-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Thursday May 10 11:31 AM ET Israeli Missiles Hit Gaza After Border Bomb - (Reuters) By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli missiles slammed into Palestinian targets in Gaza City Thursday in retaliation for a roadside bomb that killed two migrant Romanian laborers repairing an Israeli border fence with the Gaza Strip (news - web sites). Smoke rose from a Palestinian security compound, hit by three surface-to-surface missiles, in the heart of Gaza City. Two missiles punched holes into the offices of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites)'s Fatah (news - web sites) faction near the beach, causing balconies to crumble and extensive damage to two of the building's four floors. Windows in nearby buildings shattered. Hospital officials said five Palestinian policemen and eight civilians were wounded in the two missile attacks. ``We are not afraid of death,'' chanted a crowd outside the security compound, which is surrounded by residential buildings, after the missile strike. The site contains offices of Palestinian Public Security, Military Intelligence and General Intelligence. Witnesses said only a one-story building housing a research department was hit. ``This is a new dangerous escalation. We warn the Israeli government against the continuation of its aggression against the Palestinians. This escalation will destabilize the entire region,'' said Nabil Abu Rdainah, a senior aide to Arafat. Israeli cabinet minister Danny Naveh told Israeli Army Radio: ``We must take such action so that Arafat will understand he cannot achieve anything with violence and will pay a heavy price for it.'' The attack followed a trail of bloodshed this week in which a four-month-old Palestinian girl was killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip and two Israeli schoolboys were found beaten to death in a West Bank cave. ``All parties will pay the price of this mess that will destroy the peace process,'' Abu Rdainah said. ISRAELI TANKS FIRE AT PALESTINIAN VILLAGE Earlier in the day, a roadside bomb killed two Romanian workers repairing the border fence near Kissufim crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip and wounded a third. ``In response to the very serious attack this morning in which two civilians were killed, Israel attacked targets of the 'Tanzim' and the General Security in Gaza City,'' an Israeli military source said, referring to the Romanians. Israel uses the term 'Tanzim' to describe Fatah gunmen. At least 409 Palestinians, 79 Israelis and 13 Israeli Arabs have been killed since a Palestinian uprising for independence erupted in September. The Romanians were among tens of thousands of foreign laborers brought to Israel to replace Palestinian workers banned from entering the Jewish state. Israel says it maintains a closure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip for security reasons. Palestinians consider the edict collective punishment. Photos Reuters Photo After the blast that killed the Romanians, Israeli tanks fired at a nearby Palestinian village, wounding three security officers and a civilian, Palestinian police sources said. The Israeli army could not immediately confirm the report. Israeli bulldozers, the sources said, had advanced 300 meters (yards) into Palestinian-controlled territory near Kissufim to clear land before the bomb went off. PALESTINIANS ACCUSE ISRAEL OF WAGING WAR Palestinian cabinet minister Nabil Shaath called on the international community to protect Palestinian towns and villages from Israeli military incursions. ``There is a declared war by the government of Israel against the Palestinian people,'' Shaath told reporters outside Arafat's Gaza headquarters while the Palestinian president met left-wing Israeli politicians early Thursday. An aide to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites), Raanan Gissin, said the army would ``continue to make these incursions as required by the military situation on the ground in order to prevent attacks against our citizens.'' The army said it destroyed a Palestinian police post late on Wednesday in an area of northern Gaza from which mortar bombs had been fired over the border at a farming village inside Israel and at a Jewish settlement inside the Strip. Israeli troops also destroyed Palestinian buildings in the early hours of Thursday near Rafah on the Egypt-Gaza border, on land claimed by both Palestinian and Israeli sides as officially under their control according to past agreements. Gun battles erupted there Thursday, wounding more than a dozen people. ISRAEL DENIES CASH INJECTION TO SETTLEMENTS Moving to ease tensions with the United States, Sharon's office denied it was allocating a further $360 million to Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The State Department blasted Israel earlier this week after the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz reported the sum would be used to shore up existing settlements. Gissin said that extra funds would be allocated to settlements to beef up security in the face of the seven-month-old Palestinian uprising. But he said the overall budget for settlements had been cut as part of general reductions in government expenditures. He gave no figures. Israel Radio reported Israel intended to allocate around $1 million to purchase armored buses and strengthen security at settlements which have been targeted by Palestinians. Palestinians say Israel's policy of building settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, lands they want for a future state, has fuelled their uprising. Some 200,000 Jewish settlers live in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, home to three million Palestinians. Settlements built on occupied land are illegal under international law. The status of Jewish settlements is to be determined in a final peace treaty. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? 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