They sure were!
Just laying the groundwork for the re-invasions!
"Israel kills key Palestinian militant in strike; Death might fuel more attacks on border towns" by Sarah El Deeb/Associated Press October 24, 2007
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israel killed a top Palestinian militant with a missile strike on his car yesterday, prompting threats of more rocket attacks from Gaza on Israeli border towns.
Earlier in the day, a Palestinian prisoner died of injuries sustained during a riot Monday at an Israeli desert prison. Israeli soldiers also killed two members of the Islamic Jihad group in a West Bank raid.
[Read more about that here]
Mubarak al-Hassanat, 37, was driving in a black Jeep on Gaza's coastal road when the vehicle was struck by missiles. The Jeep veered off the road onto the beach, with its roof sheared off and the front twisted.
Hassanat was the most prominent militant to be killed in an air strike in more than a year. He was a senior official in the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza, which oversees the security forces. He was also the second in command in the Popular Resistance Committees, a loose alliance of militants from various factions involved in rocket attacks on Israel.
Hassanat had gotten his start in the Fatah movement of moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, but over the years established closer ties with Hamas and then joined the PRC. On Monday, Hassanat met with PRC members for five hours, said a spokesman, Abu Abir.
Abu Abir told Hamas Radio: "He was recommending more resistance and more activities in the West Bank. His blood will be fuel for our rockets."
Palestinian militants in Gaza fire rockets and mortars almost daily, despite frequent Israeli air strikes and ground operations. The army said five rockets were fired at Israel yesterday.
[I'm not going to get into the disparities and outright NaZionist lies.
I'd be here for weeks!
One is that it is FATAH, Israel's "friend," that is launching the rockets.]
The Israeli Prisons Service said Mohammed al-Ashkar, the prisoner wounded at the Ketziot prison, died yesterday at an Israeli hospital hours after he was hit by a "non-lethal weapon" fired by guards during a riot a day earlier. But it refused to say what means were used. The prison guards' lives were in danger when they opened fire, it said.
[Yeah, it was "non-lethal," but the GUY DIED! Pffffttt!
See how they write it, the Zionist pukes?
He was wounded, then died at the hospital, almost like it's his OWN FAULT, right?
Stink Zionist press!
And the prison guards LIVES were threatened?
By PRISONERS?
Sick of SHIT NaZionist EXCUSES!!
Those make me ANGRIER than ANYTHING!!!!
QUIT LYING, Israel!!!!!!!]
Hamas's military wing hinted that in retaliation for the prisoner's death, it might harm Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit captured in June 2006. But Shalit is a bargaining chip for Hamas, which seeks the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners.
[Yeah, THOUSANDS to ONE, but it is always the POOR ISRAELIS!!
Case closed, readers!]
Ashkar, a member of Islamic Jihad, was serving a two-year sentence for harboring a wanted militant.
Ketziot holds about 2,200 prisoners in tents. The riot erupted early Monday when guards searched for contraband. In the ensuing violence, 15 guards and 15 prisoners were injured. Israel said the prisoners set 10 tents on fire as part of their protest, but an unidentified prisoner said yesterday that an Israeli stun grenade caused the fire.
[Woke 'em up, did ya?
Sick of the NaZionist LIES and EXCUSES, readers?
I sure am!]
Israel is holding 11,000 Palestinian prisoners for security offenses ranging from membership in militant organizations to planning and carrying out attacks against Israelis.
Ashkar's death sparked rallies of several hundred Palestinians each in three West Bank towns and in Gaza City. "We want the prisoners, not negotiations" with Israel, chanted a crowd of about 200 in the town of Ramallah.
In Gaza City, Nidal Saraffati, father of a 24-year-old man jailed in Israel, said inmates are subjected to regular abuses and their plight should unite all Palestinians.
[Like a GITMO, huh?
Could if Fatah would quit sucking Israeli cock!]
Mr. Saraffati: "This is an attack on the family and the prisoners as well. We ask all the brothers to leave internal fighting behind. We have one common enemy."
