Hamas Attack Was Cover For Kidnap Attempt
by Ezra HaLevi
(IsraelNN.com) The barrage of Kassam rocket fire from Gaza during Independence Day celebrations Tuesday was part of an extensive Hamas-led kidnapping operation, thwarted by the IDF.
Dozens of rockets and mortar shells rained down on the western Negev Tuesday morning from various points inside Palestinian Authority-controlled Gaza, according to PA sources. IDF sources said that only two rockets and eight mortar shells had been identified by Israeli security forces as having landed in Israel.
An IDF spokesman said that only determined IDF action prevented the kidnapping of a soldier during the attack. “Hamas has continued to plan terrorist attacks against the citizens of Israel, cynically using the ceasefire,” read an official IDF statement. implying criticism of the government’s unilateral ceasefire with the terror group.
Hamas’s Izz a-Din al-Kassam Brigades announced that it had fired 30 rockets and 50 mortar shells at Israeli targets as “a reaction to the continued Zionist crimes against our people in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.”
More than 200 rockets have been fired at Israeli towns since the Olmert government agreed to withdraw IDF forces from Gaza once again in November in return for another promise of a ceasefire.
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Hamas Attack Was Cover For Kidnap Attempt
