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Palestinians form human shield around terrorist's home
Jerusalem Post ^ | November 18, 2006 | YAAKOV KATZ

Posted on 11/18/2006 3:30:08 PM PST by West Coast Conservative

Hundreds of Palestinians formed a human shield around the home of a terrorist in the northern Gaza Strip late Saturday to prevent an IAF airstrike on the building, residents said.

People flocked to the home of Mohammedweil Baroud after he received a warning from the army late Saturday giving him 30 minutes to leave the house.

Barhoud is a commander in the Popular Resistance Committees in the northern town of Beit Lahiya who is charge of firing homemade rockets at Israel.

The incident was the first time Palestinians have tried to prevent an airstrike.

The crowd chanted anti-Israel and anti-American slogans, and people said they were prepared to give their lives to protect the home. "Yes to martyrdom, no to surrender," the crowd chanted.

"We came here to protect this fighter, to protect his house and to prove that we are capable of defeating this Zionist policy," said Nizar Rayan, a local Hamas leader who joined the protest.

The IDF had no immediate comment.

Meanwhile, at least five Palestinians were killed over the weekend during IDF operations in the northern Gaza Strip and the West Bank town of Kalkilya.

Two Palestinians were killed and three soldiers from an IDF undercover unit were wounded during clashes in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya Saturday.

In Kalkilya, troops laid siege to the home of a senior Hamas member on Friday, killing three gunmen, and wounding more than 30 people, including two in critical condition, according to Palestinian hospital officials.

Approximately 200 rioters attacked soldiers with rocks and firebombs shortly after they surrounded the home late Friday, the army said.

The soldiers responded with warning shots and then live fire. A firefight with gunmen ensued, the army said.

Overnight Friday, IAF aircraft destroyed the Gaza City home of a Hamas member - a neighbor of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. No one was wounded but several nearby buildings were damaged, Palestinian officials and witnesses said.

Two other air strikes destroyed a weapons storehouses in the area a short time later. Secondary explosions indicated that the building contained large amounts of weapons and explosives, the IDF said.

Hamas officials said the army had ordered the home's owner, a local Hamas commander, to evacuate the structure ahead of the air strike. The IDF usually issues such warnings, to avoid casualties, before destroying suspected weapons-storage facilities.

Haniyeh was reportedly at home at the time.

Late Thursday night, soldiers from the Duvdevan unit arrested senior Fatah-Tanzim leader Muhammad Zeitawi in Tulkarm. According to the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), Zeitawi is responsible for the murder of eight Israelis, including restaurateurs Motti Dayan and Etgar Zeituni. Zeituni and Dayan, who owned the Yuppies Cafe on Rehov Sheinkin in Tel Aviv, were killed when they went to the West Bank town to buy plants together with an Israeli Arab friend in January 2001.

The troops imposed a siege on Zeitawi's home on Thursday afternoon. When he refused to come out, IDF bulldozers started to destroy the structure, leading Zeitawi to surrender.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hamas; humanshield; target; terrorism
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1 posted on 11/18/2006 3:30:12 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
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To: West Coast Conservative

The Israelis should have targeted the house anyway ...


2 posted on 11/18/2006 3:33:15 PM PST by Ken522
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To: West Coast Conservative
If they want to die, we should oblige them.

End of problem.

3 posted on 11/18/2006 3:33:28 PM PST by rawcatslyentist (When true genius appears, know him by this sign: all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.)
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To: West Coast Conservative
'Hundreds of Palestinians formed a human shield around the home of a terrorist in the northern Gaza Strip late Saturday to prevent an IAF airstrike on the building, residents said."
Perfect. Drop a MOAB on it.
4 posted on 11/18/2006 3:33:47 PM PST by GSlob
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To: West Coast Conservative
Shoot them all dead. No pity.

-ccm

5 posted on 11/18/2006 3:34:24 PM PST by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Sounds like a target rich environment!!


6 posted on 11/18/2006 3:35:09 PM PST by aShepard
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To: West Coast Conservative

Drive them all into the Sea.


7 posted on 11/18/2006 3:36:55 PM PST by bmwcyle (The snake is loose in the garden and Eve just bit the apple.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Drive them all into the ground.


8 posted on 11/18/2006 3:39:00 PM PST by eleni121 ( + En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great)
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To: West Coast Conservative
What the hey?

Give him 30 seconds notice instead of 30 minutes.

Leni

9 posted on 11/18/2006 3:39:08 PM PST by MinuteGal (The Left takes power only through deception.)
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To: rawcatslyentist

smoke the compadres


10 posted on 11/18/2006 3:39:22 PM PST by himno hero
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To: West Coast Conservative

What did President Bush say in a speach a few years ago...

If you support a terrorist, protect a terrorist, finance a terrorist....

It would seem that they all identified themselves as

Terrorists!

It should have been "Splat!, Kaboom!, etal"


11 posted on 11/18/2006 3:42:22 PM PST by Prost1 (Fair and Unbiased as always!)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Sympathy...Just...Not....Coming.


12 posted on 11/18/2006 3:43:08 PM PST by Borges
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To: MinuteGal

Had it been a group of Israeli civilians attempting to shield a home targeted by Hamas, the level of the attack would have been intensified.


13 posted on 11/18/2006 3:45:25 PM PST by downtownconservative
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To: West Coast Conservative
People said they were prepared to give their lives to protect the home. "Yes to martyrdom...," the crowd chanted.

Works for me.

14 posted on 11/18/2006 3:45:57 PM PST by 68skylark
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To: rawcatslyentist

But instead we send them cash and now weapons. I prefer sending them to their moon god reward as you stated.


15 posted on 11/18/2006 3:50:24 PM PST by mcshot ("If it ain't broke it doesn't have enough features." paraphrased anon.)
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To: West Coast Conservative
Yes to martyrdom, no to surrender

Your terms are,,,,acceptable.

16 posted on 11/18/2006 3:50:51 PM PST by jdub
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To: West Coast Conservative

They should start giving notice every day, Have the crowds form outside the home and laugh at them.

They would soon tire of the game, then bomb hell out of the house.


17 posted on 11/18/2006 3:52:16 PM PST by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: West Coast Conservative
If Binyamin Netahyahu were in power, the house would not be surrounded.

In fact, there probably would be a lot of smoldering ruins in Iran and Syria.
18 posted on 11/18/2006 3:53:50 PM PST by DeFault User
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To: West Coast Conservative
Hundreds of Palestinians formed a human shield around the home of a terrorist in the northern Gaza Strip late Saturday to prevent an IAF airstrike

An airstrike with a couple of CBU cannisters would assure no more human shields form again in the northern Gaza Strip. Ever.


19 posted on 11/18/2006 3:56:45 PM PST by Gritty (There is greater security in being feared than in being loved – Niccolo Machiavelli)
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To: sgtbono2002

Why wait for them to tire of the game? Just bomb the hell out of the house every time.


20 posted on 11/18/2006 3:57:00 PM PST by Senormechanico
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