Word: qassam
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...observe a cease-fire, gunmen of the secular al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - the military wing of the deposed Fatah party - vowed last week to continue cross-border attacks. A member of the equally militant Islamic Jihad, who called himself Abu Aziz, told Time his cadres will continue firing homemade Qassam rockets into Israel, even though the Israeli military responds to the few they shoot each day with hundreds of artillery shells. Thirteen militants were killed by Israeli artillery and air strikes in Gaza two weekends ago, but so were four civilians, one an 8-year-old girl. For now, Hamas...
...home, Sycamore Ranch, in the western Negev desert. Friends who talked to him reported that he was in low spirits. At about 9 p.m. he spoke by phone with Israel's Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant-General Dan Halutz. They discussed how to respond to Palestinians' firing of Qassam rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip...
...auto shop trailing the green flags of Hamas. The burly, bearded drivers step out, clad in black T-shirts, olive pants, and matching green Hamas baseball caps decorated with the opening verse of the Koran. Since Israel's withdrawal, these gunmen of Hamas's Izzedine al-Qassam Brigade can go about their business such routine tasks as checking the air pressure in their tires...
...relative chaos of the withdrawal. If that happens, these tanks will roll in to keep Palestinian gunmen occupied until the withdrawal is complete. Only one dune separates the field of tanks from the fence and the village of Beit Hanoun. It might not take much - a few homemade Qassam rockets - to set the tanks rolling...
...flight turns along the north of the Gaza Strip toward the sea leaving behind the withdrawal itself and focusing on Israel's fears for the future. Hard on the border fence is Netiv ha-Asara, a small farming community. Last month, a Qassam rocket dropped onto the leafy dune-top village and killed an Israeli woman. When Israel pulls out of Gaza, Netiv ha-Asara could become an even easier target for the rockets, a new frontline...