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Posted on 04/11/2003 8:41:21 AM PDT by Asher
Apr. 11, 2003
Israeli forces fire missiles at cemetery, wounding seven Palestinians (UPDATE)
By THE JERUSALEM POST INTERNET STAFF
Israeli attack helicopters fired missiles into a cemetery on Friday during a day-long military hunt for suspected Islamic militants and Palestinian hospital sources said seven people were wounded in the attack, a day after the killing in a similar fashion of a top Islamic Jihad commander in Gaza City.
The IDF refused to say why helicopters fired the missiles into the Khan Younis cemetery but said it was part of an ongoing operation in the Gaza Strip.
Residents of a village on the outskirts of Khan Younis said Israeli troops with dogs searched several homes there early Friday morning. Three brothers and one other man was arrested but the man was later released.
Palestinian national security sources said the house targeted by missile fire, near the cemetery, was one from where militants had been firing at a nearby Jewish settlement.
After scaling back its military operations during the US-led strike in Iraq, Israel has again gone on the hunt for Islamic militants this week, killing two top Islamic leaders with air strikes in Gaza and carrying out nightly sweeps through villages.
Also Friday, Palestinians fired anti-tank grenades on an Israeli military post on the Gaza-Egypt border, though no one was injured, an army spokesman said.
On Thursday, Israeli helicopters fired four missiles at a car in Gaza City, killing a top commander of the Islamic Jihad, Mahmoud Zatme, 42, and wounding 12 bystanders.
Witnesses said one person fled from the burning car as black smoke billowed over the city from the smoldering wreck.
In Gaza, Islamic Jihad spokesman Mohammed Al Hindi said the killing of Zatme was a great loss to the movement but vowed: "We will fight till the last drop of blood in our bodies."
That attack followed one on Tuesday, when an Israeli F-16 warplane rocketed a car in Gaza, killing Saed Arabeed, 38, a senior Hamas commander, and six other people, among them four civilians.
Hamas is the larger of the two violent Islamic groups, which together have killed hundreds of Israelis during 30 months of violence.
Palestinians charge that the air strikes are assassinations of their leaders. Human rights groups call them summary executions without trial. Israel has killed dozens of Palestinian militants in targeted operations.
(With The Associated Press)
"In a deadly assault today on one of the holiest graveyards in the Islamic world, Israeli troops wounded seven Palestinian holy men praying at a sacred shrine"
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There is a related report that they plugged a British "activist" in the head too. Not dead yet but supposedly braindead.
That will really make for a 'headline'. :)
The news were met with a shock all over Europe. Germany's Schroeder was appalled at the use of heavy force against the dead people. He pointed out that attacks on cemetaries are against the Geneva Convention and must stop immediately. When asked about suicide bombers, he confirmed that, technically, the Genevea Convention does not prohibit such actions."
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