Tuesday, October 05, 2004

Israeli Air Strike Kills Hamas Commander

From the Sidney Morning Herald:
An Israeli air strike on a northern Gaza refugee camp killed at least four Palestinian militants yesterday, the fifth day of one of Israel's bloodiest offensives in Gaza in four years of conflict.

Witnesses and doctors said the dead included a Hamas field commander.

The early-morning raid was launched shortly after Israel's army chief warned that the incursion into Gaza would last "as long as necessary" to halt rocket attacks against Israel.

Nearly 200 tanks and armoured vehicles have seized nine square kilometres of the northern strip and carried out raids deep into the teeming Jabalya refugee camp, a militant hotbed. Other armour has encircled the town of Beit Hanoun.

Fifty-nine Palestinians, at least 38 of them militants, have been killed in fighting since Israel launched the offensive five days ago after two Israeli children were killed in a rocket strike on the Israeli border town of Sderot.

"Our mission is to remove Sderot from rocket fire range," said the Israeli commander, Colonel Eyal Izenburg.

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In preparation for their planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip next year, the Israelis are more than justified in striking areas used by terrorists to lob rockets at their settlements inside Israel. Within the past five days alone, Israeli military has "hit seven gangs of militants involved in firing rockets, including one on a donkey cart."

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