Seven are dead and dozens wounded in a seemingly coordinated series of attacks on soft military targets in southern Israel, a normally quiet area of the country. Israeli politicians were quick to blame Egypt’s lax authority. They also pinned the attacks on militants from Gaza, and later bombed the strip.
In the first attack, men opened fire on a passenger bus full of soldiers heading home from their base for the weekend. When more Israeli troops rushed to the scene, they drove over a roadside bomb, which exploded. Anti-tank missiles were also fired at a private car.
Reports don’t say whether the dead and wounded are soldiers or civilians, or which of the attacks killed how many people.
Israeli solders tracked down the attackers, and in the ensuing firefight, killed up to four of them. Later in the day, Israeli jets bombed alleged militant groups in Gaza, claiming to have killed six.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the attacks show Egypt’s lack of effective authority, and that “the real source of the terror is in Gaza,” but the governor of South Sinai province denied the attacks originated in Egypt. Curiously, after months of no police or soldiers at all in Sinai following the recent revolts, Egyptian soldiers started patrolling the area just two days ago.
A fourth attack was reported by an Israeli channel near the border with Egypt, but there’s no news on any injuries.
As it becomes clearer and clearer to the establishment in Israel that their post Mubarak influence in the nation is rapidly waning, expect more "incidents" that place the Egyptians and Israeli's on opposing sides.
It sounds like Israel is planning on attacking the Egypt again in the name of defense of course. I suspect it it is other IDF soldiers killing a few of their own to cause a false flag. It is interesting Israel at the same time is looking to invade Lebanon to get the water of the Lavati river and the natural gas fields off the coast. The israel are having their chief puppet Obama cal for a new government in Syria and to bomb Iran. One could get the feeling that Israel could be the real problem in the middle eat. Of course one can look at the old home land and they were loved in Europe so I has to be the arabs.
Yeah a false flag. It could never ever actually be Arabs. Cast Lead was a false flag too. Hamas killed 1000 Arabs in order to stir up hatred against Israel. Nothing it what it is. The entire world is an illusion.
The six are civilians not soldiers and those responsible are not men or attackers, they're terrorists.
The headline of this article reads "Six Killed in Series of Attacks on Israeli Soldiers" and the third paragraph reads "Reports don’t say whether the dead and wounded are soldiers or civilians…"
Is this a joke?
Antiwar is Antisrael. The Arabs are just in their wars of course!
(((Yawn)))
How many IDF soldiers were killed exactly?
Whatever, it was not nearly enough.
More than you have braincells
still much more than you, nazi troll
tomofsnj, that is a stupid, ignorant, and childish comment. No one cares if you suspect it is idf soldiers "killing a few of thier own", but i might suggest you see a psychiatrist.
within seconds the israelies knew it was Hamas what did it
Who else? And actually it was hours between the attack, the report, and the headline.
idf don't kill idf…they are too busy killing arabs….enough with the conspiricy theories
Is this kind of reaction natural? Why don't we empathize with Mexican civilians who are being torn to pieces everyday? Civilians are being killed all over the world everyday and we dont fill these forums with words from our bleeding hearts. We should look within ourselves before we accuse congress of selling out to Israel.
Israel is a foreign country just like Brazil, Indonesia, Finland, Mexico..etc. They dont come crying like babies on our laps so should you!. We are losing a lot of money your way every year so take care of your problemos and stop being a dead weight on uncle sam's neck!!!
"series of attacks on soft military targets in southern Israel"
Why the lies? The targets were not "soft military", they were civillian.
The first target was Egged bus route 392 – a completely civillian bus route, that soldiers often use to return home from bases, just like any other bus route.
The next target was a bus, which was carrying no passengers. A terrorist activated his suicide belt killing himself and the civillian bus driver.
Next, an RPG was shot at a civillian car, killing all four civillians inside, along with the civillian driver of another car.
Only then did soldiers arrive, in persuit of the terrorists.
Stop lying.
Oh yeah, the victim IDF killers were all wearing 'Grandmothers pajamas, huh? But, don't be fooled, the IDF hyena's never fight fair – as evidence by the extremely large number of women, children and infants they murder in the course of their 'self defense.'antics using Merkava Mk IV tanks, US supplied F-16s and AHD-64 Apache helicopters with assorted AGM-117 hellfire antitank missiles..
As for the murder of Jewish civilians – The Paly's are so far behind in the score keeping (Remember Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, winter of 2008 – 1,500 Paly;s murdered, 420 of them children and infants) ?) that if a 1,000 IDF/civilin interlopers were killed – this would catch the Paly's up through Novermber of 1948, LOL!
Where can I send a few thousand rounds to the Palestinian 'freedom fighters' I always enjoy a good dog fight. Like my long ago departed grandmother used to say: "It's not the size of the dog in the fight – It's the size of the fight in the dog. LOL!.