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Three Palestinian children killed in botched IAF missile strike in Gaza
AP ^ | June 20, 2006

Posted on 06/20/2006 11:38:15 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative

Three Palestinian children were killed Tuesday night during a botched IAF missile strike on a car driving in the crowded Jebaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. An additional 13 Palestinians were wounded in the missile strike which the IDF said had targeted an Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades terror cell.

The dead were identified as five-year-old Mohammed Roka, and two girls ages 7 and 16, said Dr. Jumma Fatah of Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

The terrorists, witnesses said, succeeded in escaping the car before the blast. Among the wounded were five children, doctors said, including a 7-year-boy in serious condition. The car exploded on a narrow street in the crowded refugee camp. The front of the car was badly damaged, but the back was intact.

Hundreds of angry Palestinians gathered around the vehicle, shouting slogans. Khalil Roka, a cousin of the dead boy, said he was sitting in front of his car repair shop while the children played in front of the house nearby. He said he saw a red flash as the car exploded, and the children were hit.

Meanwhile Tuesday, security officials said that Defense Minister Amir Peretz intended to give a green light to the IDF in the coming days to launch a massive air operation against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. On Tuesday, six rockets were fired at Israeli targets in the western Negev.

"The operation will happen," one official in Peretz's office said. "We do not care if there are 30 Kassams or six Kassams a day since our goal is to completely stop the rocket fire altogether."

The IDF operation, sources said, would most probably not include a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip but would mostly be carried out by the IAF in continuous air strikes on Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip.

Speaking at the World Zionist Conference in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert hinted to Israel's intention to escalate military operations on the Gaza front. Expressing his empathy for the residents of Sderot and the Negev, Olmert said: "No one knows the pain, the fear, and the uncertainty that you're feeling more than I do."

"I know it is difficult and painful," he continued. |I feel for the father who sends his child to school without knowing where the next Kassam might fall," he continued, promising that Israel would take harsher measure than ever against any parties responsible for launching Kassams. "No one has immunity. No matter what he does or what group he's associated with."

IDF sources said that the Al Aksa terror cell targeted Tuesday night was in the midst of planning several different terror attacks against Israel and was involved in Kassam rocket fire on the western Negev. The IDF expressed regret for the harm caused to innocent civilians but stressed that it would continue targeting terror cells in the Gaza Strip.

"Responsibility for the continued rocket fire against Israel lies on the shoulders of the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas government," the IDF said. "We are determined to continue targeting terror cells without any consideration to which group the terrorists are associated with."

Earlier Tuesday, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas called on armed Palestinian groups to stop firing rockets against Israel, warning that they would be responsible for any Israeli retaliation, an official said.

"Chairman Abbas called on all military groups in Gaza to stop launching rockets at Israel and to fully comply with the truce with Israel," said Abbas aide Nabil Abu Rdeneh. "Chairman Abbas holds any group and any faction that violates the truce fully responsible for the destruction and demolitions and victims that will result because of any Israeli imminent aggression."

Also Tuesday, operations at the Gaza Strip's border crossing with Egypt were suspended briefly in response to a security alert in the area. European monitors at the Rafah crossing asked the Palestinians operating the passage to stop operations until the security alert was lifted, said a spokesman for the European monitors, Julio De La Guardia. The alert was withdrawn within 30 minutes, De La Guardia said. Receiving the same terror alert, the IDF closed the Kerem Shalom crossing into the Gaza Strip.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: fatah; gaza; iaf; idf; israel; terrorism
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1 posted on 06/20/2006 11:38:17 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative
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To: West Coast Conservative

Sad.


2 posted on 06/20/2006 11:39:00 AM PDT by conserv13
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To: West Coast Conservative
Muslim terrorist hiding behind and among their women and children!

Muslims are such cowards!

3 posted on 06/20/2006 11:40:05 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: West Coast Conservative

Car swarm time.

