelis Retaliate For Sderot Bombings Killing A Dozen
Unfortunately one of those dead was a baby…Damn that sucks. I don’t like babies getting killed. But who’s fault is it anyway? I believe Hamas has been raining down qassam rockets on the innocent civilians of Sderot for God only knows how long and then these Hamas puke piglets scatter and fall inamongst their women and children.
Fuck you, Hamas. YOU bear the responsibility for this shit. The Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri had the fucking gall to say that Hamas has reserved the right “to respond by all means available.”
Respond? I believe you were the one being responded to…fucking backwoods ingrate piglets.
Time for a ham roast!
Free beer to the first person that can come up with thatquote, you know, the one about if they loved their children more than whatever, bla blah blah…
Eleven Palestinians, including a six-month-old baby, were killed in Israeli attacks on Wednesday while Palestinian rockets killed an Israeli in a sharp escalation of violence.
Following a day of unrest, Israeli helicopters launched a night raid on the Hamas interior ministry in Gaza, firing three missiles and seriously damaging the five-story building, witnesses said.
According to a hospital source, the baby was killed in the attack, with witnesses reporting damage to houses surrounding the ministry and at least 20 other casualties.
The deadliest attack occurred earlier in the day in the southern Gaza town of Khan Yunis where five Hamas fighters were killed in an Israeli army raid which also wounded one person, medical sources told AFP.
A second raid on the same site moments later injured another three people.
Hamas then claimed responsibility for what was the first killing of an Israeli by Gaza rocket fire since May 2007 — before the movement seized power in Gaza in June — saying it had been to avenge the death of its militants.
Israel in turn launched further deadly air strikes following the Israeli fatality caused by a rocket that slammed into a college on the outskirts of the southern Israeli town of Sderot.
Some 50 rockets were fired from Gaza including one that exploded in a hospital parking lot just outside Ashkelon without wounding anyone, the army said.
“The attacks by Hamas against Israeli civilians from areas in which Palestinian civilians live is a crime against humanity that affects Israelis as well as Palestinians,” Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Arye Mekel said.
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak visited the scene of the Israeli casualty later at night, a government statement said. National radio said Barak warned during his visit that the pounding would now intensify.
Two Palestinians, whose identities were not immediately known, were killed in an afternoon air strike on a Gaza City neighbourhood from which rockets had just been fired, witnesses said.
Another air strike just after nightfall near a petrol station north of Gaza City killed another two Palestinians and wounded 12 others.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said the strike had targeted a group about to launch rockets.
In the West Bank, undercover Israeli troops shot dead an 11th Palestinian, a militant, during an arrest raid in the town of Nablus, security and medical sources said.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, on a visit to Japan, vowed to continue operations in Gaza, where Hamas seized power in June after routing forces loyal to Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.
“Hamas must bear responsibility for its actions,” Olmert told reporters in Tokyo.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri warned that the Islamic movement reserved the right “to respond by all means available” to what he called Israel’s “grave escalation” of the conflict.
Another militant from the armed wing of the radical Islamic Jihad movement was killed the previous night in an air strike in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, Palestinian medical sources said.
The deaths brought to around 211 the number of people killed since Israel and the Palestinians resumed peace talks in November, most of them Gaza militants, according to an AFP count.
Britain called for a halt to the violence and expressed condolences for the Israeli killed in the rocket attack.
“We unreservedly condemn today’s barrage of rockets on southern Israel that has left one man dead and several others injured,” British minister for the Middle East Kim Howells said in a statement.
“I hope that Israel will show restraint in the face of these attacks,” he added.
The violence came a day after a top UN official urged Israel, Egypt and the Palestinians to develop a new strategy to secure the lifting of Israel’s punishing blockade of Gaza and an end to rocket fire.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, meanwhile, is to visit Israel and the Palestinian territories on a trip starting March 3, State Department spokesman Tom Casey told reporters in Washington on Wednesday.
(AP)
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I hate seeing babies get killed also, but if hamas and hezbullah are in amongst them that makes the location a legitimate target.
There has got to be an up rising (even if small) within the civilian population or quite simply they support their presence amongst them. That makes the location a legitimate target.
February 27th, 2008 at 5:00 pmUntil the Palestinians denounce the fools that pretend to represent them and govern them, they will reap the rewards of their children being killed. And that is a shame for the babies. Right now the babies do not know any better.
February 27th, 2008 at 5:17 pmHamas is eating their own.
Hamas, are these the ones who love thier children so much they strap bombs on them a send them off to blow themselves up in Isreali theaters and coffee shops?!!!!
I’d love to know thier reaction when the open thier eyes and find themselves standing at the gates of hell, Satan smileing ,saying welcome home my good and faithful servant.
February 27th, 2008 at 5:19 pmHey Bash, that was the 4th Prime Minister of Israel, Golda Meir who said “The Arabs will stop fighting us when they love their children more than they hate Jews.” She was known as the “Iron Lady” (of Israeli Politics).
February 27th, 2008 at 5:21 pmthey need to do things the Chicago way because they can.
remmeber the untouchables: “they said one of ours to the hospital , you send one of theirs to the morgue” these precision hits dont do enough damage. they should attack their infrastructure and cut of the power and water. thats it.
February 28th, 2008 at 5:39 am