Palestinians: Three killed in Israeli air strike on Gaza
Palestinian medical officials say Israel fired two missiles at a security compound in the Hamas-ruled Strip, striking what used to be the Israeli settlement of Netzarim in Gaza.
By Avi Issacharoff, Anshel Pfeffer and News Agencies Tags: Israel news Gaza HamasIsraeli warplanes fired two missiles at a security compound in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing three Palestinians and wounding four, Palestinian medical officials said.
The Israeli military confirmed the airstrike, saying they had hit two terror targets in central Gaza. The airstrike came as a response to rocket fire into Israel earlier in the day, apparently referring to a rocket that had landed in Sderot, causing no casualties or damage.
Hamas officials speaking on the condition of anonymity said that the air strike targeted a Hamas security facility south of Gaza City. The missiles apparently struck what used to be the Israeli settlement of Netzarim in Gaza, before Israel disengaged from the territory and withdrew all settlements in 2005.
The identities of the men who were killed were not immediately known.
The air strike comes one day after the Israeli navy intercepted a massive arms shipment reportedly destined for Gaza militants.
Tensions between Israel and Gaza ran high last month, after Grad rockets were fired at the Negev city of Be'er Sheva.
This was the first time that Be'er Sheva had been hit by rockets from Gaza since Operation Cast Lead in 2009, when two residents of the city were seriously wounded.
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Palestinians carry a wounded man after an Israeli air strike in a Hamas camp in Rafah on the southern Gaza Strip, February 26, 2011. |
| Photo by: Reuters |
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What? Nobody here cares if Arabs are killed by Arabs? Even it they are unarmed demonstrators?
they have no second thoughts when it comes to kill palestinians. they should not be allowed to kill so freely and not being accounted for. the israeli government with its violent policies should be held responsible.
Hello there, global leftist: Almost every day, Israel’s citizens are told of more displays of hostility by you against us. Often we are informed of various boycotts imposed on Israeli goods, the cancellation of cultural events in Israel, and even attempts to boycott Israeli academia. This past week I watched Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters urging a boycott on Israel. His arguments included an embarrassing combination of charges, including the finest lies taken from al-Jazeera’s propaganda. The most prominent argument was Israel’s portrayal as a racist “apartheid state” that sets up a wall separating Arabs and Jews. Now, listen to what happened Saturday. One or more terrorists infiltrated the community of Itamar, which is located beyond the protective fence. They butchered five family members with knives, including an 11-year-old child, a four-year-old boy, and a three-months-old baby girl. Gaza residents celebrated the massacre, so this is not a case of individual madness. These are the same Palestinians who celebrated the death of thousands at the Twin Towers. These are the same people who are standing at the squares of Tehran, Damascus, Beirut and even Istanbul, screaming “Death to Israel.” As it turns out, “Israel” can also be a baby. Let’s put ideology aside for a moment and only talk numbers. Before the fence was built, premeditated acts of horror were perpetrated within Israel regularly. In 2002 alone, some 189 Israelis were massacred in 53 terror attacks. As the fence kept expanding, hostilities declined, until in 2009 they stood at zero. So these are the numbers. My conclusions, which are only premised on the data presented above, are simple: With a fence in place, there are no massacres. Without a fence, hundreds of civilians are massacred. Hence, those interested in removing the fence support the slaughter of Israelis. So why do you, dear leftist, endorse massacres in practice? Useful idiots Ask yourself the following question: Why do you compare the premeditated slaughter of civilians to unintentional harm to civilians who serve as a human shield for rocket launchers and suicide bombers? There are two possible answers here. The first answer, my leftist comrade, is that you’re simply an idiot. Don’t be insulted, my friend, you’re not “just an idiot.” You are an idiot of the type Lenin referred to as “useful idiot.” What does that mean? You’re simply being exploited. You are being exploited by global Islam in a bid to eliminate a democratic state. After all, you would not be able to survive even five minutes in the alternative they prepare for you. If you want, you can look into