[Via... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . . ----- Original Message ----- From: Downwithcapitalism <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 12:52 AM Subject: [downwithcapitalism] FW: Israel bombs Gaza City MSNBC; BBC. 11 May 2001. Israel bombs Gaza City. Combined reports. Israel has launched devastating missile strikes on the Palestinian security headquarters in Gaza city, the most serious escalation in the bloody cycle of violence in recent days. Three missiles hit the Suraya building, the headquarters of the Palestinian police, security and intelligence in Gaza, wounding at least 13 people, three critically, according to Palestinian hospital officials. Two other missiles struck the building housing the headquarters of Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement. Israeli military sources say the attack - the first on Mr Arafat's security HQ in seven months of fighting - was in response to a roadside bomb that killed two Romanian workers working on a border fence on Thursday morning. Following the missile strikes, Palestinian gunmen and Israeli troops battled late into the evening near Rafah, close to the Egypt-Gaza border. At least 12 Palestinians have been wounded there since fighting flared on Thursday morning. Exchanges of gunfire were also reported at several points in the West Bank. Reports from the centre of Gaza city described policemen fleeing the walled security compound and ambulances rushing inside, while rockets crashed down sending smoke billowing skywards. Later, hundreds of angry Palestinian demonstrators gathered outside the buildings that had been hit. Palestinian officials condemned what they called a "war of terror" against their people. The blast near the town of Kissufim on the Israel-Gaza border which killed the two Romanian workers, and seriously injured a third, prompted the Israeli army to burn farmland and destroy a police station nearby in its fifth incursion into Palestinian-controlled territory in two days. The subsequent Israeli bombardment is reported also to have hit a nearby Palestinian village, wounding three security officers and one civilian. More than 400 Palestinians and about 80 Israelis have been killed in more than seven months of violence between the two sides. "We are not afraid of death," chanted a crowd outside the security compound, which is surrounded by residential buildings, after the missile strike. Palestinian Planning Minister Nabil Shaath said Arafat was not harmed in the attack, which he called "a war of terror Israel has declared on the Palestinians." SPAM TO FOLLOW Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
