The airstrike that occurred today was the first Israel strike against a militant in the Gaza strip since the cease fire in November of 2011. Palestinian militant, Haitham al-Mishal, Evyatar Borovsky, was killed by the airstrike. This airstrike occurred shortly after an Israeli man living in a settlement in the West Bank was stabbed to death by a Palestinian. The rockets used in the airstrike were launched from the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula. The Islamic extremist group operating in Gaza and Sinai - the Mujahedeen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem - said it had fired the rockets in support of Israeli prisoners in Palestinian jails. The the Mujahedeen Shura Council claimed that the victim was one of its members, but had previously been a member of the armed wing of Hamas. A spokesperson for Hamas describes this act as "'dangerous and unjustifiable.'"
Posted by: Liz Linning
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/world/middleeast/israeli-airstrike-kills-palestinian-in-gaza.html?ref=world&_r=0
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