the state of freedom of expression, prosecution of Christians, stoning of women and hanging of homosexuals in the Muslim world. You likely believe that you are legitimately criticizing the State of Israel. Yet here you’re lying to yourself a little. There is no state like Israel, surrounded by an ocean of billions of people calling for its extermination. Its neighbors, who realized they cannot defeat it on the battlefield, are simply exploiting you: They fire rockets at our kindergartens from the safety behind your back - yes, you, the one calling for boycotts and screaming “apartheid.” Anti-Semitism The second and less flattering possibility is that you’re not a “useful idiot,” but rather, a mere anti-Semite. Is there another way for you to explain your obsession with Israel? Do you show the same determined disapproval towards China, Iran, Syria, Venezuela or North Korea? The campaign against the Jewish state is disproportional in a way that cannot be explained away. I too admit that the Jews are an especially annoying people. Yet we do not tend to explode on buses as a form of revenge; not even in Germany. At most we’ll argue with you until you die of boredom. Perhaps you believe that you’d be able to clear you conscience of the persecution of Jews and the Holocaust if only you prove that we’re worse than you. Perhaps the fact that the annoying Jews, according to the Bible at least, introduced to the world the morality which Islam and Christianity are premised on drives you nuts. By the way, guess what the next target for extermination is? You really don’t know? Go ahead and look in the mirror. In Brussels, Paris, London and Malmo you shall soon be an extinct species fighting for its survival under Islamic laws. And while you’re at it at the mirror, look at yourself and say the following: “Now, after I read this, I am no longer a useful idiot. Rather, I am an anti-Semite who is assisting the murder of Jews, in practice.” Does it seem exaggerated to you? Maybe so. But in the bottom line, as far as the outcome is concerned, this is precisely what you’re doing.
Do you really wanna compare the amount of Palestinians killed compared to Israelis, do you really want to go that far? Just tell me and i'll count the total numbers for you.. You are trying the same thing again, pushing christians against muslims, talking about suicide bombing. Lets compare then for once, Due to the sanctions against Iraq in the 90's between 660,000 and 880,000 children under five who died as a consequence of the sanctions. And remember, that’s just children under five, because those are more easily measurable by epidemiologists. So please tell me, who pushed for these sanctions? Who used all their lobby power for this? ISRAEL
The bombing of Hamas compound was avoidable do you know that?
DId it ever occur to you that the ineffective, amateur rockets fired into Israel come only after Israel has killed people in Gaza. If Israel is allowed to retaliate why can't the Palestinians do the same? Better yet, lets end the firing on both sides. stop shooting at Gaza fishermen, end the occupation of the West Bank and end the siege of Gaza. Stop giving the people of Gaza reasons to want to attack Israel. And please don't say it is because they want to kill Jews. Any people living under occupation for more than 40 years would attack their occupiers regardless of their race, religion or ethnicity.
The Palestinians ( not just Arabs as some of you continue to call them ; the inhibitors of this land prior to 1948; keep denying.. it just goes to show your ignorance ) , learned from the best ( The Jews prior to 1948 blowing up hotels to get rid of the British official who was against their movement ; whom massacred villages and villages "Die Yasseen" just to name one ).. Yet you keep crying foul. Yes, may be they need to learn how to live together.. I say we pull a stunt from the movies ; force them to live together without weapons in the same place. may be they will be "trained" to live in peace and harmony respecting each other. for as long as they don;t respect wach other , and as long as one sees himself superiror to the other, there will never be peace in this land.
Eye for an eye. If you can't handle the heat, get out of the kitchen. In other words, stop firing random rockets in to random places in Israel and they will stop the air strikes. If then Israel continues to attack, you have an actual complaint. Its a little hypocritcal for the Hamas to claim to be victims when they keep up their act. Besides, I bet most of you didn't even know that Israel provies goods to the Gaza strip on a daily basis, including water and electricty. If they were terrorist, Gaza would have nothing. So enough with the terrorist comments abotu Israel. She is just defending herself.
