From the In-Case-You-Were-Wondering Dept: Palestinians Continue to Attack Israel
Responding to Israel's historic withdrawal from the Gaza Strip, in which a democracy (that's Israel) took the unprecedented step of unilaterally giving up land won in a defensive war, Palestinian terrorist groups are continuing their war against Israel:
An IDF aircraft fired at least one missile at an open field in the northern Gaza Strip early Wednesday. The attack came shortly after Palestinians shot a homemade Kassam rocket at the Sha'ar Hanegev industrial zone in the northern Negev. In addition, several sonic booms caused by Israeli warplanes were heard in Gaza City during the night. The army said the airstrike targeted an empty field in northern Gaza used by Palestinian groups to launch the rockets.
All this started when Israel intercepted one of Islamic Jihad's top murderers:
Another gunman emerged from an alley and engaged in a firefight with troops. Wounded, he fled to a nearby house. According to witnesses, troops sent in after him dogs equipped with monitoring equipment and fired a rocket into the house to flush him out. Soldiers shot him as he climbed the steps killing him instantly, witness said. He was later identified as Louie Sa'adi, the mastermind behind the suicide bombing at the Stage nightclub in Tel Aviv in February that killed five Israelis and the Netanya suicide bombing outside of the Sharon mall and an attempted terror attack in Shavei Shomron.
He was also involved in a car bomb in Mevo Dotan and three attempts to smuggle suicide bombers into Jerusalem. Ephraim Brigade Commander Col. Aharon Haliba told Army Radio on Monday morning that Sa'adi's cell had been planning to attack Israel in the near future. "Louie Sa'adi's hands are covered in Israeli blood... I think that this blow to them [Islamic Jihad] on this day, on the eve of the holiday, saved many lives," he said.
It's a cycle of violence! The IDF kills terrorists planning to murder Israelis, and other terrorists respond by... threatening to murder Israelis. And in the end, Israel is blamed for inciting terrorists to try to murder Israelis.
An IDF aircraft fired at least one missile at an open field in the northern Gaza Strip early Wednesday. The attack came shortly after Palestinians shot a homemade Kassam rocket at the Sha'ar Hanegev industrial zone in the northern Negev. In addition, several sonic booms caused by Israeli warplanes were heard in Gaza City during the night. The army said the airstrike targeted an empty field in northern Gaza used by Palestinian groups to launch the rockets.
All this started when Israel intercepted one of Islamic Jihad's top murderers:
Another gunman emerged from an alley and engaged in a firefight with troops. Wounded, he fled to a nearby house. According to witnesses, troops sent in after him dogs equipped with monitoring equipment and fired a rocket into the house to flush him out. Soldiers shot him as he climbed the steps killing him instantly, witness said. He was later identified as Louie Sa'adi, the mastermind behind the suicide bombing at the Stage nightclub in Tel Aviv in February that killed five Israelis and the Netanya suicide bombing outside of the Sharon mall and an attempted terror attack in Shavei Shomron.
He was also involved in a car bomb in Mevo Dotan and three attempts to smuggle suicide bombers into Jerusalem. Ephraim Brigade Commander Col. Aharon Haliba told Army Radio on Monday morning that Sa'adi's cell had been planning to attack Israel in the near future. "Louie Sa'adi's hands are covered in Israeli blood... I think that this blow to them [Islamic Jihad] on this day, on the eve of the holiday, saved many lives," he said.
It's a cycle of violence! The IDF kills terrorists planning to murder Israelis, and other terrorists respond by... threatening to murder Israelis. And in the end, Israel is blamed for inciting terrorists to try to murder Israelis.
