Reply #9: IDF surrounds Jericho jail holding Ze'evi killers

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"Large numbers of Israel Defense Forces soldiers on Tuesday surrounded the prison in the West Bank city of Jericho where five Palestinian militants are jailed over the assassination of minister Rehavam Ze'evi in 2001.

IDF sources said the raid was being carried out in order to transfer the prisoners to an Israeli prison."

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"Witnesses said that an Israel Air Force helicopter launched a missile at the prison compound Tuesday afternoon.

An IDF colonel told reporters in Jericho that the main aim was to arrest those at the prison. Using a loudspeaker, the troops called on the militants in the jail to come out and surrender themselves."

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"He said that of 200 people inside, 44 have surrendered so far. He said the main targets of the raid, including those involved in the Ze'evi assassination, have not yet come out.

In a bid to pressure those inside into surrendering, IDF troops used machine-gun fire and tank shells on the prison Tuesday afternoon, and used bulldozers to knock down the walls."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/694059.html


Sounds perfectly reasonable to me.

If you desire to transfer some Palestinian prisoners from a jail in Jericho to one inside Israel, you just go to that jail, ask the British and Americans who have agreed to guard these prisoners to leave, rake the jail with rocket, machine gun, and tank fire, and then start knocking the jail walls down with a bulldozer.

Who could have a problem with this? :shrug: