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Posted on 02/07/2004 6:06:34 PM PST by Alouette
Islamic Jihad vowed to avenge the IAF attack that killed a cousin of the group's leader and a schoolboy in Gaza City on Saturday morning.
Aziz Shami, 33, a cousin of senior Islamic Jihad leader Abdullah Shami, and Tarik al-Susi, 12, were killed, and at least seven others wounded, when a missile hit the car in which Shami was traveling.
"Islamic Jihad is a resistance movement and it will respond to this aggression with all its force," Abdullah Shami told reporters after viewing his cousin's body in the morgue.
Israel security officials said Aziz Shami, responsible for the deaths of numerous soldiers, was planning a major attack against soldiers and civilians in Netzarim in the northern Gaza Strip when he was killed.
Shami was incarcerated by the Palestinian Authority between from 1995 to 2000 for his involvement in the Beit Lid suicide bombing in 1995, in which 22 soldiers were killed, said security officials.
Over the past three and a half years, he was involved in planning and plotting numerous attacks, including the infiltration into Netzarim last October in which three soldiers were killed.
In addition, officials claimed, Shami was involved in manufacturing weapons used in attacks.
Both Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Ya'alon have said repeatedly that Israel will continue to target terrorists considered to be "ticking bombs."
In an interview on Al-Jazeera's satellite channel, Islamic Jihad official Nafiz Azzam declared that "the attack is a message from Israel that it will continue its violent policy against the Palestinians. We should have a united political stance against the escalating Israeli violence."
Shami and an associate, Khalil al-Bassiouny, were driving down Al-Wihda Street, a main road in the center of Gaza City, when their car was hit by a missile and exploded. Sousi was walking nearby on his way home from school when the blast occurred. Shami was taken to Shifa Hospital, where he died of his wounds. Bassiouny was seriously wounded.
According to some Palestinian reports, some of the vehicle's occupants fled before the blast, after hearing IAF attack helicopters hovering overhead. On Thursday night, Hamas member Nasser Abu Shawka was killed in an explosion in his home in the El-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Israeli security forces denied involvement, claiming he was killed when a bomb he was preparing exploded prematurely, while Hamas officials accused Israel of a targeted killing and promised to avenge his death.
Hamas officials claim that Shawka was handed a model of the Dome of the Rock as a gift, which exploded and killed him. They claimed Israel had rigged it with explosives, and a drone flying overhead had detonated the bomb.
Nice touch.
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My dreams gone real wild when watching the footage of the hajj. Oh Mecca, you could be developed into a glass paved parking lot!
YESSS!
Have fun with your 70 virgins loser!
Probably won't be selling a lot of those for a while.
I think we should call that a ZOT!
Because they are dumber than a bag of rocks.
Over the past three and a half years, he was involved in planning and plotting numerous attacks, including the infiltration into Netzarim last October in which three soldiers were killed.
Makes sense to me. Kills 22, spends 5 years in jail, then is released to kill at least 3 more Israelis?
What's wrong with this picture?
Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear...
About this it's hard to have any emotion other than ... Cool!
America's Fifth Column ... watch PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
http://12thman.us/media/jihad.rm (Requires RealPlayer)
They have rocks in their head.
They claimed Israel had rigged it with explosives, and a drone flying overhead had detonated the bomb.Sounds like BS. A couple of years ago a PLO terrorist A.H. died of heart failure (not even in Israel) and the PLO accused Israel of assassinating him. Had it been true, the dead A.H. had it coming, but it wasn't true.
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