Friday, April 8, 2011

Israel and the Gaza militias face anti-tank missiles and air strikes

Israel Air Force attacked numerous targets in the Gaza Strip, killing three Palestinians (two militants and one civilian) after Gaza militia fired an antitank missile against a school bus that has critically injured a teenager Israel 16. Palestinian armed factions had threatened a "painful and very hard vengeance in the heart of the enemy" after the air attack on Friday that killed three members of the armed wing of Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza.

Israel justified it saying that it was preparing a statement that the kidnapping of Israeli tourists in the Egyptian Sinai, which Hamas denied saying that "we do not act out of Palestine." On the afternoon of Thursday, the answer has come from Hamas and other Palestinian factions will likely lead to further escalation if not open conflict is envisioned as two years ago.

"I have ordered the army to take all necessary steps to respond quickly and decisively to the Hamas terrorist attack against a school bus near Kibbutz Saad. Hamas is the single most responsible for the attacks launched from Gaza," warned the minister Israeli Defense Ehud Barak. Shortly after the anti-tank missile fired at the bus, the militias have fired several rockets and 20 mortar shells into southern Israel.

Given the intensity of the shot, it is believed that the author is the armed wing of Hamas. For the first time since their deployment last week, the Israeli anti-missile system has neutralized Iron Dome today two Grad rockets fired at the city of Ashkelon. The Palestinians, meanwhile, reported that Israeli helicopters have attacked areas like Khan Yunis or Shaayia neighborhood in Gaza City.

Also, tanks have been fired from the border. The balance is a dead Palestinian momentary (a man of 50 years) and ten wounded. "Israel wants an escalation to increase their aggression against our people", has denounced Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhum. In recent days, the militias have fired several mortar shells at Israeli towns while Israel has bombed several smuggling tunnels and goals of Hamas.

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