Published: December 7, 2004
Posted on 12/07/2004 4:42:38 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
By GREG MYRE
Published: December 7, 2004
ERUSALEM, Dec. 7 - An Israeli soldier was killed and four were wounded today when a Palestinian double agent lured the troops into a booby-trapped chicken coop in Gaza City, the Hamas movement said.
In the fighting that followed, Israeli forces killed four Palestinian militants in the bloodiest single clash since the Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat died near four weeks ago, Hamas said. The Israeli military declined to comment on the Hamas statement. Fighting in the Gaza Strip had become less frequent recently as Israelis and Palestinians, along with others in the region, raised the prospect of resuming political discussions in the wake of Mr. Arafat's death.
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But before dawn today, Israeli troops launched a weapons search on the eastern edge of Gaza City, and the resulting chicken-coop explosion killed a sergeant and a bomb-sniffing dog and wounded four soldiers, the military said.
Hamas, the Islamic group that has carried out many attacks against Israel, claimed responsibility for the elaborate ambush at a news conference staged by three armed and masked men in Gaza City.
The spokesmen said Hamas members spent four months digging a tunnel to the east of Gaza City, near the Karni border crossing with Israel, and planted explosives inside.
During the same period, a Hamas member posed as an informant cooperating with the Israeli security forces, the spokesmen said. Israel relies on a vast network of Palestinian informants to track down Palestinians involved in violence.
The supposed informant provided the details that drew the soldiers to the booby-trapped chicken coop, which hid the entrance to the tunnel. As the soldiers reached the scene, the explosives were detonated, the Hamas men said.
"We managed to lure Zionist intelligence toward bitter death," said one of the masked Hamas spokesmen.
In gun battles that followed the explosion, two Hamas men were killed, and an Israeli airstrike in the area killed two members of Islamic Jihad who came to take part in the fighting, the Palestinian groups said.
At least seven other Palestinians were wounded as many youths took to the streets to throw stones at Israeli troops, according to Palestinian witnesses and hospital officials.
The sergeant was the first Israeli soldier killed in fighting in more than a month, one of the longest such stretches during the past four years.
Even in the reporting of a tragedy like this, the media still shys away from calling him or Hamas terorrists.
What do the Geneva Conventions say about a traitor leading men to their slaughter?
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Hamas, damn them! They brag about it.....
Hamas .... Needs to be wasted with extreme prejudice
"When you try to investigate them, then these Islamists will lie. Because they practice something called "Taqiyyah". It means that a Muslim will never be truthful to the law enforcement or anyone when such truth will convict a fellow Muslim. Taqiyyah is practiced extensively my Islamists at all levels. Simply they will lie to a non-Muslim."Muhammad said "War is deceit"
Qur’an 66:1 “Allah has already sanctioned for you the dissolution of your vows.”
Bukhari:V4B52N268 “Allah’s Apostle said, ‘War is deceit.’”
I guess they needed time to get the Arafat bait-and-switch going again.
I don't care how they're wasted, they need to be gone. Hamas exists only for murder.
And Muslims don't just lie to non-Muslims, they lie to each other all the time. One of the finer inner-Muslim lies was when Nasser was swearing to King Abdullah that the Israelis were defeated and he should send his army in for the spoils. (I know you know this better than me, but let's just state it for the record.)
At that moment, though, the Egyptian Air Force had been bombed out of existance and that was at the very start of the 1967 6 Day War debacle that cost Abdullah Jerusalem and the West Bank for his cupidity.
Lying is ingrained in the Islamic 'culture', they can't trust their own family members, let alone anyone else.
Yes they do. It's a victory. Hope the spokesman realizes the IDF likely knows the face under the mask.
The problem is that with Arab Muslims you never know who's lying to who. It's an ingrained cultural tradition to lie, and those raised believing that a lie is abhorrent to God have trouble understanding that.
I'm aware of this but you have the facts down cold! Muslim dictators like to brag. Like to brag and distort battles and the masses accept it as close enough to reality
Murderers-In-Training. Gun them down.
If they're so proud, how come they wear the masks?
Presumably they don't want to push their luck in the interest of 72 virgins/raisins. Not to worry, I'd guess anyone who matters knows just who they are.
Meanwhile, other IDF soldiers have to deal with leftist nuts who've opted to make asses of themselves for college credit:
Israeli soldiers scuffle with Protesters during a protest at the construction site of Israel's controversial security barrier in the West Bank village of Boudros near Ramallah, December 7, 2004. REUTERS/ Gil Cohen Magen
Just like the KKK. Too afraid to show their faces in public.
Let's not forget that to this day Egypt celebrates their great victory in the 73 war. It's a different reality.
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