Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Firefights in Nablus
More on IDF operations inside the camp that the International Solidarity Movement was trying to protect: Palestinian killed as IDF hunts for Hamas cell in Nablus raid
Palestinian eyewitnesses identified the man as 35-year-old Adib Salim, and added that he was disabled, unarmed, and not involved in the fighting. Palestinian sources said Salim was, however, a Hamas member and the brother of Jamal Salim, a top Hamas commander killed by the Israel Defense Forces.
Family members told Reuters that Salim had been disabled in a 2001 Israel Air Force strike in Nablus.
Israel Radio quoted military sources as saying Salim was killed during a firefight between soldiers from the Heruv Battalion and three armed militants...
...On Tuesday, IDF Staff Sergeant Ben-Zion Henman, whose unit was participating in the Nablus operation, was shot and killed by Palestinian gunmen...
I'm told a weapons lab has been uncovered in a home in Ein Beit Ilma during the operation.
Update: IDF exposes arms, explosive materials in Nablus house
The arms were detonated in a controlled explosion.
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You may remember a series of posts back in September concerning the best efforts of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM -- Rachel Corrie's outfit) to block IDF operations in Ein Beit Ilma (see related posts at bottom). The IDF has... Read More
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