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13-06-06, 11:42
9 Palestinians die in IAF strike on Islamic Jihad rocket crew
By Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and Agencies
GAZA - Nine Palestinians, including two schoolchildren, were killed Tuesday when Israel Air Force aircraft fired two missiles in Gaza City at the vehicle of an Islamic Jihad crew heading to fire rockets at Israel.
The rockets found in the vehicle were Katyusha rockets, which have a longer range than the homemade Qassam rockets usually fired from Gaza.
Several civilians were also among the dead, along with at least two Islamic Jihad activists.
One missile failed to hit the crew's vehicle as it drove in the heavily populated Zeitoun neighborhood, but the second missile struck its target.
Palestinian witnesses said the second missile came two minutes after the first, after a crowd had begun to gather around the scene of the attack.
Witnesses said they saw rockets in the wreckage of the yellow van hit in the strike.
"There was an attack on a car that was heading to fire rockets at Israel," an Israel Defense Forces spokeswoman said in Tel Aviv.
Local residents said the men in the vehicle belonged to the Islamic Jihad group.
Doctors at Gaza's Shifa hospital found it difficult to work with the large number of casualties, and some were being treated on the bloodied floor.
At the hospital's morgue, where the bodies were brought, angry women shouted, "Death to Israel, Death to the occupation!"
An explosion was heard minutes later in the nearby town of Jabalya. Palestinians said Israel had carried out another air strike, but the IDF said it did not operate there, and no casualties were immediately reported.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/726378.html
De burgerdoden zijn waarschijnlijk het gevolg van de tweede raket aanval... Maar waarom was die raket nodig? Het doel was toch al bereikt..
By Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and Agencies
GAZA - Nine Palestinians, including two schoolchildren, were killed Tuesday when Israel Air Force aircraft fired two missiles in Gaza City at the vehicle of an Islamic Jihad crew heading to fire rockets at Israel.
The rockets found in the vehicle were Katyusha rockets, which have a longer range than the homemade Qassam rockets usually fired from Gaza.
Several civilians were also among the dead, along with at least two Islamic Jihad activists.
One missile failed to hit the crew's vehicle as it drove in the heavily populated Zeitoun neighborhood, but the second missile struck its target.
Palestinian witnesses said the second missile came two minutes after the first, after a crowd had begun to gather around the scene of the attack.
Witnesses said they saw rockets in the wreckage of the yellow van hit in the strike.
"There was an attack on a car that was heading to fire rockets at Israel," an Israel Defense Forces spokeswoman said in Tel Aviv.
Local residents said the men in the vehicle belonged to the Islamic Jihad group.
Doctors at Gaza's Shifa hospital found it difficult to work with the large number of casualties, and some were being treated on the bloodied floor.
At the hospital's morgue, where the bodies were brought, angry women shouted, "Death to Israel, Death to the occupation!"
An explosion was heard minutes later in the nearby town of Jabalya. Palestinians said Israel had carried out another air strike, but the IDF said it did not operate there, and no casualties were immediately reported.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/726378.html
De burgerdoden zijn waarschijnlijk het gevolg van de tweede raket aanval... Maar waarom was die raket nodig? Het doel was toch al bereikt..