Six Palestinians killed in West Bank, Gaza attacks

[joeblow]

Israeli troops have killed six Palestinians - three in the Gaza Strip and three in the West Bank.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8430688.stm



The Israeli military said three Palestinians suspected of trying to infiltrate from Gaza were killed in an air strike near the Erez crossing.

Separately, Israeli forces said they killed three men in the West Bank city of Nablus who are suspected of shooting dead a Jewish settler two days ago.

It is the largest number of deaths in a day since the Gaza conflict a year ago.

Palestinian sources in Nablus say two of those killed were militants from the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the militant faction of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party.

The faction was one of two groups which said they killed the settler, a father-of-seven - the first fatal shooting of an Israeli by militants in the occupied West Bank for eight months.

Eyewitnesses said the Israeli raid began in the early hours of the morning and lasted for several hours.

They said there had not been a raid like this in Nablus for about a year and a half, the BBC's Bethany Bell reports from Jerusalem.

An Israeli army spokesman said a statement on the raid would be released soon.

The violence came a day before the anniversary of the Gaza war that killed some 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis.

[scorpio]

NPR Radio reported this morning that Israeli soldies shot 3 Palestinians in Gaza because they would not step away from the border with Israel.
Imagine the outrage if this happened on the southern border of the USA?
Yep - God's chosen people once again...