Four Hamas members were injured on Friday morning by an accidental explosion at one of the group's military training sites west of the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
Spokesperson for the Gaza Ministry of Health Ashraf al-Qidra told Ma'an that the four individuals were taken to hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip for treatment.
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Somali militants execute 2 for espionage: witness
Jun. 7 5:49 AM EDT
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A resident of a Somali town says that al-Qaida-linked militants have killed two men by firing squad for allegedly spying for the Somali government and the African Union military force.
Palestinian Man Injures 8 at Israeli Club, Police Say
A Palestinian man from the occupied West Bank wounded eight Israelis early Monday when he hijacked a taxi in Tel Aviv, drove it to a packed nightclub and ran over police officers at a security checkpoint before emerging to stab several bystanders.
A police spokeswoman said the man, who is 21 and from Nablus, shouted “God is great!” in Arabic before being subdued by police officers. One officer was seriously hurt and three others were wounded, as was the taxi driver.
The police said they believed the attack was an act of political terror. The Palestinian Authority condemned it.
Terrorist attacks, which became relatively common in Israel during the Palestinian uprising in 2002 and 2003, have been rare in Tel Aviv in the last few years, for a combination of reasons, including the renunciation of violence by the West Bank leadership, the construction of a security barrier by Israel and intensive Israeli military activity against militant cells.
Hodaya Akrish and Na'ama Asher won a prize for their project on prestate underground members sent to the gallows by the British Mandate authorities. Shira Kadmon and Shifra Ganiram, both from the militant girls school in Ma'aleh Levona in the West Bank, won a prize for a paper on the Tuvia Chen-Zion group, which split from Lehi.Oh, that was a Ha-Ha-HaAretz report.
Dave’s graduation from the Basic School at Quantico (which the grandmother referred to silently as Guantánamo) took place this spring...In a filled auditorium, a colonel welcomed them. He referred to himself as a teacher and the trainees as students. Quantico was a “campus.” The course was divided into segments: leadership; academics; military skills. The men were being trained not to be soldiers or marines but “warfighters.”
The Supreme Court barred a Palestinian activist on Tuesday from traveling to Amsterdam to receive a human rights prize. The activist, Shawan Jabarin, the director of the Palestinian organization Al Haq, had hoped to travel to the Netherlands to receive the Geuzen Medal on Friday on behalf of his group. A court spokeswoman, Ayelet Filo, said the court ruled that he was involved with terrorist organizations. In 1985, Mr. Jabarin was convicted of working for a militant group and served nine months in prison. He denies the charges.
Israel has barred Jabarin from traveling to the ceremony in the Netherlands next week on security grounds. Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor says Jabarin is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which Israel considers a terror group...Shawan says he briefly joined the group as a young university student years ago and has not been a member since then.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) (Arabic: الجبهة الشعبية لتحرير فلسطين, al-Jabhah al-Sha`biyyah li-Taḥrīr Filasṭīn) is a Marxist-Leninist, secular, nationalist Palestinian political and paramilitary organization, founded in 1967. It has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming the Palestine Liberation Organization (the largest being Fatah).
The PFLP has generally taken a hard line on Palestinian national aspirations, opposing the more moderate stance of Fatah. It has been designated as a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union.[1] It opposed the Oslo Accords and was for a long time opposed to the idea of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but in 1999 came to an agreement with the PLO leadership regarding negotiations with Israel. The military wing of the PFLP is called the Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades.
The PFLP gained notoriety in the late 1960s and early 1970s for a series of armed attacks and aircraft hijackings, including on non-Israeli targets:Gee, that's sound more terrorist than militant?
* The hijacking of an El Al flight from Rome to Lod airport in Israel on 23 July 1968.
* Gunmen opened fire on an El Al passenger jet in Athens about to take off for New York on 26 December 1968, killing one Israeli mechanic;
* An attack on El Al passengers jet at Zürich airport on 18 February 1969, killing the co-pilot and wounding the pilot;
* The bombing of a Jerusalem supermarket on 20 February 1969, killing two Israelis and wounding twenty others;
* The hijacking of a TWA flight from Los Angeles to Damascus on 29 August 1969 by a PFLP cell led by Leila Khaled, who became the PFLP's most famous recruit. Two Israeli passengers were held for 44 days;
* The bombing, with a barometric pressure device, of a Swissair flight bound for Israel, killing 47, on 21 February 1970; for details see Swissair Flight 330.
* The bombing of the synagogue of ULIF, located on rue Copernic, Paris, on October 3, 1980, during holiday services.
* The 21 October, 2001 assassination of Israeli Minister for Tourism Rehavam Zeevi by Hamdi Quran, the only Israeli politician to have been assassinated in the current intifada.
* A suicide bombing in a pizzeria in Karnei Shomron, on the West Bank on 16 February 2002, killing three Israeli settlers.
* A suicide bombing in the bus station at Geha Junction in Petah Tikva on 25 December, 2003 which killed 4 Israelis.
* A suicide bombing in the Carmel Market in Tel Aviv on 1 November, 2004 , which killed 3 Israeli civilians.
