TENSIONS IN the Gaza Strip reached 'an unprecedented high' yesterday as Palestinians prepared for an expected Israeli military onslaught. In an overnight operation three members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad were killed at the border fence while trying to plant bombs along a security road on the outskirts of Gaza city. At yesterday's funeral of two of them, Abdel Khalim Al-Sayoumi and Said Helas, thousands of demonstrators took to the street, shooting guns in the air and throwing hand grenades into an open field vowing revenge against Israel. Israeli tanks were massing at the border, fresh from a huge exercise to practise reoccupying the strip, while the Palestinians were making preparations of their own. Militants were flooding into the border town of Beit Hanoun, building bunkers, stretching tarpaulins across streets to block Israeli reconnaissance drones and planting roadside bombs.... http://observer.guardian.co.uk censor News |
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