Friday, February 15, 2008

Blast kills senior Gaza militant

Ayman al-Fayed, an Islamic Jihad commander, was killed in his Gaza Strip home from an explosion, though the cause of the blast is unknown. It flattened the Bureij refugee camp, killing at least six people, two of which were al-Fayed’s children, and wounding more than 40 others. An Islamic Jihad spokesman has vowed revenge on Israel even though Israel had no knowledge of the raid being carried out.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7247983.stm

This is bad news for Israel, regardless of whether or not they actually were the ones that carried out the attack. Israel was possibly blamed due to its announcements earlier in the month that they were going to increase efforts to kill militant leaders in Gaza. Now, the Islamic Jihadists are preparing to attack their enemy with full force.

1 comment:

Mike Miller said...

Good jobs of summarizing and putting into context. Well-written. Vary your source of information. There are plenty of sources for Middle East news.