From the NSP News Service: Here's another example of just how disgusting Israeli policies regarding Palestinians happen to be. We wish all good luck to those in Gaza, to Hamas, to Hezbollah, and to any group or individual opposing shameful Zionist policies!
-- Dr. Jacques Pluss, Commander, NSP. Heil Hitler!
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel carried
out airstrikes on militant targets in the Gaza Strip early Sunday after a
rocket attack, the military said, as the country's foreign minister
suggested it consider reoccupying the Hamas-ruled territory to stop the
increasing rocket fire.
The
military said it targeted 12 locations in Gaza on Sunday, including
concealed rocket launchers, weapons manufacturing sites and what it
called "terror activity" sites. The airstrikes were in retaliation for
six rockets from Gaza that struck Israel the previous evening. Two of
the rockets hit a factory in the town of Sderot, setting it ablaze.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said limited operations against militants in Gaza only strengthen Hamas.
"The
alternative is clear," Lieberman said on Army Radio. "Either with each
round we attack terror infrastructure and they shoot, or we go to full
occupation."
Israel
unilaterally pulled out of the Gaza Strip in 2005, but continues to
control access to the territory by air, land and sea. Israeli leaders
have said the pullout cleared the way for Hamas to seize control of the
territory two years later and turn it into a base for rocket attacks on
Israel, but there has been little support for reoccupying the territory.
On Friday, an Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinian
militants in Gaza who were members of the Tawhid Brigades, an
ultraconservative Islamic militant group unaffiliated with Hamas,
according to Palestinian security officials and militants from the
group. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were
not authorized to brief reporters and the militants because they operate
underground.
The security
officials had initially said the two fighters were members of a militant
group allied with Hamas that often fires rockets at Israel.
Since
the beginning of June, over 60 rockets have been launched from Gaza
toward Israel — more than four times the amount in May — and 28 of the
rockets hit Israeli territory, the military said. The crude, makeshift
devices rarely wound anyone, but they have caused damage and sown panic
in communities along the frontier.
Also
on Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he has asked
Israeli authorities to consider outlawing a Muslim group in Israel,
following calls in support of abducting Israeli soldiers at a
demonstration in an Arab-Israeli town.
"In
many cases, those behind such calls and demonstrations are from the
northern branch of the Islamic Movement," Netanyahu said. "It constantly
preaches against the state of Israel and its people publicly identify
with terrorist organizations such as Hamas."
Israel
has arrested the movement's leader, Raed Salah, on a number of
occasions, banning him from Jerusalem and accusing him of incitement.
Salah has called for a third intifada, or Palestinian uprising, against
Israel.
In 2003, Israel
jailed Salah, an Israeli citizen, for more than two years, saying his
organization funneled money to Hamas, which at the time was frequently
carrying out deadly suicide bombings in Israel
