Palestinian snipers fired on farmers and, well, anyone else within sight of their scopes. Gee. Wonder where they got the high-powered sniper rifles and scopes?
In any case, they almost hit an Israeli minister. And they’re claiming to be al Qaeda. I’m calling bullshit on the intentional targeting of the minister. Unless they had his agenda, they didn’t know he’d be there. They got lucky.
Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter’s personal assistant was lightly to moderately injured Friday by gunshots fired by Palestinians at the minister’s entourage visiting the Nizmit hill near Kibbutz Nir Am in southern Israel.
“The army of the nation”, a new organization affiliated with al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the sniper fire. Hamas’ military wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, also took responsibility for the attack along with an unknown organization called “the al-Aqsa defenders.”
Abu Ubaida, a spokesman for Hamas’ military wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, said Friday afternoon that the internal security minister was the target of the attack.
“An organization sniper fired at a group of Israelis, including Minister Dichter. The Mujahideen ambushed Minister Dichter’s entourage and began firing at it, injuring the minister’s assistant. The operation was targeted at the minister himself,” he said.
It was not. It was targeting large groups of people in the hopes of hitting one. Again, luck.
The minister was hosting a group of managers from the Canada-Israel Committee (CIC), a pro-Israel lobby group, who visited the observation tower in the Gaza vicinity area in order to examine the threat on Israel, receiving a live demonstration. According to estimates, a Palestinian sniper fired the shots.
The observation tower, which overlooks the northern Gaza Strip from Ashkelon to the al-Bureij and al-Marazi refugee camp in the heart of the Strip, is considered a popular hiking site.
Earlier, Palestinian fired at farmers in Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha. There were no reports of injuries. Some 30 youths from the Kibbutz Movement arrived at the area Friday morning in order to assist the farmers in their work. Large army forces secured the activity.
Luck. Large groups, luck, and lies. Typical Palestinian bullshit. And you have to love the AP spin on events:
The attack was the second in recent weeks in which a Dichter aide has been hurt in an attack. In late February, a bodyguard was lightly wounded in a rocket assault on southern Israel as he prepared for the minister to visit.
Gaza militants have bombarded Israeli border communities with rockets since late 2001, killing 13 people, severely disrupting daily life and provoking sometimes harsh Israeli retaliation. With Egyptian mediation, however, there has been a lull in violence in recent weeks.
Separately, Gaza militants Friday opened fire on farmers working in the fields of a communal farm, or kibbutz, near northern Gaza, Ein Hashlosha. No one was hurt.
Three months ago, an Ecuadorean volunteer at the kibbutz was killed by Palestinian sniper fire.
So apparently, a rocket attack and three sniper attacks, resulting in two injuries and one death, is a “lull” in violence.
The AFP considers rocket attacks part of the “truce“:
For nearly a month, Israel and armed groups in Gaza appear to be observing a tacit truce. That has led to a drastic drop in the number of rockets fired and of Israeli attacks against the Palestinian enclave run by Hamas.
Uh-huh. A “tacit” truce, in which rocket fire only drops, but does not stop. And those are Israeli “attacks,” not operations aimed at stopping the rocket fire and terror attacks. No, there’s no anti-Israel media bias. None at all.
Believe it or not, Reuters was the most evenhanded of the major services. Check the sky for flying pigs.
Okay.
I need some distances here. Anyone know the yards/meters we’re talking here for these shots?
As a long distance shooter I don’t hunt, the only thing I punch holes in is paper.
But with my .308 I could easily hit a human sized target at 800 yards.
And with my .50 I could extend that out to 1,200 yards.
Now those are “easy” shots. I don’t shoot every weekend as I used to, and with practice could go even farther.
I’m assuming these Terrorists are shooting the 7.62X54 rimmed. Which could easily out shoot my .308, and probably do 950 with a few days practice and “good wind”.
If these people are in that range there is NO way you have a trained sniper shooting at a person.
You have a standard mo’ shooting as Meryl states “at any large group”.
Or a BADLY trained rifleman taking pot shots, and he got LUCKY.
Israel needs to slap a few counter snipers in that area. They see a scope pop up, zap it.
Nothing like a REAL shooter to make them keep their heads AND guns out of sight.
What a bunch of sick, sad, F—S, to shoot at civilians. I hope Israel stomps out these fanatics in my lifetime.