This confirm the terrorist nature of israeli government. The only way to terminate this kind of terrorist acts is to boycot Israel in the same way South Africa was.
but undoutedly are not. It takes a viscious, empty headed and immoral person to criticize a people for exercising the right of self defence. Israel never initiates the violence. It responds with a view to deterring the targeting of its civilian areas. Most civilized nations and people understand this and understand that Israel is not in Gaza, indeed withdrew from Gaza. Israel should respond in a much more heavy handed way and if its neighbours persist in their goals of destroying the state and killing its people, it should actually take over those regions completely. Its time to stop playing softball by just targeting a few terrorists at a time.
This confirm the terrorist nature of Hamas government as well as hypocrisy of its advocates.
jews are a semitic tribe ie m.eastern
Nice to know israel can take out any Gaza target she wants.
BUILD AND KEEP BUILDING ISRAEL AMEN AMEN AMEN. MEKOACH LISHKAH
Did anyone actually ever get killed in Sederot from a Gazan rocket?
If I shoot bullets into your house every day, and somehow dont manage to kill anyone, do I then get to say to you "you cant kill me, I havent killed anyone in your house!"?-youre a dope.
Simply because the terrorists have bad aim? Don't start a war if you are not prepared to suffer the consequences. Look on the bright side - your SAS and RAF have succeeded in helping Qaddafi retain power
one is only lethal if it lands on your head, the other is lethal over quite a radius.
actually they were SBS but never mind. Yes, a force of 8 SBS personnel took on the entire Libyan uprising and are beating them into submission. I know they're the best, but they're not that good. Any more fairy stories?
Forgets that those so-called innocuos rockets lobed onto innocent civilians who suffer traumaticly each and every day of their LIFE having to rush at the SOUND of the ALARM in a NANO second to the shelters.Wonder how long he'd last were HE in the same predicament ..Idiotic Comment
blame your warmongering and lust for Jewish blood instead.If you kill 3 months old babies and pregnant women you cannot expect to be treated as humans.
If one ever did, we would nuke Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore back to the stone age the next day, and the Paks know that. No country, anywhere, would tolerate random enemy rocket fire into its cities, so don't suggest Israel has less than an unlimited right to return fire massively without regard for any civilian casualties it could cause - not merely "proportional". Proportional in int'l law refers to the scope of the military necessity, not to the provocation. If Hamas launches rockets from next to a kindergarten, Israel is not prevented from destroying the launch site with whatever force is militarily required - that is what "proportional" means.
I fully understand your frustration.
Firing on civilian areas is a war crime. Oh I forgot, only Israeli deaths are condemned ...
Wars defined by one army against another where's Gaza's army If the rockets are classed as terrorist attacks. then so are Israels IDF attacks terrorism. Civilains of Gaza felt bone shaking terror during Cast lead civilians did'nt have tanks and fighter jets white phospherous or dime weapons
israel which makes your argument nullified.
Israel is in perpetual war with the Palestinians. Like the US -- endless war-- is both an economic reality and a political method. When people take over other people's lands, whether by mandate, or by force, the natives rarely take it lightly. Look at what the Europeans did to the Native American Indians. History repeats itself in different lands. Israel will never know peace.
What do they teach you Europeans in school?
So -you have never heard what happen in 1607 to Indians by the Europeans?
But let me correct you... I am the father of the Palestinian movement. I literally put Palestine on the map. I was born in Egypt...
I was born in Poland. My name is Menachem Begin , a diehard terrorist.
