Pali Car Inspection

You can just never get enough of these.

Israeli air strike kills 2 militants in Gaza Strip

GAZA, Aug 4 (Reuters) - An Israeli air strike killed two Palestinian militants in the southern Gaza Strip on Saturday, ambulance crews and local residents said.

The Israeli military said the strike, which it described as a joint operation with the Shin Bet internal security service, targeted a truck carrying a shipping container with an explosives-laden vehicle hidden inside.

The Israeli attack, a military spokeswoman said in Tel Aviv, foiled "an imminent terrorist strike on Israel".

Which brings us to the ubiquitous car swarm.

Palestinians inspect a destroyed car after it was targeted by an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza. ... REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

Here we have the remains of the day.

Palestinian carry the body of a member of the Islamic Jihad movement who was killed during clashes in Gaza. ... REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

Make that former member.

Sadly, some made it out alive.

Wounded Palestinians lie in a hospital following an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza. Wounded ... said. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

This Ibraheem Abu Mustafa sure does get around.

IAF Whacks Six Palis

First they put the fire out.


Then comes the car swarm. Those Reuters photographers are always on the spot.

6 Palestinians dead in 2 IAF strikes

Six Palestinians were killed Saturday evening in two separate airstrikes in the Gaza Strip. At around 8:30 pm, an Israel Air Force fired a missile which killed three members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. One of the casualties was identified as Salah Kopah, a senior group member in the Strip.

The Palestinians reported that the three casualties were members of the Shahid Ayman Jouda cells, which took part in a terror attack carried out recently by the Islamic Jihad in Kissufim. The three were hit near a welding workshop, where they were apparently manufacturing ammunition.

Earlier, three members of the al-Quds Brigades, the Islamic Jihad's military wing, were killed as an IAF aircraft fired at least one missile at a car in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis. The airstrike took place at around 5:30 pm.

A spokesman for the al-Quds Brigades told Ynet that all three casualties were members of the organization, contradicting the Palestinians' initial report, according to which the three were members of the Salah al-Din Brigades, the Popular Resistance Committees military wing.

Among the casualties were Muhammad al-Raei, a prominent member of the organization who fired an RPG missile at an IDF armored personnel carrier at the Philadelphi route on May 2004. An IDF officer and four troops were killed in the incident.