Palestinians Fire Kassam-2 Rockets From Gaza Into Israel

Haaretz ^ | February 10, 2002 | Amos Harel

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Palestinians fire Kassam-2 rockets from Gaza into Israel

Palestinians fired up to three Kassam-2 rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory, approximately two kilometers east of Kibbutz Sa'ad on Sunday. The IDF has so far located the remains of one rocket, but three explosions were heard midday Sunday.

This was the first time Palestinians have used the Kassam-2 rocket against Israeli targets.

"All the indications lead us to believe that it is a Qassam 2," said IDF spokesman Jacob Dallal. "We found three launchers in Palestinian-controlled areas in Gaza directly west of the Nahal Oz [kibbutz]."

Uri Ya'ari, a security officer at the kibbutz where the projectile fell, said the rocket left a hole in the ground one-and-a-half metres wide and one metre deep, close to the kibbutz farmland.

An Israeli tank shelled the area where the rockets were believed to have been fired from. Infantry soldiers then moved into the area and discovered three launchers.

The rockets have an 8-kilometer range and pose a serious security risk to a number of Israeli cities.

Israeli security forces are concerned that the rockets have also been smuggled into the West Bank from Gaza. On Wednesday, a truck carrying Kassam-2 rockets from Nablus to Jenin was intercepted by an armored corps reserve unit.

IDF arrests three Palestinians in Nablus
IDF troops, tanks and armored personnel carriers briefly raided the West Bank city of Nablus late Saturday night, arresting three Palestinian brothers near a refugee camp in the north of the city. A fourth brother, a member of Fatah's Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, wanted by the Israeli security forces, managed to escape.

An Israeli officer told Israel Radio that the operation had failed to achieve its goal.

IDF troops entered the Palestinian-ruled city around 3 A.M. Israel time, searching several buildings for militants the army said were involved in attacks on Israelis.

Palestinian sources said at least seven Palestinians were wounded, two critically, in the ensuing exchange of fire between troops and local gunmen. They said an Israeli bulldozer also damaged five shops in the area before the soldiers withdrew about two-and-a-half hours later.

A resident of the Askar refugee camp suffered a heart attack and died Sunday morning following the IDF's infiltration, Palestinian media reported.

The IDF continued its operation in the West Bank village of Tamoun Saturday night, north-east of Nablus. Palestinian sources reported that IDF troops arrested 25 Palestinian early Saturday morning during house to house searches in Tamoun near Nablus. However, the IDF said that it had arrested only 15 people and that they had all been released.

Woman killed in West Bank shooting
An Israeli woman, Atala Lipovsky, 79, was killed Saturday night and her son Victor was lightly wounded when Palestinians opened fire at their vehicle near the Tapuah junction, south of the West Bank city of Nablus.

The ambush took place next to the village of Marda, several kilomters before the junction. Her son, who was in the driver's seat, managed to continue driving for several more kilometers, where rescue services attempted to resuscitate the woman, but to no avail. Her son was taken to Beilinson Hospital, Rabin Medical Center, in Petah Tikva.

Lipovsky, a resident of the settlement of Ma'aleh Ephraim, immigrated from the Ukraine in 1993. She will be buried Sunday in Kfar Sava. She is survived by two sons, both residents of Ma'aleh Ephraim, and grandchildren.

Troops began blockading Tamoun, which is under full Palestinian control, Friday night. The blockade, it appears, is the first step in an IDF operation aimed at taking control of the village. The IDF spokesman said that the operation had a specific time-frame.

However, security sources said that is was likely that several wanted Palestinians had managed to flee to Nablus at the start of the operation.

_{By Amos Harel and Daniel Sobelman, Ha'aretz Correspondents, Ha'aretz Service and agencies}

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[cardinal4]

Whatever happens, it's Israel's own fault for not exterminating the terrorists whenever it had the opportunity.

Maybe,but Israel has always been caught between a rock in a hard place,they rely on a lot of foreign aid,and in order to get it they have had to restrain them from the obvious solution of running every single Palestinian terrorist murdering bastard into the sea.I rate Bill Clintons culpability very high in this instance.Yassir Arafat was one of the most frequent vistors to the White House.I say turn the IDF loose and screw the EU,the liberals ,and the rest of the world.

