Palestinian Civil War Watch
Charles Johnson
Sat May 20, 2006 at 7:38 am PDT • Views: 293
Bomb Wounds Palestinian Intelligence Chief.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The Palestinian intelligence chief, Tareq Abu Rajab, an ally of moderate President Mahmoud Abbas, was seriously wounded by a bomb packed with metal pellets at his headquarters Saturday in what security officials called an assassination attempt.
There was no claim of responsibility, but the explosion in an elevator shaft of the heavily guarded compound in Gaza City came at a time of growing friction between Abbas and the Hamas-led government over control of the security forces. …
Abu Rajab underwent surgery at nearby Shifa Hospital in Gaza, where doctors stopped the bleeding and stabilized him before transferring him to Israel’s Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.
With his head bandaged and in a neck brace, he was taken in a heavily guarded Palestinian ambulance to the Israel-Gaza border crossing.
Lying on a bloody sheet, he was rolled on a gurney from the Palestinian ambulance to the waiting Israeli vehicle. Israeli medical personnel immediately treated Abu Rajab before putting him in the ambulance and taking him to Ichilov.
Good thing Abu Rajab and his pals haven’t succeeded in wiping out Israel yet. That Zionist entity sure comes in handy when you need emergency medical assistance.
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