were born in Poland, Zgigniew Brzezinski (JimmY Carters national Security Advisor was born in Warsaw, Poland, Helen Thomas parents immigrated for Lebanon,, California ex Gov Schwarzenegger was born in Austria,; Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr[1] von Braun (March 23, 1912 – June 16, 1977) was a German-American rocket scientist, engineer, space architect, and one of the leading figures in the development of rocket technology in Germany and the United States during and after World War II. A one-time member of the Nazi party and a commissioned SS officer, was a Nazi born in Germany; All the Manhattan Project leading "brains" were born in Germany, Austrai, Italy Poland Manhaten Project Director- Prof. Oppenheimer's Parents immigrated from Germany, I literaly would run out of space in this post namimng the millions of American Scientists, Doctors, Professors and average tradesmen from Italy, Germany, Poland, all from all over the world. Did you get it... WHATS YOUR POINT
Who by dint of ridding the HOLY LAND from the JAWS of the Btritish who werer IN CAHOOTS with the Arab insurgents who were killing Jews as soon as ISRAEL WAS ABOUT TO BE RE BORN.You calling me a terrorist implying so. makes you an ardent Jew Hater.. I am very content to be called a terrorist. But in essense I NEVER STRAPPED A bomb belt to kill INNOCENTS (never did)
Just like I the creator of the disease called Zionism was born in Hungary..only after I have thought of other parts of the world where I wanted to created a Jewish state did I come across Palestine
But also you stole all the billions that were meant for the Balestinians./.YIOu cheated them all ..you told the women:: BY YOUR WOMBS WE WILL DEFEAT ISRAEL..Oh the poor ladies who have so many children to feed THANKS your selfish desires arafat . You left them all behind THROING KISSES while on the way to Germany for YOUR DECEASED BODY ..Shame on you.
What utter crap! If Netanyahu is trying to evade world attention, why would he have boarded an arms-smuggling ship in international waters and exposed its contents to the world media yesterday?
Why is this term being thrown around. No Smuggling here .Alleged arms on a ship travelling the High seas..What smuggling?
Sorry Joe, but you have rather conveniently forgot that the ship and its cargo of weapons was bound for Gaza. In case you have also forgotten, Israel is at war with Hamas in Gaza. Israel has instituted a weapons blockade of Gaza. Therefore, Joe, any attempt to bring weapons into a restricted and prohibited area is considered smuggling by Israel. Now even you know now, Joe!
Israel what you are waiting for Strike Gaza with all your might, this time theres is No Mubarak all arabs will Unite and fight you
At this rate Israel if Qassams are lobed into the civilian towns like Shderot and other towns Israel will have to,and will reward them with CAST LEAD 2 and this time it will surely flatten it all IN ONE BIG SWOOP.. Not that I would relish the outcome of the deaths ,bu hey,it is either them,or Israel's survival in Israel
You would be much better off getting rid of the thugs that have exploited you and brainwashed you about Israel and Jews. In any event, Be careful what you wish for.
It won't be pretty for all involved...Peace CANNOT be postponed for another year..Do it NOW else, i can smell war on the horizon...
what's the difference between people asking for freedom in Gaza and those in Ben-Gazi? mind you, both are called "terrorists" by those who oppress them.
lobby.
UN ? Sounds consistent with the views of that Moslem top heavy circus with Gaddafi on it's human rights commission and the history of lying for the Arabs and ignoring what they do
UN ? Sounds consistent with the views of that Moslem top heavy circus with Gaddafi on it's human rights commission and the history of lying for the Arabs and ignoring what they do
UN ? Sounds consistent with the views of that Moslem top heavy circus with Gaddafi on it's human rights commission and the history of lying for the Arabs and ignoring what they do
maybe look in to why Israel and the world calls them terrorists( you do know what happened last Saturday ), and maybe you can come to Sderot and take a rocket back home with you.
Of course Peter. It is just every day poor little defenseless Israel is stealing more land, displacing and killing more Palestinians. Please give me a break, your Palestinians-want-to-destroy-us is getting rather lame
"We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem...have no mercy on the Jews, murder them everywhere…We'll sacrifice victims until Jerusalem is ours....Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel ... "I dream of hanging a huge map of the world on the wall at my Gaza home which does not show Israel on it," ......wanna more,uncle?
you consider death a laughing matter.
Were you also ashamed?
Well - daah, yes, but also more than that: the leaders of Iran and Hamas have to be reminded that we will not tolerate threats and terror. They should beware. Israel is not weak, not hesitant, not in decline. Dear islamists - don´t push your luck. We will do whatever is needed in order to neutralize the threats against our state and the citizens.
And Palestinians should have modern weapons
there are consequences,it's called RETURN FIRE Too bad you dIdnt learn the lesson after the failed Arab " War of annihilation"
peace will protect palestinians and israelis. Palestine will however have the right to build an army like any other existing state. defense is a right all nations have.
