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Oct. 24, 2005 8:19 | Updated Oct. 25, 2005 8:57 IAF attacks Gaza Kassam launch sites By MATTHEW GUTMAN AND JPOST STAFF Al-Aksa claims one of its members was killed overnight. Photo: AP [file]The IDF continued its response Monday night against the trajectory ammunition fired at Sderot from the Gaza Strip earlier in the evening. IAF planes flew overhead, striking sites from where either Kassam rockets or mortar shells had been launched, and purposely creating sonic booms. Artillery was also fired at that area in the northern Gaza Strip. In addition, the Air Force bombed Al-Aksa Martyrs' Bridade offices, and...

Jan. 18, 2005 21:19 Zubeidi: Al Aksa will halt attacks against Israel By ASSOCIATED PRESS Zachariya Zubeidi, Jenin leader of the Al Aksa Martyrs' Brigades, announced Tuesday that his group would stop attacks inside Israel as a gesture to Mahmoud Abbas. Zubeidi announced the halt as Abbas was in Gaza, trying to negotiate a cease-fire to be honored by the various organizations. Shortly after Abbas arrived in Gaza on Tuesday, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up there, wounding eight Israelis. Hamas took responsibility. The Al Aksa group has been behind dozens of shooting attacks and some suicide bombings in...

Dec. 22, 2004 14:05 | Updated Dec. 22, 2004 15:57 Security fence guard killed in shooting attack near Hebron By ETGAR LEFKOVITS AND MARGOT DUDKEVITCH An Israeli security guard was shot and killed Wednesday afternoon by suspected Palestinian assailants near the West Bank city of Hebron, rescue officials said. The security guard was safeguarding construction of the security barrier going up by the Palestinian village of Idna east of Hebron. The Fatah Al Aksa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the shooting. According to reports, two men with pistols shot the security guard at close range at about 2 p.m. The...

Aug. 3, 2004 14:43 | Updated Aug. 3, 2004 15:13 Al-Aksa terrorist gets two life sentences By JPOST.COM STAFF A Palestinian terrorist affiliated with Fatah's al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades was sentenced to two life sentences and 35 years imprisonment by the Hebron Military Court Tuesday. Ya'acoub Kadri, 32, of Bir el-Basha in the West Bank, was convicted of taking part in the killing of two Israeli citizens, firing at Israeli civilians and security forces and planning terror attacks against Israeli targets. Kadri joined al-Aksa ranks in September 2000 at the start of the second Palestinian intifada. At the time he pledged...

Oct. 4, 2003 IDF kills Metzer attack terrorist By ARIEH O'SULLIVAN Special Forces tracked down and killed Saturday the terrorist who sneaked into a kibbutz last November and gunned down five people including a mother and her two sons as she read them a bedtime story. Security forces have been on the trail of Sirhan Sirhan, a Fatah member, ever since he was able to escape from the attack. They finally caught up with him Saturday afternoon in the Tulkarum refugee camp. A unit from the Border Police undercover unit ambushed him as he road in a vehicle with two...

Mar. 13, 2003 Paratroopers kill five Palestinian fugitives near Jenin (UPDATE) By THE JERUSALEM POST INTERNET STAFF IDF paratroopers killed five Palestinian fugitives in the area of Tamoun near Jenin on the West Bank Thursday. OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky said the men were all high on Israel's wanted list. Kaplisnky added that Thursday's operation was meant to prevent a planned attack. While approaching a militant hideout, soldiers were fired on and returned fire, killing five. Troops clamped a curfew on Tamoun, near the Palestinian city of Nablus. The army said soldiers found an explosives belt apparently meant for...