Geez, guys, how could you miss?
The IAF fired a missile late Thursday that exploded close to the house of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in the Shati refugee camp next to Gaza City, Palestinian security officials said.
They said the missile hit a tin shack where Haniyeh’s guards sleep, but it was empty and no one was hurt.
The IDF said it hit a building used by Hamas in the camp, and the location of Haniyeh’s house was incidental.
What a waste of a missile. Unless, of course, the IDF was, oh, I don’t know, sending a message.
I wonder if they wrote Haniyeh’s name on the missile. Now that would have been a message, indeed.
By hitting an empty shack, the message was that Israel still pulls her punches even as a volley of Kassams fell on Israel yesterday.
Turning Haniyeh into meat paste was the only message worth sending.
Comment by Lil Mamzer — 05/25/2007 @ 6:25 am
Maybe the missile was “crude” and “homemade.”
Comment by Eric J — 05/25/2007 @ 6:34 am
Maybe it was a reward to the guards for having attacked Fatah. Then again, maybe the guards were really Israeli “agents” who had infiltrated Hamas.
Comment by Sabba Hillel — 05/25/2007 @ 8:35 am