[vrwc54]

Write Israeli on this Yahoo photo search site and guess what you see:

http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=Israeli&n=20&c=news_photos

Where are the photos of the Israeli victims?

A 15 year old Israeli was stabbed tonight in Jerusalem, BTW.

[Sabramerican]

If you could see the tears rolling down.

The inhumanity. This Arab "casualty" brings flashbacks to the World Trade Center.

[vrwc54]

Front page of the NY Times!

[vrwc54]

Don't look. It's too gruesome:

A Palestinian woman takes her daughter to hospital after she was wounded during a strike by Israeli fighters on the Gaza Strip February 10, 2002. Israeli fighter jets launched at least two missiles at a security target in Gaza, witnesses said, hours after the Israeli army reported that Palestinian militants had fired what appeared to be a new type of rocket at Israel. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem Sunday February 10, 07:44 PM

[Sabramerican]

This guy had planned to go bowling tonight. Barbaric Zionists.

[Alouette]

Do these kids look terrified of the evil, mean Zionist soldiers?

[vrwc54]

IDF Soldiers: Lt. Keren Rothstein & Pvt. Aya Malachi Murdered Today

[SJackson]

I disagree. They know full well what type of state they're trying to create. What they are blind to is what that state will do AFTER the Jews are murdered.

I hate to think that, though I don't much care. Israel must protect her people.

What to do after the Jews are murdered, well, it's not going to happen. Rather than blindness, I think it's ambivilence. A fog, cold and uncaring. It's important that Israel and America don't become enveloped in it. If need be, the Euros can take care of themselves.

[SJackson]

Thanks for the pics. They look like my children's yearbooks. But I guess they are, murdered children.

More important, we can see the victims, say their names, and remember them, as their unborn children will be unable to do.

Your pictures are important.

[Catspaw]

Note the high tech precision arc-welded mild steel casing and fins.

My hubby says they're held together, but it looks like they weren't using enough heat.

Back to into to welding.

[SJackson]

Note the high tech precision arc-welded mild steel casing and fins.
My hubby says they're held together, but it looks like they weren't using enough heat.
Back to into to welding.

No disrespect to you Travis, or your hubby Catspaw. But precision isn't the point, they don't care what they hit. What goes up (and often explodes first, though not often enough) comes down on someone. To some, the younger the better.

Israel has to rid themselves of this problem.

[vrwc54]

Your comments brought tears to my eyes. (I'm a woman so I can admit that.)

[zog]

--it sure would have been better if 35 years ago they-israel- had called their bluff on that, and actually cut loose with a homeland with definite borders, rather than coming up with the indian reservation model. Now, ya see what ya see, no solution short of genocide. None, zero.

Hope everyone's happy now, the hardline blood lusters on both sides.

p.s., yes, they DO exist on both sides, people who have always been willing and eager to use genocide against the other side. They've been held at bay for years by the saner ones, now it's too late most likely.

[aruanan]

Palestinians fire Kassam-2 rockets from Gaza into Israel

This sentence should read "Palestinian Arabs fire Kassam-2 rockets from Gaza into Israel." There are too many people, Clara Lou, who have already fallen for the Palestinian Arab ploy to using "Palestinian" alone and so engage in reification of that which does not exist. There are no "Palestinians," only Palestinian Arabs, Palestinian Jews, Palestinian Christians, and whichever other religious or ethnic groups live in the geographical region known as Palestine.

[SJackson]

--it sure would have been better if 35 years ago they-israel- had called their bluff on that, and actually cut loose with a homeland with definite borders, rather than coming up with the indian reservation model.

The definite borders the Arab nations were striving for in 67 were the same as the PLO today, river to sea. While it would be nice to unilaterally cut the Palestinians loose with a "homeland with definite borders" you have to recognize that, to the Palestinians it's just a staging area. When that mentality is gone (thank's to the Euro funded educational system, decades) borders can be negotiated.

[Clara Lou]

There are no "Palestinians," only Palestinian Arabs, Palestinian Jews,...
You're quite right that this is an important distinction. The only things is this: I wasn't serious about nuking the "Palestinians." It just felt really good to say "Nuke them!"

[Sabramerican]

Watch 60 Minutes.

Segment on the Saudis and an interview with Arafat.

[SJackson]

Thanks.