Truck bomb explodes at Gaza crossing; none injured

A Palestinian truck bomber attacked a key border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel early Thursday morning, the Palestinian militant group Hamas said.

Army Radio reports that there were no injuries in the explosion at Erez crossing. The Israel Defense Forces, which keeps a garrison at the site, declined comment.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/986089.html

There is no other rational way to explain why the militants blow up their very aid (all the while crying about a "seige" and those awful Israelis who won't allow in enough fuel).

Hamas has so little care for their citizens that they will make them suffer and become more miserable, due to Hamas's own sick political agenda.

They all have the same goals.

The article wasn't about aid trucks or Hamas, and I don't get what the desire is by some folk to not bother reading an article before hitting that 'post message' button and knee-jerking away....

then Fatah and Islamic Jihad have "reunified", things that make you say hmmmm. But then it's Ha'aretz so it "must" be true cause after all they publish Amira Hass a few times a year.

This incident has been reported by the Associated Press, the BBC, and Al-Jazeera, among others.

In addition, a statement has been released by Islamic Jihad taking credit for the attack.

In the Ha'aretz article IDF said no comment. Now I see how Al Aqsa which is Fatahs military wing involvment feeds the antinegotiation mind set, I would have to wonder.

Palestinian suicide bomber attacks Gaza crossing

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A Palestinian suicide bomber detonated a truck loaded with explosives as he tried to ram a crucial crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel early Thursday, a spokesman for the militant Islamic Jihad said. No one else was wounded.

The explosion, which could be heard miles away, came as a Gaza's Hamas rulers reported that the latest Egyptian efforts to pry a truce from Israel and Gaza militants had failed.

The Islamic Jihad spokesman, who called himself Abu Ahmad, said the 23-year-old militant drove a pickup truck filled with four tons of explosives toward the Erez crossing in northern Gaza.

He described the attack as a "successful martyrdom operation" that was meant to "send a message" to Israel that if it doesn't accept a truce "Gaza is not going to be a place where you will enjoy stability."

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jD4YSkDPlclqd9dHvg2f0Ij18zEgD90QIJ1O3

If you read my comment that is the part I question, not that it happened as you attempt to imply.

Two militant Palestinian factions — Islamic Jihad and the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades — claimed responsibility for the bombing at the Erez passenger crossing, which could be heard for miles around and shattered windows in Netiv Haasara, an Israeli community across the border.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jD4YSkDPlclqd9dHvg2f0Ij18zEgD90QQB681

The militant Islamic Jihad group said it carried out the Erez operation in cooperation with the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an offshoot of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's secular Fatah group, to avenge Israeli attacks on Palestinians.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL2244808920080522

jubilant, Fatah is now once again a terrorist organization, Karsenty won his case, and all after 2 weeks of celebrating the NakbThe War of Liberation.

Do you mean Israeli Independence Day?

I don't know anyone who would be jubilant about attempted suicide attacks.

are you insinuating that are Likudniks on this board?

Isn't it just the members and supporters of the Likud party in Israel?

Does it have some kind of meaning outside Israeli politics?

Do many people outside Israel even know what the various Israeli political parties are?

Israeli lives, and who's sole causality might well be the peace process? Yes there are, of course it will be denied at least by Israel, but those who do not want peace on both sides are jubilant, this was a gift so to speak.

And yes Independence Day, I am surprised you did not know what the war of liberation was.

Actually Fatah issued a statement in January of this year claiming that the Al Aqsa brigades were no more, I am sure that will be taken into great account. It also makes any chance that Marwan Barghouti may have had to be the next Palestinian leader all but impossible.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/942918.html

so far all of the border crossing points except for egypts have been attacked....this last one was so strong it damaged the electrical stations in several of the gazans camps.....and 31 Palestinians waiting to enter israel to go to the hospital were sent home....

responsibility for the truck was claimed by islamic jihad and al aksa as a joint operation -maariv may 23, page2

It wasn't that long ago that Hamas blew up the wall at the Egyptian border, so I think it is fair to say all boder crossings have been attacked. However, the attacks on the Israeli ones are attacks against Israel and Israelis, unlike the Egyptian border wall.