Gaza operation launched with gunship raids, Islamic terror leaders targete

[Gimel]

Two Islamic Jihad operatives killed in eveing IAF strike. IDF concentrates troops, armor after cabinet authorizes "extensive" operation
Ilil Shahar, Amir Buhbut and Maariv news service


Israel's operation in Gaza following Sunday’s double suicide bombing at Ashdod’s Port began shortly after it was approved in an inner-cabinet session. Two operatives of the Islamic Jihad’s military wing were killed after Israeli Air Force helicopter gunships struck Gaza on Tuesday evening. One of the terrorists killed was identified as Mohammed el-Haroubi. Hamas vowed to carry out "extremely violent" attacks in response to the IAF strike.

The IDF issued a statement this evening confirming the Gaza attack. “Helicopters struck a building in the northern Gaza Strip that housed activity of the Islamic Jihad. The operatives are responsible for a number of attacks on Israeli targets,” the statement read.

According to Palestinian sources, 14 people were injured in the IAF’s strike including two children. Three were critically injured. One of the wounded said the choppers fired four missiles at an abandoned building in the neighborhood of el-Mashtal in Gaza, which was used by Islamic Jihad as a hiding place.

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[Jim Sagle]

1. These operations, necessary as they are, can be curtailed once the Peace

Fence is finished. Deprived of their primary target, the terrorists will turn towards killing each other. Ya gotta love it.

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[Jim Sagle]

8. What's shameful about being glad when thugs kill each other instead of

killing innocent civilians?

[Aidoneus]

3. there's already a "peace fence" in Gaza..

Yet there has been no curtailing of IOF aggressions in the area..

[Gimel]

4. It seems a haven

The Strip is a haven for the terrorist leaders. Yassin lives there as well as top IJ members.

[Aidoneus]

5. but how can that be?

Israel has a "peace fence" around the place and has been bombing it for years.. after all this time, how could the Gaza Open Air Prison & Firing Range still be such a "haven for the 'terrorist' leaders"?

[Gimel]

6. many contradictions

Chuck all your pre-conceptions when dealing with the terrorists and their activities.

The terrorists have been attacking Israelis who live inside Gaza. The suicide attacks, except for the most recent one, have originated from the West Bank, not Gaza. That's the purpose of the anti-terror fence.

[Gimel]

7. Kick

Let's read it again..

[Darranar]

9. Didn't...

the last two suicide bombers come through a tunnel beneath Gaza's "peace fence"?