Hamas calls for suicide attacks against Israel

The Times of India ^ | Februari 12 2004

[knighthawk]

GAZA CITY : The armed wing of the radical Hamas movement on Wednesday called on its activists to carry out large-scale suicide attacks against Israel in retaliation for a major gunbattle which left 13 Palestinians dead and 35 injured.

The sounds of the fierce battle reverberated throughout the city as dawn broke. Among the dead were Mohammed Hilles, 18, the son of Ahmed Hilles, the top leader of Yasser Arafat’s Fatah faction in Gaza . The family lives in the area.

Four of those killed were armed. They included Hani Abu Skhaila, a senior Hamas activist who had survived an Israeli attempt to kill him in the past, said residents in the Shajaiyeh.

When Abu Skhaila’s death was announced at a Gaza hospital, Hamas militants in camouflage uniforms waiting outside fired guns in the air and yelled ‘‘God is great’’ before jumping in a car to return to the fighting, witnesses said.

The military said troops fired in response to anti-tank missiles shot at tanks in the operation to search for militants responsible for firing rockets at nearby Jewish settlements.

Troops hit at least 17 militants who had fired at them or were planting explosives, the army said.

Also, Israeli forcesmoved into the Rafah refugee camp on the Gaza-Egypt border, residents said. Five Palestinians were injured in exchanges of fire in the area, they said. The military said soldiers were looking for tunnels used by Palestinians to smuggle in weapons.

[knighthawk]

Ping

[TSgt]

"Hamas calls for suicide attacks against Israel"

In other news the sun will rise in the east today and will set in the west.

[Fenris6]

Damnit you scooped my line! :)

[JimRed]

I've asked this before, and have not yet got an answer: They know who these "people" are, and generally where to find them. WHY ARE THEY STILL ALIVE?

Don't wait to be attacked and respond; root them out and kill them BEFORE they can attack again!

[KantianBurke]

this is news? I took a big dump this morning and named it Hamas before I flushed. That qualify?

[joesnuffy]

Quick send Powell over with another $20 million tax payer Arafat shopping aid package....
that should buy us a couple more feet of Roadmap

[Tolik]

Long overdue. Use any target rich environment you can find.

[TSgt]

"I took a big dump this morning and named it Hamas before I flushed."

ROFLMAO!

You call yours Hamas too? ;)

If they are really nasty I call mine "Islam."

[saquin]

And this is how the Palestinian "fighters" hide amongst children:

A masked Hamas militant sets up a makeshift mortar launcher against Israeli forces, unseen, as Palestinian youths try to cover him from the sight of the forces during an incursion in a Gaza city’s neighborhood, Wednesday Feb. 11, 2004

Palestinian militants exchange fire with Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip February 11, 2004.

From Little Green Footballs

The Palestinians are lucky the Israelis are as restrained as they are. It's obvious the Israelis could bomb the whole crowd, if that's what they wanted to do.