A fugitive British militant linked to an alleged UK plot to use liquid bombs to blow up transatlantic airliners has been killed in Pakistan, reports say.
Pakistani media said Rashid Rauf, born in Birmingham, was killed in a US air strike in North Waziristan, a haven for militants and the Taleban.
Mr Rauf, on the run after escaping from Pakistani custody, was seen as a link between the UK plotters and Pakistan.
...Rashid Rauf was arrested in Pakistan on 9 August 2006, at the request of US authorities, who feared he was about to disappear into the remote north-west of the country. One day later authorities in the UK and the US implemented strict security measures at airports, fearing possible bomb attacks.
Hundreds of flights were delayed at airports around the world with massive disruption at major UK terminals and in the US, amid security service fears that militants were planning to mix liquids into lethal explosives.
Terrorism charges against the Briton were eventually dropped but he remained under detention in Pakistan as a "preventative measure"...
...The US says the insurgents use the territory to launch attacks against coalition forces in Afghanistan.
Palestinian medical workers say a member of a militant group has died in an explosion in the Gaza Strip. Another militant is said to have been seriously injured in the incident, which happened near a refugee camp.
Witnesses say the blast was caused by an Israeli air attack, but the Israeli army has denied involvement.
At least seven people are reported to have been killed following a raid by Palestinian militants near a border crossing between Gaza and Israel.
Two Israeli workers were killed as a fuel depot at the Nahal Oz crossing in northern Gaza came under attack. The Israeli army said at least two militants were killed as they fled. Another three Palestinians were killed by Israeli missiles, reports said.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: March 27, 2008
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli soldiers on Wednesday arrested a Hamas militant suspected by Israel of directing the bloodiest suicide bombing of the Palestinian uprising, an attack that killed 30 people and wounded 143 others during a Passover celebration in 2002.
Israel Passover bomb suspect held
Israeli security forces have arrested a key suspect in a suicide bombing which killed 30 mainly elderly people at a festival meal in 2002. The Israeli military said Hamas commander Omar Jabar was detained early on Wednesday at a village in the Tulkarm area of the West Bank.
They said he had planned the attack, in the Israeli resort of Netanya, and dispatched the bomber.
It was the single deadliest attack of the five-year Palestinian uprising.
As many as 143 people were injured when the bomber blew himself up in a packed dining room at the Park Hotel on the eve of the Jewish Passover holiday.
A Palestinian demonstrator uses a slingshot against Israeli troops during a protest against the construction of Israel's controversial barrier near the West Bank village of Beit Ommar near Hebron January 5, 2008. REUTERS/Nayef Hashlamoun(WEST BANK)
Sami Fayyad, 30, was a fighter with Islamic Jihad’s military wing.
At the Khan Yunis hospital were the bodies of two other Palestinian fighters killed in an exchange of fire with Israeli troops. Munir Burhom, 22, and Burhom Abu Lehyia, age unknown, were members of Hamas’s military wing. Two more Hamas fighters were also killed Thursday...
The article describes the Irgun as “Zionist guerrillas who used what would today be called terrorist methods to blast the British out of Palestine.” In fact, today the Irgun would not be considered terrorist. After all, if members of Al Qaeda, who routinely slaughter Iraqis by the hundreds, are “insurgents,” and Hamas, which has done the same in Israel, is made up of “militants,” it is unlikely the Irgun, which focused primarily on British forces and which was loath to kill civilians, would be considered terrorist. But given the rampant double standards that bedevil Israel, who knows?
George Burger
Toronto
An Islamic militant posed this week in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, Ain al Hilwe. Jihadist influence is growing there and in Gaza.
A man inspects the damage at the American International School in Gaza after Palestinian militants set off explosives there in April.
By JENNIFER MEDINA
JERUSALEM, April 4 — Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian who was trying to plant explosives in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, Palestinian and Israeli officials said. It was the second clash in a week in the area near Beit Hanoun, a site from which rockets have frequently been fired toward Israel, despite a tenuous cease-fire since November.
An Israeli Army spokesman said that three men had been spotted putting a bomb near the fence between Israel and Gaza. The Israeli troops opened fire, then the militants detonated two explosives, the spokesman said. It was unclear whether the explosives had caused any damage, but the spokesman said no soldiers had been wounded.
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- A bomb went off Friday night at a girls school in the southeastern Iranian border city of Zahedan, according to the semi-official FARS News Agency.
No one was hurt or killed in the 10 p.m. (1:30 p.m. ET) blast, a military spokesman told the Web site of Iran's state television, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting.
The spokesman, identified as Col. Goodarzi, told IRIB that based on initial information from the scene, a number of militants exploded a percussion bomb in the city and fired at an electricity plant before running away and hiding at a nearby house.
According to FARS, the leader of the Jondollah group, Abdolmalek Rigy, claimed responsibility for the bombing on MKO-TV. The group also claimed responsibility for a car bomb in the same area Wednesday.
MKO stands for the Mojahedin Khalq Organization, an Iranian terrorist group stationed in Iraq.
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