IOF Chief Of Staff; Israel Will Continue Extrajudicial Assassination in the Strip as a Policy

IOF Chief Of Staff; Israel Will Continue Extrajudicial Assassination in the Strip as a Policy

GAZA, Palestine, November 9, 2005 (IPC+Agencies) ---The Israeli occupation forces announced its resolveness to continue the extra-judicially assassination operations in Gaza Strip as a policy not only as a way to reprisal the attacks carried out by the Palestinian resistance factions.

Israeli occupation forces Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Dan Halutz said on Tuesday afternoon said that recent military activity against Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza would continue

Halutz, who was speaking before the parliamentary foreign affairs and defense committee, said the assassination policy "was "the most effective weapon in Israel's armory in the fight against terror."

He also added "such operations are the army policy rather than a response to an attacks or shootout."

In response, the spokesperson of the Palestinian National Authority Nabil Abu Rudenh, called upon Washington to press on Israel to bring the IOF military attacks at a standstill.

"Such operations thwarted the exerted efforts to push the peace process forward," Abu Rudenh said.

The Islamic jihad movement, on its part, asserted that the IOF chief of staff remarks on the continuation of the extra-judicially assassination operations against the member of the movement will not scare the movement.

Dr, Mohammed Al Hindi, the key leader of Islamic jihad stated that sticking with the Palestinian uncompromising rights grew stronger and more firm amongst the movement in each time the crisis worsen against the leaders and the members of the movement.

He added that the assassination operations which killed 23 of the movement cadres ever since the announcement of calming down period, motivated the movement to reconsider the prospect of renewal commitment to the calming down in the shadow of the Israeli military escalation and the IOF chase of the movement cadres.

Al Hindi headed the attention in the lat IOF arrest raid; the Israeli troops arrested 700 members of the movement in the West Bank.