Posted on 09/26/2003 12:34:39 PM PDT by Brian S
By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and Agencies
Two Israelis, including a baby girl, were killed and two others lightly wounded Friday night by a Palestinian gunman who infiltrated the West Bank settlement of Negohot, southwest of Hebron.
"To our regret, we have two killed and two more slightly wounded," said Dror Richter, spokesman for Magen David Adom.
Israel Defense Forces troops and settlers killed the terrorist, but security forces were searching the area for any other attackers.
The attack came as Jews in Israel were celebrating the first night of Rosh Hashanah - the Jewish New Year - which began at sundown Friday and lasts until Sunday evening.
Late Thursday, a full closure was imposed on the West Bank and Gaza Strip, ahead of the holiday.
The closure has been put in place due to fears that Palestinian militants plan to carry out an attack during the holiday. Palestinians will, however, be allowed to enter Israel for humanitarian reasons.
Access to Friday prayers on the Temple Mount was limited to Palestinians aged 40 and older and those who carry Israeli identity cards. Some 15,000 attended and there were no incidents.
Police chief Shlomo Aharonishki told Israel Radio on Friday morning that large numbers of police reinforcements had been deployed throughout the country ahead of the holiday.
Police numbers have also been bolstered in cities along the Green Line, and Border Police units are on high alert along the divide between Israel and the West Bank.
Aharonishki said that the areas to which police officers had been deployed were given careful consideration, and were based not only on specific warnings, but also a more general approach.
IDF troops operating in the West Bank city of Ramallah arrested 25 Hamas activists overnight Thursday, Israel Radio reported.
Hours earlier, Palestinian gunmen fired shots near homes in the Psagot settlement close to Ramallah, Israel Radio said. There were no injuries.
In the Gaza Strip late Thursday, Palestinians fired at IDF troops near Atzmona in the Gush Katif settlement bloc, and troops returned fire. Palestinian gunmen also fired two anti-tank missiles at IDF troops near the Gadid settlement in southern Gaza. There were no injuries in either incident, the Itim news agency reported.
1 Terrorist got into the community, knocked on a door of one of the houses, and when the door was opened he started to spray everywhere.
The terrorist was able to get into the Jewish community because the community is only partially fenced.
The baby girl is 7 months old.
Reserve IDF brigade gets to the house and kills the terrorist.
IDF says terrorists always try to commit murder when a Jewish holiday starts.
They misspelled homicidal.
They must hide in their homes on their own land, while Arafat sits protected on Jewish land.
Happy?
Money spent on motion sensors would be effective to.
When the motion sensor system is tripped..communities would know to lock up...arm...co ordinate with Helo's and ground IDF units.
Israel needs to move its national status to war footing.
Kinda seems insane....so many wealthy Jewish businesses worldwide...from Diamonds to Banking houses.
They should buy the helo's..get high tech goodies for Israel..then go back to their businesses with a good conscience.
One would think that after so much death and chaos the populace would be near to storming the Kennesit with torches ..errecting gallows outside for the Judges and P.C. Politicians.
Maybe one day..Israel will snap out of this malaise and see this conflict for what it really is.
I know and that's one thing I really disagree with him on. I like Bush, I really do. But he needs to:
1) Stop giving our money to Africa to fight AIDS.
2) Get us out of the UN.
3) GET REAL ABOUT THESE PSYCHOPATHIC PALESTINIANS!! They're just Arabs continuing the Arab aggression against Jews. It's just a foothold from which to continue pushing the Jews into the sea.
They know where these missiles are coming from, however, the terrorists shoot them out from within Arab civilian populations.
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