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Terrorism

Hamas murders Jew


By Stan Goodenough
June 05, 2008

The "Palestinian" terrorist group Hamas Thursday successfully fired a mortar shell at an Israeli kibbutz, killing a 51-year-old Jewish father of three and sending four other men to the hospital, one seriously wounded and the other moderately hurt by shrapnel.

According to residents of Kibbutz Nir Oz in the western Negev, there was no "red alert" warning before three shells slammed into and around a unprotected factory where Amnon Rosenberg and the other men were working.

After hearing two mortars detonate nearby the men had walked out of the factory and right into the third, factory workers told reporters.

Several bystanders had to be treated for shock.

Hamas claimed credit for the strike, declaring that it would continue to hit "settlement colonies around the Gaza Strip as a response to the nonstop aggression against our people."

Gaza's Palestinian Arabs have increased the number of their successful attacks in the past month.

On May 9 another kibbutznik was killed by a mortar shell, and three days later a 70-year-old Israeli woman had her life snuffed out by a Kassam.

Earlier this week five people were wounded in a rocket attack, while a Katyusha rocket - larger than the more frequently-fired Kassam - was also fired although it did not hurt anyone.

Wednesday saw a Palestinian Arab worker at the Nahal Oz fuel depot wounded by a rocket fired by his own people.

The Olmert government keeps promising that it will "soon" bring an end to the rocket and mortar terrorism, but has hitherto held back from re-entering Gaza en masse.

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