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Palestinians in Gaza gathering around the wreckage of a car after it was struck by the IAF on Thursday. (AP)
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IAF strike kills three Palestinians detected launching Qassam
By Avi Issacharoff and Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondents and News Agencies
Tags: Gaza Strip, Sderot, Qassams 

An Israel Air Force strike killed three Palestinian militants in Gaza City on Thursday evening, after they were detected firing a Qassam rocket at Israel.

The IAF targeted a car in the Zaytoun section of Gaza City, a Palestinian hospital official and the Israel Defense Forces said. The three militants belonged to the Islamic Jihad militant group.

The Islamic Jihad said one of the dead was Sami Tafesh, a commander of its rocket crews.
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The strike came after a Qassam rocket struck a Sderot home, moderately wounding a 40-year-old woman, who was taken to the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon for treatment. Two other people suffered from shock.

On Wednesday, after Palestinian militants fired 17 rockets into Israel, IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi that though daily strikes against Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip were having a positive impact, a major military offensive was becoming more likely.

Speaking at a conference in Tel Aviv on security issues, Lieutenant General Ashkenazi said that daily IDF incursions into the coastal territory were hurting militants, but could not be decisive in curbing attacks against Israel.

"We are operating in Gaza on a daily basis. [On Tuesday] we returned from a broad operation - this brings a reduction in the ground threat and the firing of rockets but does not stop it," Ashkenazi said. "We will come to the point where we will have to carry out the big operation."


