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April 09, 2005
IDF kills 3 Gaza youths; Jihad wing rescinds truce

Let's check on how that so-called cease-fire is going...

HAARETZ: IDF kills 3 Gaza youths; Jihad wing rescinds truce

"The Jerusalem Brigades is free of any commitment to calm after the Israeli shedding of Palestinian youths' blood," said Islamic Jihad spokesman Abu Abdallah. "This means that now we are no longer committed to truce."

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According to Palestinian sources, the youths was playing on the outskirts of the Rafah refugee camp, several hundred meters from the frontier. IDF forces opened fire on them from the south.

"I saw a group of youths playing soccer in a playground about 50 meters from the fence," said Wael Barhoum, 26. "Suddenly there was gunfire toward the youths from the Israeli side. I ran towards the playground and we saw two of the youths were dead and a third was wounded."

Three men had approached a buffer zone near Israel's border with southern Gaza in the Rafah refugee camp. Troops fired at them after they failed to heed warning shots, a military source said. Israel Radio quoted an IDF official who said the youths were crawling toward the fence.

(Note from friend: "I didn't realize that soccer is played with bolt-cutters and knives.")

UPDATE:
Another turbaned moonbat reverses the earlier statement.

Posted by Laurence Simon at April 9, 2005 11:32 AM | TrackBack
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