}:-)4


4 posted on 06/20/2006 11:42:45 AM PDT by Moose4 (Dirka dirka Mohammed jihad.)
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To: West Coast Conservative

Always tragic when kids get in the way of these operations. Unavoidable, though, I suppose.


5 posted on 06/20/2006 11:48:28 AM PDT by blueminnesota
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To: Moose4

Palestinian Car Swarms --- One of the most vile, demented things a human could ever see. It's right up there with recreational cannibalism.


6 posted on 06/20/2006 11:49:44 AM PDT by navyguy
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To: conserv13

Sad?

My sympathy quotient for moslems is rapidly being depleted.


7 posted on 06/20/2006 11:49:49 AM PDT by OpusatFR ( ALEA IACTA EST. We have just crossed the Rubicon.)
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To: OpusatFR

My well ran dry a long time ago.


8 posted on 06/20/2006 11:50:45 AM PDT by Shaun_MD (In God We Trust. In might we remain free.)
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To: West Coast Conservative
Don't these losers ever give up?
There is no question in my mind that this incident was either set up for propaganda purposes, or completely fabricated.

Either way, it is the "palestinian" and sandmaggot method of choice for getting the AP and other MSM to write up a big "Jenin massacre" story...

Give it a rest.

9 posted on 06/20/2006 11:53:56 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: conserv13

My Give-A-Damn metter broke at around the time the suicide bomber blew himself up in the Sbarro Pizzaria in Jerusalem.


10 posted on 06/20/2006 11:54:39 AM PDT by sofaman ("The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence." Ayn Rand)
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To: blueminnesota
Always tragic when kids get in the way of these operations. Unavoidable, though, I suppose.

This is a "useful idiot" statement. This does not happen accidentally. It is deliberately arranged.

The kids never "get in the way". They are placed there.

11 posted on 06/20/2006 11:55:56 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: conserv13

What is sad is that the Palestinians themselves are responsible for this. If you have not read the latest Charles Krauthammer column, you really should.

As he usually does, puts the wholes situation right in perspective. Must Read

The Palestinian disease: Who Is to Blame for Grief on a Beach?

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer1.asp


12 posted on 06/20/2006 11:57:05 AM PDT by BJungNan
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To: SJackson; dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; ...

bmp


13 posted on 06/20/2006 11:58:38 AM PDT by MrCruncher
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To: blueminnesota

In most cases I would tend to agree. However, it's hard to look at the children of Palestine and forget the hatred of America they are taught from their birth. Those children killed may have very well have been future suicide bombers. Either way, death may have been their fate. It's just a matter of when, not "if."

This is another sad effect of terrorist activity - the brainwashing of innocents.


14 posted on 06/20/2006 11:58:44 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: Publius6961
I'm not a "useful idiot" you asshole. I'm saying it's tragic a little kid got killed but unavoidable on the IDF's part.

Show me where on this forum I support the Palestinians or even use the word "accidental". You can't.

15 posted on 06/20/2006 12:02:13 PM PDT by blueminnesota
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To: OpusatFR

Three less future terrorists.


16 posted on 06/20/2006 12:02:39 PM PDT by Londo Molari
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To: West Coast Conservative
Three Palestinian children human shields killed in a botched IAF missile strike in Gaza
designed to take out murderous sick terrorists.

Fixed it.

17 posted on 06/20/2006 12:06:13 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: blueminnesota
Show me where on this forum I support the Palestinians or even use the word "accidental". You can't.

Well, Mr. pottymouth, I don't have to or even need to. Your choice of words, "...get in the way" is the next best thing.

18 posted on 06/20/2006 12:09:30 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: Diogenesis

Don't start none, won't be none.


19 posted on 06/20/2006 12:13:17 PM PDT by JMS
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To: Publius6961
Your comments have no logic to them. "Next best thing"? That means nothing. I lived in Israel for almost two years during the worst part of the intifada 2001-2002. I think I know more about how it is there than you do.

But since you've shown your lack of reason I'll feel free to ignore you now.

20 posted on 06/20/2006 12:13:53 PM PDT by blueminnesota
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