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      1.   Human life is cheap 20:02  |  Yonatan 13/12/07
      2.   GOOD JOB, IAF/IDF, GOOD BOYS 20:08  |  BOB KING THE ZIONIST 13/12/07
      3.   response to #1 20:12  |  scrapper 13/12/07
      4.   Palestinians aim for civilians; IDF aims for militants 20:18  |  Conroy 13/12/07
      5.   Nothing new under the sun,but hard to believe anything that the 20:22  |  lakshmi 13/12/07
      6.   PURE TERRORISM 20:25  |  BOB KING THE ZIONIST 13/12/07
      7.   BINGO! Bravo, IDF/IAF! 20:39  |  protected civilian 13/12/07
      8.   Merry Chrismas, IDF! 20:41  |  Holy man 13/12/07
      9.   #3 - Agree Fully 20:43  |  Russell 13/12/07
      10.   How to Stop Qassams: `Projectile for Projectile..` 20:43  |  John 13/12/07
      11.   The world should turn ... 20:44  |  Happy cadaver 13/12/07
      12.   Golden Hits of the 07`s 20:58  |  Adrian de Klerk 13/12/07
      13.   The Terrorists Who Couldn`t 21:01  |  Nephtaly 13/12/07
      14.   Equality 21:06  |  Straight Talk 13/12/07
      15.   NICE! KEEP THE PRESSURE ON... 21:07  |  Igor D. 13/12/07
      16.   KUDOS IDF & IAF 21:17  |  SKINFAN 13/12/07
      17.   More atrocious killing of Palestinians by the IAF 21:24  |  Dutch 13/12/07
      18.   Hamas has every right to shoot down the IAF planes 21:40  |  Dutch 13/12/07
      19.   Sderot damage 21:40  |  B 13/12/07
      20.   When will Palis learn? 21:47  |  DR 13/12/07
      21.   Lakshmi, please relocate to Gaza 21:47  |  horace 13/12/07
      22.   Conroy: Palestinians aims; IDF aims 22:21  |  Fred Omran 13/12/07
      23.   dutch you serious 22:22  |  shimon 13/12/07
      24.   Dutch, you sound angry. Don`t forget it`s Christmas! 22:25  |  Conroy 13/12/07
      25.   Everything is clear,terrorists are elliminated 22:25  |  TOMY 13/12/07
      26.   Dutch #18 22:34  |  Gee 13/12/07
      27.   To Dutch: Thank you... 22:36  |  PK 13/12/07
      28.   re #4 `Palestinians aim for civilians; IDF aims for militants` 22:42  |  Colin Wright 13/12/07
      29.   Re: #17.."More Atrocious....."..by Dutch 22:43  |  Jabotinsky 13/12/07
      30.   Re: Dutch # 18..."Hamas has every...." 22:46  |  Jabotinsky 13/12/07
      31.   #17 doris the dutch and sheer insanity go together 22:47  |  victor hardman 13/12/07
      32.   17 & 18 Dutch 22:49  |  leo 13/12/07
      33.   defense track vs. political track 22:55  |  jacob 13/12/07
      34.   #13 Nephtaly, well said 23:02  |  Conroy 13/12/07
      35.   #17&18 another gullible Dutch chocolate 23:07  |  Joe Stein 13/12/07
      36.   self-hypnosis or autosuggestion might help for the moment 23:18  |  christoph 13/12/07
      37.   to dear Dutch. 23:29  |  Henry Korol 13/12/07
      38.   Interdiction can work 23:37  |  Mark Lincoln 13/12/07
      39.   #17, #18 Dutch 23:42  |  Sol 13/12/07
      40.   MEDDLING IRANIS 00:30  |  Stephen Connor 14/12/07
      41.   Victor Hardman and the Arab Barbarians 00:33  |  Stephen Connor 14/12/07
      42.   Dutch #18 00:37  |  Jon 14/12/07
      43.   Colin Wright and the Israeli "myths" 00:40  |  Stephen Connor 14/12/07
      44.   Mark Lincoln - Curiouser and curiouser 00:46  |  Stephen Connor 14/12/07
      45.   @Dutch 00:55  |  Laugh gas 14/12/07
      46.   @Dutch: "Hamas to shoot down IAF planes" 00:59  |  Aspirin 14/12/07
      47.   reply to sol 00:59  |  Billy Jack 14/12/07
      48.   Dutch - continue Yakdy Yakking 01:28  |  Gil 14/12/07
      49.   @Billy Jack 01:36  |  Holy and holier 14/12/07
      50.   #18 DEMENTED DUTCH 02:00  |  * BEN JABO 14/12/07
      51.   #18 DEMENTED DUTCH ignores the basic fact 02:01  |  * BEN JABO 14/12/07
      52.   #29 Colin`s WRONG again 02:04  |  * BEN JABO 14/12/07
      53.   #28 You should change your name to Colin Wrong 02:22  |  Conroy 14/12/07
      54.   #22 Fred Omran 02:26  |  Conroy 14/12/07
      55.   #17,18 Dutch I love youuuuu! 02:44  |  Woohoo! 14/12/07
      56.   Dutch 17,18 03:05  |  Labhras 14/12/07
      57.   Dutch 04:06  |  The Gentile 14/12/07
      58.   To everyone who responds to Dutch 04:29  |  Conroy 14/12/07
      59.   not enough we must get way more aggressive we must want to win 04:32  |  ralph 14/12/07
      60.   Unrelenting Qassam Propaganda Campaign - And The Beat Goes On 04:33  |  chet 14/12/07
      61.   @Conroy: Poor Dutchy ... 05:32  |  Born 14/12/07
      62.   #60 CHET 05:36  |  DANNY 14/12/07
      63.   Virgins for martyrs are officially on back order 06:46  |  Murray of Montreal 14/12/07
      64.   Chet revealed (in his own words) 06:51  |  Stephen in New York 14/12/07
      65.   Dutch #17: Stop urinate boiling rubbish! Do you believe in....... 07:15  |  Vittorio 14/12/07
      66.   #5 lakshmi (Lucky-Shmiaky). Congratulations! Each postin brings.. 07:25  |  Vittorio 14/12/07
      67.   #17 More laughter from Dutch 07:26  |  Philippe 14/12/07
      68.   Conroy # 58 07:30  |  Philippe 14/12/07
      69.   #19 B 07:35  |  Franco 14/12/07
      70.   #60 07:50  |  DANNY 14/12/07
      71.   Dutch#55 Woohoo is a fake, please diregard 09:00  |  Woohoo 14/12/07
      72.   #63 Murray; Thanks for the laugh! :o) 14:37  |  Samuel Martin 14/12/07
      73.   Kudos to the IAF 17:20  |  JB 14/12/07
      74.   #64 Stephen in NY 18:00  |  * BEN JABO 14/12/07
      75.   swift action is better than words 18:39  |  George Duraisingh 14/12/07
      76.   Ben Jabo 19:51  |  Stephen in New York 14/12/07
      77.   #63, Murray of Montreal should be writing for comedy TV... 21:58  |  Silvienne 14/12/07
      78.   #63, Murray of Montreal should be writing for comedy TV... 21:58  |  Silvienne 14/12/07
      79.   #60 Chet & Stats 23:06  |  * BEN JABO 14/12/07
      80.   #63 Murray of Montreal 23:10  |  * BEN JABO 14/12/07
      81.   #77 Silvienne re: Murray 02:43  |  * BEN JABO 15/12/07