The self defense -is it inside your own borders or on the area of your enemy? What about the "attack"?
Are you are talking about the killing of sixty-seven Jews on August 1929? 82 years ago?May be you forgot to mention that during this tragedy nineteen local Arab families saved 435 Jews by hiding them in their houses at great risk to themselves. I would say lets concentrate on whats happening now and specifically the death of hundreds of children and women regardless of who to blame.
most countries have an army for defense purposes. its is unfortunately a natural thing as human beings are predators and like to invade other spaces for various reasons. israel's life has not started under great auspices but could carry on well. i don't see any ground for this not to happen. what reasons would there be for israel not to live in peace with its neighbours? apart from nutjobs in the region, there are no valid reasons in 2011 to reject israel as such (assuming it decolonizes and do not oppress palestinians ofcourse). if you are correct to your neighbours, there is no ground to reject you. why do you think my theory is wrong?
Stop this madness, TALK don't shoot.
steals what it likes The elected government of Palestine" one man one vote one time"
I think you must look at the big picture. The Gazans, are lke the native american indians. Israeli''s are the settlers taking over their lands. March them further and further until they have no where to go. They are doing exactly what they should be doing. Striking back for their survival. The rehtoric is much different than the reality. Israel will not know what peace is -- ever. How can it when its people continue to use an ancient mythological book as a pretense to expropriate land from its natives. What would Israeli's do if the shoe where on the other foot.
Israel withdraw from Gaza in 2005
why are children and old men sniped from Israel when they're still in their own territory? why are fishermen not allowed to go beyond an arbitrary, changing (and therefore illegal) siege border? why are Gaza's skies not free for Gazans to use? blockade, siege, occupation, call it what you want: it results in Gaza being a prison, and it started long before 2005 or a single rocket was fired from Gaza.
The Jews were in the area for thousands of years before their were any Arabs or Muslims on earth. Jews are like the much more like the Native Americans but the Pals, who in fact are the settlers, pretend they are. This would be like Americans claiming that after several centuries of them being in the U.S., they are the native Americans. All the archeological evidence, tons of it, not just "some mythological book", points to millennia of Jewish civilization before there was a whiff of the Islamic sword. The Pals are not striking back for their survival, they are striking Israel because they want the land of Israel. What I would do if the shoe were on the other foot, is negotiate a peace settlement and get on with life. I would acknowledge the reality of the Jewish historic presence in the region, their brutal experience in the diaspora and the reality that there is no way to eliminate them in any event, without the liquidation of the Islamic world. That is what I would do. And doing that, if eventually there was a genuine peace, would make the lives of my children and grandchildren good, peaceful and even prosperous lives, as opposed to Martyrs. I'm not at all sure that this vision is attractive to those in power in Gaza or the Pal people but ultimately for Jews, it matters not. Israel will fight for its right to live. And don't forget the genesis of the original occupation and the genesis of the continuing occupation. The fault lies with the Pals and their Arab allies. Why these people think they have a right to liquidate Israel and that Israelis will simply march, like they did to the gas chambers in Germany, is beyond me.
Arabs didn't drop down from the sky, they allways lived there, and therefore, an exclusive right only for Jews to live there is not legitimate. Devide or share !
Hamas won the Palestinian elections in January 2006 with a great majority and in particular in Gaza by a Landslide. Hamas was chosen by the Palestinians ! Next time; When you ask for something... be careful; you might get it.
Yet watch anti-Israel talkbacks condemn Israel...
During expulsion of Germans from Böhmen after WW2 Chechs killed upwards 300.000 civilians according to German sources.Chechs admit to 30.000,Jane from Prag
yeah what about those stats??? but hey ...you are far more knowledgeable and experienced than Colnel Richard Kemp who said whilst comparing Israel to UK, US and others "the Israeli Defense Forces did more to safeguard the rights of civilians in the combat zones than any other army in the history of warfare" - but what does he know eh? when you have your armchair opinion.
Israel has never ever deliberately targeted civillians this is jut arab propoganda.However most arab aggresion targets Israeli civillians.
