Palestinians kill 2 Israelis in raid

[sabbat hunter]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/04/09/israel.gaza/index.html

The militants entered Israel at the Nahal Oz border crossing, just outside Gaza City, a police spokesman said. Nahal Oz crossing is the main transit area for fuel supplies into Gaza.

The Popular Resistance Committees, Islamic Jihad and Fatah's al-Mujahedeen Brigades claimed responsibility for the operation, but Israel put the blame squarely on Gaza's Hamas leadership.

"This attack on the main energy supplier for the Gaza Strip demonstrates Hamas' total disregard for the well-being of the civilian population in Gaza," Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said.


A source in the Popular Resistance Committees said the aim of the joint operation was to abduct an Israeli soldier.

The attack happened hours after a predawn clash between the Israeli military and Palestinian militants in southern Gaza, which left an Israeli soldier and a Hamas militant dead.

Of course it was to kidnap an Israeli soldier, because I would automatically go to a civilian village to do so.

How should Israel respond to this latest terrorist attack?

[msmcghee]

1. Well, I guess it possibly was a planned attack. n/t

[sabbat hunter]

2. Does it matter

if the attack was planned or not?

Civilians were deliberately targeted and killed.

[msmcghee]

3. Only in the sense that in this particular . .

. . attack, your article seems to indicate that it may have been an attempt to kidnap a soldier. That's ominous and more startling than a couple of guys who got their jihad on. Attempts to kidnap IDF personnel have caused several of the flareups in recent years and was also the motivation behind the Hizb'allah attack into Israel that started the '06 Lebanon War.