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Israel Retaliates for Deadly Attacks Near Sinai

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Israeli jets attacked the southern Gaza Strip Thursday after the government blamed Gaza militants for a series of deadly raids in southern Israel.

Israeli military officials say at least five people were killed in the airstrike. The Reuters news agency says the dead included a chief of the Popular Resistance Committee, an armed Palestinian faction.

Earlier Thursday, gunmen carried out a series of apparently coordinated attacks in southern Israel that killed at least seven people.

Israeli officials say the attacks took place in quick succession near the border with Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. They say 40 people were wounded in the attacks.

Authorities say gunmen opened fire on a passenger bus and a private vehicle, targeted a military patrol and detonated explosives near security forces. Israeli media reports say Israeli troops tracked and killed seven suspected attackers.

Defense Secretary Ehud Barak called the attacks a grave terrorist incident. Barak and other Israeli officials asserted that the attackers came from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and entered Israel from the Sinai. Hamas has denied involvement.

The United States and the United Nations issued separate statements condemning the attacks. U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon also urged restraint.

Israel has expressed concern about a deterioration of security in the Sinai since Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak resigned in February.

Last week, Egypt moved additional forces to the region in an effort to improve security.

VOA

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25 responses to “Israel Retaliates for Deadly Attacks Near Sinai”

  1. 5thDrawer Avatar
    5thDrawer

    “Popular Resistance Committee” …..
      Welllll … there’s their first problem …
    “A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.” — Sir Barnett Cocks 

  2. Avatar
    Anonymous

    “Popular Resistance Committee” …..
      Welllll … there’s their first problem …
    “A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.” — Sir Barnett Cocks 

  3. 2160John Avatar
    2160John

    Why did they attack Gaza if they were from Sinai. Hhmm

    1. American Infidels Avatar
      American Infidels

      They came thru the tunnels as always,this was straight up a kidnap mission

  4. Avatar
    Anonymous

    Why did they attack Gaza if they were from Sinai. Hhmm

    1. Iran Aware Avatar
      Iran Aware

      They came thru the tunnels as always,this was straight up a kidnap mission

  5. Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel Avatar
    Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel

    Or a headline that isn’t anti-Israel: ‘Seven Israeli Civilians Murdered by Gazan Terrorists. Israel strikes Hamas Strongholds in Response’.

  6. Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel Avatar
    Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel

    Or a headline that isn’t anti-Israel: ‘Seven Israeli Civilians Murdered by Gazan Terrorists. Israel strikes Hamas Strongholds in Response’.

  7. Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel Avatar
    Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel

    Or a headline that isn’t anti-Israel: ‘Seven Israeli Civilians Murdered by Gazan Terrorists. Israel strikes Hamas Strongholds in Response’.

  8. Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel Avatar
    Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel

    They came from Gaza via the Sinai. However, I’ve heard that the bus driver says he saw Egyptian uniforms. It’s being swept under the rug.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar
      5thDrawer

      One could believe almost anything and any group with the desire … there ARE so many of those ‘little groups’ .. some striving to be ‘recognized’ simply to raise themselves up closer to being in charge in the weird-think world of theoretical revolutionaries, who are basically just gangs. Sometimes, it is simply a family-feud reasoning. Uniforms mean little when so many can be had, so who knows for sure? The dead don’t talk … and Egypt has lost some control of those ‘tribes’ who roam the dessert too. Another 100 years and all the tribes will have different leaders … and perhaps you are looking at the new life-style of the end-of-Med countries for the next millennia.
      Eventually it will be called ‘culture’ and everyone will develop good legs for running from bullets. Winners in Olympics. 🙂

    2. American Infidels Avatar
      American Infidels

      Actually it seems they were IDF uniforms

  9. Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel Avatar
    Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel

    They came from Gaza via the Sinai. However, I’ve heard that the bus driver says he saw Egyptian uniforms. It’s being swept under the rug.

  10. Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel Avatar
    Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel

    They came from Gaza via the Sinai. However, I’ve heard that the bus driver says he saw Egyptian uniforms. It’s being swept under the rug.

  11. Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel Avatar
    Adam Yonatan Ben Yoel

    They came from Gaza via the Sinai. However, I’ve heard that the bus driver says he saw Egyptian uniforms. It’s being swept under the rug.

    1. Avatar
      Anonymous

      One could believe almost anything and any group with the desire … there ARE so many of those ‘little
       groups’ .. some striving to be ‘recognized’ simply to raise themselves up closer to being in charge in the weird-think world of theoretical revolutionaries, who are basically just gangs. Sometimes, it is simply a family-feud reasoning. Uniforms mean little when so many can be had, so who knows for sure? The dead don’t talk … and Egypt has lost some control of those ‘tribes’ who roam the dessert too. Another 100 years and all the tribes will have different leaders … and perhaps you are looking at the new life-style of the end-of-Med countries for the next millennia.

