Politics > Politics-USA > Palestinian radical groups warn Israeli locations north of Sderot, including Ashkelon, to prepare for missile attacks || Hamas activates West Bank cells for suicide operations
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Palestinian radical groups warn Israeli locations north of Sderot, including Ashkelon, to prepare for missile attacks || Hamas activates West Bank cells for suicide operations |
Palestinian radical groups warn Israeli locations north of Sderot,
including Ashkelon, to prepare for missile attacks. Hamas activates
West Bank cells for suicide operations
May 21, 2007, 11:19 PM (GMT+02:00)
The warning to Ashkelon and points north of Gaza came from Jihad
Islami and Popular Resistance Groups as well as Hamas.
DEBKAfile also reports: Hamas military chief Mohammed Jabari has
instructed all West Bank cells to launch suicide attacks in Israeli
towns forthwith.
Sniper teams are directed to target roads on West Bank as well as
Jerusalem and the Sharon district. The order advises the cells to do
the best they can.
Israeli army, police and security services have raised their level of
preparedness to maximum along the West Bank border as Israelis get
ready for the Shavuot festival Tuesday night and Wednesday.
This directive was the outcome of a war conference held by Jabari and
his top commanders, including his spiritual guide, Halil al Haya, who
escaped an Israeli air attack Sunday night, former Palestinian
interior minister Said Siyam, and Nizhar Riyan. They also decided to
escalate and extend the radius of their missile offensive against
southern Israel. Their upgraded Qassam (al Quds) missiles can reach as
far as 19km and target towns like the strategic Ashkelon and the
outskirts of Netivot and Ofakim.
One such missile reached its furthest point yet Monday, landing at
Moshav Shokeda outside Netivot, 17 km from the Gaza Strip.
Hamas spokesmen went on the air Monday night calling out their
adherents to cross all red lines and hit Israeli targets. After an
Israeli air raid destroyed a Jihad Islami four-man missile team in
Jebalya, northern Gaza, Monday afternoon, a five-missile salvo was
spread out to hit Sderot and also the outlying villages of Gevim,
Shuva, Alumim, Sde Elihahu and Beeri.
The Sderot missile struck a car and killed a woman, the first fatality
of the seven-day Hamas offensive.
http://debka.com/headline.php?hid=4219
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