The Palestinians have every right to resist occupation and colonisation although one would wish for passive resistance; Israel has absolutely no right to use military force to maintain occupation and colonisation. The Palestinians, while one may question the use of violence have a right to do what they are doing... Israel has no right to do what it does.
Hassan Mahmaod Ihdeib reported that half an hour after the midday prayer on Friday the 28/10/48, Hassan heard the sound of shooting from the Western side of the village, On investigation, Hassan observed a troop of some twenty armoured car approaching the village on the Qubeiba – Dawaymeh road a second troop approaching along the Beit Jibrin -Dawaymeh road and other armoured vehicles approaching from the direction of Mafkhar-Dawaymeh, The village had only twenty guards, They were posted on the Western side of the village, When the armoured cars were within half a kilometre from the village, they opened fire from automatic weapons and mortars and advanced on the village in a semi-circular movement, thereby surrounding the village on the Western, Northern and Southern sides, A section of the armoured cars entered the village with automatic weapons blazing - Jewish troops jumped put of the armoured cars and spread out through the streets of the village firing promiscuously at anything they saw, The villagers began to flee the village while the older ones took shelter in the Mosque and others in a nearby cave called Iraq El Zagh. The shooting continued for about an hour. The following day, the Mukhtar met with the villagers and agreed to return to the village that night to find out the fate of those that had stayed behind. He reports that in the Mosque there were the bodies of some sixty persons, most of them were, men of advanced age who had taken shelter in the Mosque. His father was among them, He saw a large number of bodies in the streets, bodies of men, women and children, He then went to the Cave of Iraq El Zagh, He found at the mouth of the cave the bodies of eighty five persons, again men, women and children, The Mukhtar then carried out a census of the inhabitants of the village and found that a total of 455 persons was missing of whom 280 were men and the rest women and children, There were other casualties among the refugees, the number of which the Mukhtar was unable to determine, The Mukhtar explicitly states that the village had not been called upon to surrender and that the Jewish troops had not met with any resistance.'[
There is only one Israeli in Gaza -- Gilad Shalit -- who is being held in violation of all humanitarian norms with no contact with the Red Cross or anyone else. He is apparently the one occupying and colonizing Gaza, and that gives Gazans the "right to do what they are doing." I call on Gilad Shalit to stop settling and occupying Gaza and return to his own homeland without delay!
And because of those actions, the world implemented international legislation to prevent such atrocities from occuring ever again. What the Czechs did decades ago may be bad, but there's nothing we can do to change the past. It is not in any way relevant to what Israel (or any other nation)is doing today though.
Arabs attack and expect Jews to play the noble game chess.Enough is enough,arabs attack and lose and now spew garbage on Israeli websites!
Dig in the past and you're bound to find someone worse than yourself.
from hovering a few weeks ago because of some alleged scandale involving Barak
I just wanted to respond to Rab Burns saying: "Israel has never ever deliberately targeted civillians this is jut arab propoganda. However most arab aggresion targets Israeli civillians." Israelis are no saints with an indisputable right to rule this land. Palestinians are no saints.with an indisputable right to rule this land. When we realize this, there will be no more massacres and the land will be shared by all. As for history, let the dead bury the dead.
Israelis have full right to live anywhere on the WB, just like Arabs live in Israel. There is no occupation, the Pals did not own/have sovereignity ever anyplace.
What Israel is doing will also be past by tomorrow, and nothing should be done to change the past.
It is you and the other haters of Israel who committed the crimes of the past. So you are in no position to criticize just because today, in an era of peace for you, you do not commit crimes.
Israelis are fed up with your ploy of siding with the killers, while ranting about int'l law whe Israel defends its babies from stabbers.
Are high for Arabs because they hide behind women and children as shields. Why is that so forgotten? Israel wants to rid themselves of the terrorist, not children. While the terrorist who occupy (Hamas or another rouge group) randomly fire off rockets not even knowing who, or what they may hit. One of these rockets may land in the middle of sand box where 10 4 years are playing. That is more dangerous that strategic warfare. If Arabs want the civilian death toll to drop, stop hiding beind them, and stop maing your bunkers in Civilian land.