Posted on 06/29/2006 8:16:50 AM PDT by IrishMike
As a textbook example of hi-tech precision bombardment it could hardly be improved. Smoke was still rising yesterday from the scorched wreckage of the six transformers at Gaza’s only power station, each destroyed by a single missile fired by an Israeli warplane some 10 hours earlier.
Had they hit the huge cylindrical diesel tank 100 metres away they would have set the whole power station alight. But the strike was clinically effective, cutting all the electricity to 700,000 Gaza consumers, threatening water supplies and depriving its public of light, cooking, broadcast news, and – a crucial issue in scorching summer temperatures – fans.
“I’m so surprised that they did this,” said Dr Derar Abu Sisi, the operations manager at the Al Nusirat power station. “We have been right through the worst of the intifada but this didn’t happen.” It would, Dr Abu Sisi said, take a “minimum of three to six months” to restore supplies at a cost between $5m (£2.8m) and $7m. “The Geneva Convention says it is not allowed to attack infrastructure for the civilian people,” he added. “You might expect that economic infrastructure could be a target in the last stages of a war. But this is not like that.”
The damage to Gaza’s power supply was condemned as “unacceptable and barbaric collective punishment of civilians, including women, children and old people” by the office of Mahmoud Abbas, which complained it was intensifying what it says are the difficulties he already faces in trying to secure the safe release of Gilad Shalit, the 19-year-old Israeli army corporal abducted by militants – including members of Hamas’s military wing – on Sunday.
(Excerpt) Read more at belfasttelegraph.co.uk ...
Wow. Kidnap one guy and they do this? Will Hamas think twice the next time about doing something like this? It had better.
Mazel tov, IAF!
a crucial issue in scorching summer temperatures – fans.
That will get everyone's attention ... immediately
Today electricity, tomorrow water. Free Shalit.
“The Geneva Convention says it is not allowed to attack infrastructure for the civilian people,”
if so knowledgeable, then you must know the Geneva Conventions also condemns terrorism... beheadings, quartering, blowing up of innocent civilians, kidnapping, assassinations.. religious genocide.. etc..
If Hamas controls the Palestinian Authority -- if "controls" is a word that ever can be applied here -- then as the representatives of the Palestinian people they must learn that their actions speak for all Palestinians. So by that logic, all Palestinians are responsible for Hamas's actions in return. Collective authority translates into collective guilt and thus into collective punishment.
Sweet! Let them die of thirst in the dark.
like transit buses, pizza parlors, and civilian houses, schools or where-ever Jews gather? The dismembering of jewish solders, shooting babies in strollers, executing an entire family, children and their mother by shooting them point blank in their car?
Please, lets not have you idiotic Pali-supporters point to "geneva conventions" when these barbaric Islamic animals have no desire to play by them.
I have no sympathy for the filthy murdering animals. You reap what you sow, and my hope is that they will reap a large harvest of misery.
I'll repeat your posting as it is great.....
..."If Hamas controls the Palestinian Authority -- if "controls" is a word that ever can be applied here -- then as the representatives of the Palestinian people they must learn that their actions speak for all Palestinians. So by that logic, all Palestinians are responsible for Hamas's actions in return. Collective authority translates into collective guilt and thus into collective punishment."
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
"The Palestinian People" elected terrorists to run the place, and now they want to say the terrorists don't represent them? Uh...nope, sorry, not buying it. Ka-BOOM!
You know..Israel should knock it off..they might get people mad at them don't you know..
..Ka-BOOM!
BadaBingBoomPING
The Israelis are only trying to cut power for a short amount of time and have showed great restraint in this strike. A transformer yard can be fixed quite quickly. The "months" figure stated by the Palestinian is a lie, unless his crews are really lazy.
If you really want to stop a power plant you put a penetrator into the station itself. If you bust up the concrete floor the generators sit on the whole plant has to be rebuilt.
Expect to hear this term for the next couple weeks. It will be parroted by the MSM, the Palestinian Authority, the Democrats, CAIR and all the other PA sympathizers that ignore Israeli victims and PA terrorism.
Ever see the Next Generation Star Trek where they encounter a really stupid, lazy race that survives by ripping off technology that they don't really understand, and strong-arming others to maintain?
It will take "months" to repair, as long as Hamas funds are locked up because of their own bad choices.
Ever see the Next Generation Star Trek where they encounter a really stupid, lazy race that survives by ripping off technology that they don't really understand, and strong-arming others to maintain?
It will take "months" to repair, as long as Hamas funds are locked up because of their own bad choices.
I smell Israeli strategy change.
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