IDF troops, 20 army vehicles enter Palestinian Authority controlled city of Bethlehem

Haaretz News Ticker ^ | 1/29/2003 | AP

[yonif]

IDF troops, 20 army vehicles enter Palestinian Authority controlled city of Bethlehem

[rmlew]

Shoot the police.

[VaBthang4]

Operation reciprocity

[SouthernFreebird]

I sure hope they don't just park.

[yonif]

Arab witnesses say the IDF is surronding the Dhisha refugee camp. APC's, Jeeps and troops are entering the area with cover from IAF helicopters.

The suicide terrorist who murdered those in Jerusalem came from Bethlehem.

[JSteff]

Why ever they are there, I hope it is fast, fair, and brutal. That is all the Pali cowards understand anyway.

[tomahawk]

Nothing should be "Palestinian Authority controlled", not even Arafat's bathroom.

[adam_az]

Off to dynamite another abandoned outhouse, I'm sure.

Don't expect much else. :(

[demnomo]

I hope they bulldoze the parent's house. Weren't these animals yucking it up about their "heroic martyr" son? These people are savages. They don't deserve anything from the civilized world but contempt and a one way ticket to hell...

I will never, ever forget how they ghoulishly danced in the streets celebrating 9/11. They are an evil and violent people who delight in bloodletting and child sacrifice.

Go IDF!

[NormsRevenge]

FRom Yahoo and AP .. excerpted

Israel Vehicles in Bethlehem After Attack
27 minutes ago

By KARIN LAUB, Associated Press Writer

JERUSALEM - A suicide bomber struck a bus near Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites)'s Jerusalem residence Thursday, killing 10 Israelis and wounding 50 in the deadliest attack in four months and disrupting modest U.S. efforts to restart peace talks.

In an apparent response, about 20 Israeli military vehicles entered Bethlehem, early Friday in an operation that appeared limited to arresting suspects and possibly destroying the house where the bomber lived, in the Aida refugee camp next to Bethlehem.

The blast in Jerusalem blew out the back and roof of the green city bus and sent body parts flying into nearby buildings. Survivors crawled out of broken bus windows. The bombing was only 50 feet from Sharon's house, but he was away at the time.

The bomber was a Palestinian police officer — causing much chagrin within the Palestinian Authority (news - web sites), which has been under international pressure to use its police force to stop such attacks. The attack coincided with a prisoner exchange between Israel and the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah — a deal questioned by many Israelis.

Before dawn Friday, Israeli forces instructed Palestinian security officers to abandon checkpoints outside Bethlehem, and troops moved into the town, residents said. Israeli military officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, would say only an operation was in progress.

[yonif]

A Hamas terrorist who refused arrest and chose to fire upon the IDF has been killed near Hebron.

An Islamic Jihad wanted terrorist has also been arrested.

[Diogenesis]

If the goal is to teach houses to stop killing people,
then blowing up a house is a good idea.

Laxity to destroy terrorists will only produce more.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Do you remember sometime last year or so, when the IDF pretty much took control of arafart's compound and all too briefly put the Israeli flag on top of his HQ?

[Pubbie]

So Ariel "Likud In Name Only" Sharon is going to give the Arafat another slap on the wrist?

I hope that corruption investigation brings this idiot down so Netanyaho can have his rematch with Arafat and his inbred devil worshipping Islamoids.

[yonif]

Do you remember sometime last year or so, when the IDF pretty much took control of arafart's compound and all too briefly put the Israeli flag on top of his HQ?

Yeah. They were around there for 2 weeks. But Bush demanded they leave, so they did.

[VaBthang4]

I agree. I am frustrated with Israel's willingness to allow this nonsense to continue....they need to sweep all Arabs from Israel, those born there included.

[NYC GOP Chick]

The flag was left up there for 2 weeks?!

[yonif]

IDF reconnaissance, special infantry units conducting search and arrest operation in Bethlehem (Army Radio)

[yonif]

The frist incident I remember was going into Ramallah and surrounding Arafat's HQ after the Passover massacre. The US demanded Israel to leave. This was in 2002. Last year there was another incident when the IDF took over a building facing Arafat's HQ and had snipers up there. But they too were withdrawn due to US pressure. The latter one had a flag.

[yonif]

The first incident was for 2 weeks about. The second one was shorter then that.