Shooting Fish in a Barrel - Israeli Assassins at work

Israeli Assassinates 7 Palestinian Militants in Air Strike Against Islamic Jihad

Israeli aircraft fired 2 missiles at a car, killing Islamic Jihad activists in the Jebaliya refugee camp, adjacent to Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, Thursday Oct. 27, 2005.. Hospital officials said at least 7 people were killed and 15 wounded, 4 of them critically. Among those killed were at least two Islamic Jihad members, including Shadi Mohanna, the group's field commander for northern Gaza, and probably Mahmud Jahud (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Now (Friday) also named dead are Rami Assaf, 15, Faiz Badran, 45, who was to run in the forthcoming parliamentary elections as a Fatah member, and Mohammed al-Wahidi, 65. Two more bodies to be identified, one is a boy.

The assassination, on the orders of Ariel Sharon personally, came only hours after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad praised suicide bombings and said Israel should be "wiped off the map." Israeli leaders called for Iran to be expelled from the United Nations for the president's comments, which also upset Tony Blair.... 'completely and totally unacceptable', said UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.... he may have been talking about Israeli State Assassinations or Iranian populist rantings.

In Jenin on the Israeli occupied West Bank, soldiers backed by helicopter gunships arrested Abdel Halim Izzedine, an Islamic Jihad leader, at his home.

"If the Palestinian Authority does not take serious and tangible action against terrorism, there will be no diplomatic progress and that would be a pity. In such a situation, I will not meet with Abu Mazen,"

...... Sharon said after meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Jerusalem.

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