    2. Iran Aware Avatar
      Iran Aware

      Actually it seems they were IDF uniforms

  12. antar2011 Avatar
    antar2011

    what about the lives of the innosents that have died during these attack?
    don’t they count too?
    or because they are arabs they don’t matter?

    if israel feels that it has been attacked, the retaliation is not to kill here and there young and old, women and babies, those who have everything to do with the initial attack against the zionist state and those who haven’t…..for the sake of revenge.

    and some zionist wonder why some pple hate the zionist state….it is this strategy that the zionists state has managed to piss off any arab muslim or christian. because it retaliates with mass destruction rather then go out for the murderes themselves. and no excuse can be given for the killing of innosent lives…on both sides….both sides are wrong.

    if the zionist state is retaliating with high tech weapons for the reason of self defense, who will defend the honour and the lives of the innosent killed by chance in some of those raids?

    if the zionist state does not change its strategy for self defend and discriminate between innosents and murderers, it will only create more bloodshed and ills, as it has been doing for more then 10 years at least.

    time to change startegy for once!

    1. American Infidels Avatar
      American Infidels

      Almost as bad as Hezbollah overthrowing your democratically elected government with a threat of force huh? AND also almost destroying the country in a war with Israel for their Iranian masters?
      Israel is in absolute right to strike these killers. You should know this, you harbor them in your state as well and have had to go in the camps and flush the toilets so dont even go there..I do recall a prolonged artillery strike on one camp a few years ago,but that’s different right?
      If the Pals quit trying to stab and shoot and blow up Jews everyday, they might get somewhere. But no.. And this is why they will NEVER have a state. EVER. watch and see them fail in September..They NEVER learn.

      1. antar2011 Avatar
        antar2011

        you are corerct the killers..zionist have every right to punish the killers….

        but NOT the innosent women, children and men who fall too…

        you are criticising Bashaar on his murder? this post of yours seems no different then the mentsality of bashaar…
        lets punish everyone regardless of they were pepetrators or not because few of them attacked us first.

        your’e hypocrite.

      2. antar2011 Avatar
        antar2011

        hell this site is full of zionist who are symposiserz with the zionist state…they are against iran not because they care for the arab world but because iran is a threat to their entity…

        they have to stop talking in the name of human rights because when it comes to the attrocities zionist state commited and still commiting towards SOME INNOSENT palestinian, and the violations against human rights the terrorist state is commiting is OKAY for them because they can call it self defense.

        disgustinf hypocritical stinking mentality.

  13. Avatar
    Anonymous

    what about the lives of the innosents that have died during these attack?
    don’t they count too?
    or because they are arabs they don’t matter?

    if israel feels that it has been attacked, the retaliation is not to kill here and there young and old, women and babies, those who have everything to do with the initial attack against the zionist state and those who haven’t…..for the sake of revenge.

    and some zionist wonder why some pple hate the zionist state….it is this strategy that the zionists state has managed to piss off any arab muslim or christian. because it retaliates with mass destruction rather then go out for the murderes themselves. and no excuse can be given for the killing of innosent lives…on both sides….both sides are wrong.

    if the zionist state is retaliating with high tech weapons for the reason of self defense, who will defend the honour and the lives of the innosent killed by chance in some of those raids?

    if the zionist state does not change its strategy for self defend and discriminate between innosents and murderers, it will only create more bloodshed and ills, as it has been doing for more then 10 years at least.

    time to change startegy for once!

    1. Iran Aware Avatar
      Iran Aware

      Almost as bad as Hezbollah overthrowing your democratically elected government with a threat of force huh? AND also almost destroying the country in a war with Israel for their Iranian masters?
      Israel is in absolute right to strike these killers. You should know this, you harbor them in your state as well and have had to go in the camps and flush the toilets so dont even go there..I do recall a prolonged artillery strike on one camp a few years ago,but that’s different right?
      If the Pals quit trying to stab and shoot and blow up Jews everyday, they might get somewhere. But no.. And this is why they will NEVER have a state. EVER. watch and see them fail in September..They NEVER learn.

      1. Avatar
        Anonymous

        you are corerct the killers..zionist have every right to punish the killers….

        but NOT the innosent women, children and men who fall too…

        you are criticising Bashaar on his murder? this post of yours seems no different then the mentsality of bashaar…
        lets punish everyone regardless of they were pepetrators or not because few of them attacked us first.

        your’e hypocrite.

      2. Avatar
        Anonymous

        hell this site is full of zionist who are symposiserz with the zionist state…they are against iran not because they care for the arab world but because iran is a threat to their entity…

        they have to stop talking in the name of human rights because when it comes to the attrocities zionist state commited and still commiting towards SOME INNOSENT palestinian, and the violations against human rights the terrorist state is commiting is OKAY for them because they can call it self defense.

        disgustinf hypocritical stinking mentality.

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