Phone calls mean your house is jet target

[spindrifter]

The Times August 19, 2006

From Ian MacKinnon in Gaza

WHEN Mohammad Joudah Marouf got the first call he did not believe it. He was told to evacuate his home because it was about to be bombed. The man repeated in accented Arabic that he was from the Israeli Defence Force.

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Israeli forces deployed a range of new measures denounced as “terror tactics”. Transmissions on Gaza’s radio stations were interrupted by IDF warnings that anyone storing guns in homes would be targeted. Leaflets in Arabic that foretell of dire consequences were also air-dropped.

Yet the Israeli bombs, continual terrifying sonic booms created deliberately by fighter jets, and an average of between 200 and 250 artillery shells fired to stop militants shooting rockets, were just the backdrop for grinding, miserable daily lives for the enclave’s 1.4 million inhabitants.

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The destruction of Gaza’s only power station by Israeli missiles made daily life grimmer. Most families now get six to eight hours of electricity daily. Water flows from taps for only two hours, and sewage treatment reached such critical levels that some effluent was pumped raw into the sea.

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2319379,00.html

[MadMaddie]

1. Ummm...kinda sounds like Iraq....

that plan didn't work too well either....

I am not taking either side on this but....there were far more civilians than the actual criminals....and that is what they are....they are an armed gang...

This goes back to John Kerry saying that it should be police action in some of these situations....if this is true....then we need to de-mystify the word terrorist and call them what they are...they are armed gangs and armed criminals and they should be arrested or eliminated....