Israeli warplanes targets cabinet building in Gaza on Sunday, Israelis admit death of 6 soldiers on Saturday

Israeli warplanes targets cabinet building in Gaza

[ 02/03/2008 - 12:52 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

In the framework of Israeli calls for targeting official institutions, the Israeli warplanes fired at dawn Sunday air-to-ground missiles at the headquarters of the Palestinian cabinet in western Gaza inflicting big material damage but one of the missiles did not explode.

In an exclusive statement to PIC, Taher Al-Nunu, the spokesman for the caretaker government, stated that the Israeli occupation wants to topple this government in order to replace it with a "puppet government".

Avigdor Lieberman, the head of the extreme-right Yisrael Beitenu (Israel our home) party, had urged the Israeli government to destroy all civil and financial institutions in Gaza including banks and post offices in order to cripple Hamas's ability to administrate Gaza.

The Israeli occupation forces have resumed at dawn Sunday air strikes on Gaza, where Israeli warplanes destroyed the house of a Hamas member in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, in addition to a civilian car in Jabaliya, northern Gaza, which led to the death of a Palestinian citizen called Khalil Izzaddin and the injury of other.

Israeli media outlets were allowed Saturday to publish some news concerning the ferocious fighting in the northern Gaza Strip, where it revealed that the Palestinian resistance spearheaded by the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, managed to kill six veteran soldiers of the invading IOF troops in one stroke and wounded 22 others during rocket attacks and armed clashes.

Israeli TV channels also unveiled that the Qassam fighters were about to kidnap Israeli soldiers if it were not for Israeli warplanes which appeared suddenly and started to fire intensively at them.

The Qassam Brigades announced on the same day that one of its groups managed in the morning to ambush the invading IOF troops east of Jabaliya and detonate an explosive device as they approached a farm which inflicted a number of deaths and injuries in their ranks.

The Brigades added that after the ambush, the group also successfully killed three of the invading troops and wounded many others.

The Brigades continue to ward off the IOF troops which tries to infiltrate into east Jabaliya and east of the Tofah neighborhood, where the QB fired dozens of rockets and mortar shells at them.

In another context, hundreds of Israeli settlers of the coastal Ashkelon settlement went on marches on Saturday night in protest at the failure of IOF troops in preventing or decreasing rocket attacks on their settlement which were intensified lately by the Palestinian resistance despite the large-scale military operations against Gaza.

The Ashkelon protesters, who were joined by Sderot settlers, burnt tires, blocked the movement of vehicles on the main street, chanted slogans against Israeli premier Ehud Olmert and his internal security minister Avi Dichter, and demanded the resignation of war minister Ehud Barak.

For its part, the leadership of the internal front in the Israeli army called for opening the fortified public shelters in Ashkelon before settlers.

In retaliation to the ongoing Israel aggression on Gaza, the Qassam Brigades has announced in a communiqué received by the PIC that its fighters managed at dawn Sunday to detonate a homemade anti-tank landmine in an Israeli tank east of Jabal Al-Kashif in Jabaliya, northern Gaza Strip.

In earlier communiqués received by the PIC, the Brigades took the credit for firing nine homemade rockets at night Saturday, despite the intensive flying of Israeli warplanes, on the Israeli Kfar Saad settlement, the Kissufim military post and a group of Israeli vehicles in the Tofah neighborhood.

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