In the West Bank town of Jenin, Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinian militants during a fierce gun battle, according to witnesses and army reports.
[Coming for you too, Fatah! After Gaza!]
Islamic Jihad said the two dead men were its members, and one of them was a top leader in the West Bank.
[They were not Hamas, huh?]
The army said one soldier was lightly injured in the exchange of fire, which erupted shortly after soldiers surrounded a house used by wanted men."
[YOUR TAX DOLLARS at WORK, Amurka, while you drown, thirst, burn, and freeze!]
"4 Palestinian Militants Die in Israeli Raids and Jail Riot" by ISABEL KERSHNER
JERUSALEM, Oct. 23 — Three Palestinian militants were killed Tuesday by the Israeli Army, and a Palestinian prisoner died of wounds sustained on Monday in the quelling of a riot in an Israeli prison, Israeli officials said.
The death of the prisoner, identified as Muhammad al-Ashkar, 30, an Islamic Jihad member from the West Bank, prompted vows of revenge from Palestinian militant groups. One such declaration, a statement from the Hamas military wing, made an obliquely threatening reference to Gilad Shalit, the Israeli corporal who was seized in a cross-border raid and taken to Gaza in 2006.
The statement said:
“Facing us are painful choices in regard to the case of Shalit and other cases.”
The riot broke out at Ketziot prison in southern Israel, where most of the 2,500 inmates live in tents. Lt. Col. Ian Domnitz, a Prison Authority spokesman, said prison officers met with “extremely violent resistance” during a routine search for contraband and weapons at 2 a.m. on Monday. About 1,000 prisoners took part in the disturbances, he said, and prison officers responded with “nonlethal weapons.”
[And yet, a guy is dead!
Searched 'em at 2 a.m., huh, in a "routine search?"
I'd get sick of being woken up for nothing, too, NaZionist shitbag!!!!?
And how could they be "extremely violent?"
With fists while you got your "stun gun," lying NaZionist monster?!
Colonel Domnitz would not describe the weapons, but confirmed that Mr. Ashkar had been struck by one of them. Fourteen prisoners and 15 prison officers were moderately or slightly injured in the riot, he said.
Mr. Ashkar was nearing the end of a two-year sentence for giving another militant refuge.
[Then why would HE do anything?
This story is a-startin' to FUCKING STINK!!!!!
How often you TORTURE these guys, you inhuman Israeli monsters?]
Palestinian officials condemned the actions that led to his death, and hundreds of Palestinians rallied in the West Bank and Gaza for the release of Palestinian inmates. Ashraf al-Ajrami, the Palestinian minister of detainees’ affairs, accused “the gangs of the prison service” of attacking the prisoners instead of releasing many of them.
Early Tuesday, two Islamic Jihad militants were killed in an exchange of fire with Israeli soldiers in Jenin, a West Bank city, an army spokesman said. The two had fled a house that troops had surrounded while searching for wanted men, he said.
[Wake up, Fatah, because those are your guys!
And Israel will KILL YA if ya simply RUN AWAY, huh?
And they'll KILL YOU if you STAY, don't they?!
Known as GENOCIDE!!!
And the future will record it as the PALESTINIAN HOLOCAUST!!]
Later, Mubarak al-Hasanat, a leader of the Popular Resistance Committees, a militant group in Gaza, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on his car, according to army officials and the group. Mr. Hasanat was also director of military affairs in the Hamas-led Interior Ministry. The army spokesman said Mr. Hasanat was “active in the rocket-firing infrastructure against Israel.”
[Well, FUCK what the ISRAELI ARMY spokesman said, the fucking NaZionist LIAR!!!!]
The spokesman said eight rockets were launched from Gaza toward Israel on Tuesday. In the evening, one hit a residential building in Sderot, an Israeli border town. No one was wounded."
Again, I'm not going to get into the disparities and outright NaZionist lies.
I'd be here for weeks!
Fucking MURDERERS!!!!!!!
