Posted by
InchDeep on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:16:56 PM
The title of an article from TheNews.com is Palestinian ‘traitor’ sentenced to death by firing squad. But, notice is takes twelve paragraphs, of an anti-Israel screed, before we hear about the hero who helped Israel eliminate terrorists. Terrorist who hide behind there women and children to boot.
Israel kills mother, four children in Gaza raid
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
The massacre is part of Israel’s attempts to destroy any regional or
international effort to lift the siege and end violence: Haniyeh
BEIT
HANUN, Gaza Strip: Four children, aged one to five, their mother and an
activist were killed in Israeli operations in Gaza on Monday as
Palestinian factions headed to Egypt for talks on a possible truce.
The
four siblings—aged one, three, four and five—were killed when a tank
shell hit their home in the town of Beit Hanun, and their mother died
later of her wounds, doctors at the Kamal Radwan hospital said.
“I
left the house just moments before to look for one of my children. I
heard the sound of the explosion,” said 70-year-old father Ahmed Abu
Maateq. “They had been eating breakfast and my wife had been holding
our youngest child in her hands,” he said as he looked down at the
blood, flesh and spilled milk splashed across the wreckage.
His
wife and six children were in the courtyard in their pyjamas when the
missile slammed into the front door of the house, he said. The
remaining two children were hospitalised. “I hope to God that the same
thing that happened to me happens to whoever fired that missile at my
house, that what happened to my wife and children happens to his
family,” Abu Maateq said, his eyes red with pain and anger.
Three
Hamas fighters and another Palestinian were wounded in an air strike in
northern Gaza later in the day. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak
vowed the military would continue to target Hamas across the Gaza
Strip, and blamed the Islamists for civilian deaths.
Hamas
meanwhile lashed out at Israel, saying the strike undermined talks in
Egypt aimed at securing a ceasefire in Gaza. Senior Hamas leader Ismail
Haniyeh said the “massacre” was part of Israel’s “constant attempts to
destroy any regional or international effort to lift the siege and end
the violence.”
Palestinian militants fired at least 13 rockets
at southern Israel, damaging a house in the hard-hit town of Sderot
near the border, the army said. No one was wounded in the attack. At
least 443 people, most of them Palestinians, have been killed since the
restart of formal peace talks under US auspices at an international
conference in November, according to an AFP tally.
The latest
clashes came as delegations from several Palestinian factions headed to
Cairo to discuss a possible ceasefire with Israel after the Islamist
Hamas movement which rules the Gaza Strip held similar talks in Egypt.
Egypt
has been serving as a go-between in truce negotiations as Israel
refuses any direct contacts with organisations it considers terror
groups. Members of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) and three
smaller leftist groups crossed into Egypt via the Rafah border crossing
with Gaza on Monday.
Islamic Jihad, which has carried out
numerous rocket attacks on southern Israel, planned to send a
delegation from Damascus to Cairo on Monday night. Egyptian
intelligence chief Omar Suleiman will host the factions on Tuesday and
Wednesday in a bid to draft a common position on the truce proposal.
Meanwhile
the UN Relief and Works Agency said it will resume distributing food
aid to some 650,000 Palestinian refugees in Gaza on Tuesday after a
four-day interruption caused by fuel shortages.
Meanwhile, a
Palestinian man was sentenced to death by firing squad on Monday for
collaborating with Israeli intelligence, according to the head of
security services in the West Bank town of al-Khalil.
“The
military court sentenced sergeant Imad Mahmud Saad, 24 ... to the
firing squad after finding him guilty of treason and of transmitting
information to occupation forces,” Brigadier-General Samih al-Seifi
told AFP.
The information Saad gave to the Israelis “led to
the death of four wanted people, the destruction of a house and the
arrest of several more Palestinians,” Seifi added. The death sentence
decree must now go to Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, who has the
power to pardon the prisoner.