There have been reports in Iraq and Afghanistan that terrorists use the tactic of exploding a bomb and then when rescuers some in to help, a second bomb goes off to kill them.
Here’s what our ally in the war against terror did yesterday.
Tuesday’s airstrike occurred just before noon when an Israeli military aircraft fired one missile at a minibus near a busy intersection, killing two gunmen from the radical Islamic Jihad movement. Military officials said the car was transporting homemade missiles of the kind Islamic Jihad has been firing into southern Israel, a near-daily occurrence that has picked up in the past week.
Witnesses said a second missile, fired seven minutes later as a crowd gathered to help the wounded, sprayed shrapnel into the tin-roofed home of Ashraf al-Mughrabi, a 31-year-old barber, who was standing outside his front door. The blast killed him instantly, as well as his 6-year-old son, Maher, and his 13-year-old nephew, Hisham. Nisreen al-Mughrabi, Ashraf’s wife, was severely wounded.
Also killed in the explosion were three Palestinian medics who had rushed to the scene from the Mohammed al-Dura Children’s Hospital a block away after hearing the first blast. Earlier reports indicated that four medics were killed. Several remain hospitalized.
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