"I AM THE JELLYFISH!!!! I WILL BOMB YOUR EMPTY BUILDINGS AND APOLOGIZE FOR IT LATER! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!"
Posted on 07/01/2006 3:55:21 PM PDT by Lunatic Fringe
Edited on 07/01/2006 6:00:15 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
IAF warplanes attacked the office of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza City overnight Saturday, setting the building on fire.
One bystander was lightly wounded, hospital officials said.
Witnesses said two missiles hit the south side of the building, setting it ablaze. Due to the late hour, the building was empty, they said.
The IDF confirmed the air strike, saying that it wanted to make clear to the most senior Hamas officials that it held the organization directly responsible for the kidnapping of IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit.
An IDF spokesman said that the army would "employ all means at its disposal ... to secure the safe return" of the soldier.
Inspecting his burning office, Haniyeh called the attack senseless. "They have targeted a symbol for the Palestinian people," he said.
In other airstrikes overnight, the IAF hit a school in Gaza City and Hamas facilities in the northern Gaza town of Jabalya, where a Hamas operative was killed and another was wounded, Palestinian officials said.
The IDF said the operatives were "planning terror attacks against Israel."
Earlier Saturday, about five IDF tanks and bulldozers moved into the mostly empty Abasan area near the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis, Palestinian security officials said. There were no reports of fighting or casualties.
IDF activity in the Gaza Strip was continuing Saturday, with Navy and ground artillery shelling targets in both the northern and southern parts of the Strip.
The shelling of the southern regions were done out of concern that the Palestinians were preparing to transport Shalit to a new location. An army assessment believed he was being held in southern Gaza.
The targets in the north were Kassam rocket launch sites. Since Thursday night, Palestinians have fired seven rockets into Israel in the direction of Sderot.
In the context of ongoing operations in Gaza, IDF troops had already taken up positions in vacant areas near the town of Rafah, but the move into Abasan was the first time troops entered the Gaza Strip north of that area. The troops crossed the border with Israel and moved several hundred meters into Abasan on Saturday afternoon, Palestinian security officials said.
The army said the raid in Abasan was a limited operation and the soldiers were expected to leave soon.
Meanwhile, the Palestinian deputy minister of prisoner affairs said that kidnapped IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit has received medical treatment for his wounds and is in stable condition.
Speaking at a news conference in Ramallah, Ziad Abu Aen cited unidentified "mediators" as telling him that Shalit, abducted during a raid last Sunday on his IDF outpost near the Kerem Shalom crossing, was injured during the incident.
"He has three wounds," Abu Aen said. "I guess shrapnel wounds." He did not give further details.
Channel 1, citing a senior Israeli security official, reported Friday that a Palestinian doctor treated Shalit for minor shoulder and stomach wounds, and that the soldier was in good condition.
A Palestinian report likewise indicated that Shalit was alive and well, quoting the doctor who visited Shalit as saying that his condition was good and that he was wounded in his stomach and shoulder, according to Israel Radio late Friday.
The doctor's visit, which apparently took place on Thursday, came after pressure from Egypt led Damascus-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal to approve the checkup. The kidnappers had originally refused to allow a visit.
According to Palestinian sources, Shalit was wounded in his shoulder and stomach from shrapnel, but his wounds were treated and his life was not in danger.
Shalit's kidnappers issued a new set of demands early Saturday calling on Israel to halt its offensive in Gaza and ordering the release of 1,000 prisoners. The demands did not explicitly say that Shalit would be returned in exchange for the requested actions.
The notice was signed by three organizations: the armed wing of Hamas, the Popular Resistance Committees and the Army of Islam.
In response, Israeli officials reiterated that there would be no negotiations with terrorist organizations over Shalit's release.
Less than an hour earlier, the IAF hit seven main roads in central Gaza. According to the army, the purpose of the strike was to make movement more difficult for the kidnappers and to crack down on Kassam rocket launchers.
According to Cpt. Jacob Dallal of the IDF Spokesperson's Unit, the operation's purpose was simple: "To gain the release of Cpl. Gilad Shalit."
Speaking to The Jerusalem Post, Dallal said that the strikes would be "ongoing," though the operation was being done "in a calibrated, studied fashion," the IDF "has many means at our disposal" for escalating the attacks.
"We hope that this will work and that he will be freed as soon as possible," Dallal concluded.
350 shells were fired at Kassam launch sites in northern Gaza overnight. The shelling continued into Saturday morning.
Hizbullah head Hassan Nasrallah called on the kidnappers on Friday not to release Shalit without an Israeli release of Palestinian prisoners.
Earlier Friday, an IAF missile struck a car traveling in Gaza City, causing an enormous explosion and, according to Israel Radio, wounding two people in the vicinity. Palestinian reports indicated three were wounded, one seriously.
Four men suspected of being responsible for launching Kassam rockets at Israel were apparently in the car.
The missile did not directly hit the vehicle, but exploded next to it, allowing those inside to run out, witnesses said, identifying the occupants as members of Islamic Jihad.
