Terrorists opened fire on IDF and civilian vehicles on the Kissufim road, just west of the Mor Bridge and the Gush Katif junction at 9:40 PM last night. The attack targeted the main road leading to the Gush Katif cluster of Jewish communities in Gaza.
One victim, an IDF officer, is in moderate to serious condition with a chest wound. A second victim is in moderate condition after being shot in a leg. Four others were lightly wounded in the attack and were transported to the trauma unit of Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva.
The shooting attack also caused a civilian vehicle to crash, lightly bruising a small child. The child’s mother was treated for shock.
The Kissufim crossing had been reopened just one hour prior to the attack after being closed for several hours following an earlier shooting attack. Terrorists had fired at an Israeli vehicle traveling on the Kissufim Route. Soldiers killed one terrorist and another managed to escape.
Earlier Wednesday evening, dozens of Gush Katif farmers traveled to Be’er Sheva, to the IDF’s Southern District Command Headquarters, hoping to meet with Southern District Commander Major-General Dan Harel. The farmers are calling on the army to take the appropriate measures to halt the terror attacks, which of late have been increasing in frequency.
“We came here to wake up Major-General Dan Harel and Defense Minister Sha’ul Mofaz, so that they will begin to do something to improve the awful situation in Gush Katif,” demonstrator Shoshi Slutzky from Ganei Tal told Arutz-7. “I must also stress that when the residents of Sderot [within Israel’s pre-1967 borders] were being targeted with Kassam missiles, the army went in and took care of the problem. We are merely asking for the same treatment and demanding equal regard for our lives. There is a clear discrimination between Jewish blood – that of Sderot residents and that of the residents of Gush Katif.”
Slutzky said political considerations were leading the government to abandon the lives of the Jews of Gaza. “Nearly 5,000 mortar shells have fallen on Gush Katif in the past four years and the army is not doing anything. Only this week, IDF Radio’s military correspondent Carmella Menashe reported that the IDF is receiving orders from the political echelons not to do anything. It shocks me that the Jewish State is just letting Jews be murdered for all sorts of reasons – to find favor in the eyes of men like [Egyptian President Hosni] Mubarak, [convicted terrorist murderer and PA Prime Ministerial candidate Marwan] Barghouti and those like them. Our lives are considered worthless.”
One victim, an IDF officer, is in moderate to serious condition with a chest wound. A second victim is in moderate condition after being shot in a leg. Four others were lightly wounded in the attack and were transported to the trauma unit of Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva.
The shooting attack also caused a civilian vehicle to crash, lightly bruising a small child. The child’s mother was treated for shock.
The Kissufim crossing had been reopened just one hour prior to the attack after being closed for several hours following an earlier shooting attack. Terrorists had fired at an Israeli vehicle traveling on the Kissufim Route. Soldiers killed one terrorist and another managed to escape.
Earlier Wednesday evening, dozens of Gush Katif farmers traveled to Be’er Sheva, to the IDF’s Southern District Command Headquarters, hoping to meet with Southern District Commander Major-General Dan Harel. The farmers are calling on the army to take the appropriate measures to halt the terror attacks, which of late have been increasing in frequency.
“We came here to wake up Major-General Dan Harel and Defense Minister Sha’ul Mofaz, so that they will begin to do something to improve the awful situation in Gush Katif,” demonstrator Shoshi Slutzky from Ganei Tal told Arutz-7. “I must also stress that when the residents of Sderot [within Israel’s pre-1967 borders] were being targeted with Kassam missiles, the army went in and took care of the problem. We are merely asking for the same treatment and demanding equal regard for our lives. There is a clear discrimination between Jewish blood – that of Sderot residents and that of the residents of Gush Katif.”
Slutzky said political considerations were leading the government to abandon the lives of the Jews of Gaza. “Nearly 5,000 mortar shells have fallen on Gush Katif in the past four years and the army is not doing anything. Only this week, IDF Radio’s military correspondent Carmella Menashe reported that the IDF is receiving orders from the political echelons not to do anything. It shocks me that the Jewish State is just letting Jews be murdered for all sorts of reasons – to find favor in the eyes of men like [Egyptian President Hosni] Mubarak, [convicted terrorist murderer and PA Prime Ministerial candidate Marwan] Barghouti and those like them. Our lives are considered worthless.”