By Stan Goodenough
Dec 18, 2007
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak Tuesday warned his countrymen to brace for retaliatory strikes after at least 13 "Palestinian" terrorists were successfully taken out over a 14 hour period beginning Monday night.
The Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist organization has threatened to unleash a wave of 'suicide' attacks against Israeli targets.
In Gaza on Monday night, five men from two Kassam rocket-launching cells were killed in two Israeli Airforce missile strikes. A third IAF strike sent three more terrorists into eternity hell as they emerged from a Gaza mosque where they had been praying.
Two members of the Hamas organization, which has controlled Gaza since ousting the PLO earlier this year were killed in a missile hit in Khan Younis.
Among the murderers dealt with was a PIJ "military commander" in Jenin, and another senior terrorist in Gaza who had been on Israel's wanted list for nine years, as well as a man described as a "master rocket maker."
A barrage of Kassam rockets was launched at Israeli targets in the Negev after the first two strikes, but no injuries were reported.
In an email sent to reporters the PIJ said the killing of its men would "open the door wide to a wave of martyrdom operations."
The "Palestinian" weapon of choice is called a "suicide" bomber because of his or her willingness to die in the act of killing Jews - the highest service a Muslim can pay to his/her god.