The IDF confirmed that it had carried out a missile strike in the area, while an IDF spokesman said the army would continue to target Palestinian terrorist infrastructure in the Gaza Strip in order to put an end to Kassam rocket attacks from there.
Hours after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert put the brakes on a massive ground incursion into northern Gaza, IAF fighter jets struck close to a dozen targets before dawn Friday hitting the Palestinian Authority Interior Ministry and a Fatah office in Gaza City. Missiles also struck a Hamas training camp on the outskirts of the city.
Other targets hit by missiles included a Kassam rocket production warehouse affiliated with the Fatah-backed Aksa Martyrs' Brigades.
An IAF helicopter also fired upon and critically wounded an Islamic Jihad operative who tried to launch a rocket at Israeli forces. The man, 25-year-old Abdel Rael, later died of his wounds. His death marked the first fatality since the IDF incursion began on Tuesday.
An IDF statement said that the strikes would continue as long as Hamas terrorists refused to release Shalit.
IDF artillery cannons also pounded Kassam launch sites overnight Friday. Since the beginning of the current Gaza campaign, dubbed "Operation Summer Rains," the IDF has fired over 400 artillery shells.
The IDF said the attack on Interior Minister Said Siyam's offices in Gaza City was caused by its being used as "a meeting place to plan and direct terror activity."
Also early Friday, IDF troops in southern Gaza noticed several Palestinians approaching an IDF position with an anti-tank rocket launcher. Troops fired at the cell, causing it to flee.
According to the IDF Spokesperson's Unit, two of the attackers were believed to be wounded, but all managed to escape.
The details of the incident were still being investigated.
AP contributed to this report.
Thanks for the ping. The IAF is so precise in their targets, and so clear in their meaning. They knew the PM wasn't there...this time.
No offense intended....
One need only classify themselves in league with the Schumer, Weiner, Nadler, Boxer,Feinstein, Waxman, Wexler, Carl Levin, Barney Frank, Russ Feingold,Harmon, Levin, Wyden, Sanders, Specter, Albright "tribe" of Jews (the stupid/traitorous/cowardly tribe members), or with the Jews opposed to Jews such as these.
Each must choose and act on the choice.
Semper Fi
There are far more Christians than Jews in the US....there are far more Liberal non-Jews than liberal Jews...
Paul Wolfowitz, David Horowitz, Dennis Prager, Josh Barton, Richard Perle, Ari Fleischer, Michael Medved, Rabbi Daniel Lapin, Irving Kristol, Mark Levin, Norman Podhoretz, Michael Chertoff, Brad Blakeman, Douglas Feith, David Frum....many of these "Jews" are/ were members of the Bush WH.
BTW, name a practicing Jew amongst your examples, remembering that Judaism is a religion, not a race....
Remember too, that Madeline Albright was raised Catholic, not Jewish and claims not to have known of her Jewish relatives until she was an adult.
But why not go the "Pat Buchanan" route.
As usual, it's the Jews....
Would you agree that American Indians are NOT one of these lost tribes of Israel, as the Mormon faith holds?
OLMERT: WHO CALLED ME A WIMP? WHO DO YOU THINK IS A WIMP? I'LL SHOW YOU! I'LL SHOW YOU ALL!!!!
So maybe this time they keep the lack of brains in and the head out!!
No such luck, the strike was in the middle of the night to limit the loss of life.
There now, see!
I knew you knew the difference between the righteous Jews and the stupid, cowardly and traitorous Jews -- which are too numerously present in OUR CONGRESS..
See, there IS a difference...
True - there are a vast number of identically dangerous bastards that are NOT Jews in our Congress -- but I'm sure you'll acknowledge that the Jews I mentioned are represented FAR out of relationship to their number in the population... At least I pray that is the case!
Semper Fi
Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.
"I AM THE JELLYFISH!!!! I WILL BOMB YOUR EMPTY BUILDINGS AND APOLOGIZE FOR IT LATER! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!"
This is shaping up to be a very interesting holiday weekend...
Going after what?
---Good Lord....that's just flat out offensive...---
And by the looks of the approving posts it doesn't take much to get the anti-Semetic ball rolling around here. I guess all the Jews killed in the service of this country don't count for much.
The Istaeli government is apparently trying to avoid killing Palestinians
Unfair! If you haven't noticed the Israelis don't kill bunches of people and then dance in the street firing off their weapons. It's not about killing; it's about winning.
What Olmert has done is put the Hamas in the full crisis mode. If Hamas has a shred of credibility they must kill the captive and go full tilt with their hated enemies, the Israelis, that they are sworn to destroy. If they do, they will be swept away. If they don't, they are toothless worms, who do not really trust in Allah. They're in a box, and because of the water and electricty situation the clock is ticking. Will the let their own people die, because they refuse to release a prisoner, illegally taken? And the at the same time refuse to take the opportunity to fight?
The so-called palestinians had a protest in the streets against the ISRAELIS for shutting off the water and power, not against hamas. And please tell me when bombing empty buildings has accomplished anything in terms of stopping the terrorists? The only thing they understand is when their leadership is killed. Bombing civilians is as meaningless to them as bombing empty buildings.
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