Mosque Used As Rocket Storage Site Targeted

IDF Spokesman
December 30, 2008

http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/569/mosque-used-as-rocket-storage-site-targeted

IAF aircraft targeted a mosque in the Tel El Hawwa neighborhood in Gaza City on Wednesday afternoon that was used by Hamas as a storage site for Grad missiles and Qassam rockets, as well as a staging ground for rocket and missile launches. The most recent rocket launch from the mosque occurred this morning.

The strike set off numerous secondary explosions, caused by the munitions stockpiled in the mosque. In recent days joint IDF and ISA intelligence efforts produced information that terrorists were hoarding weapons in the mosque and carrying out rocket attacks against Israeli communities from its grounds, as well as using it as a place of hiding.

The IDF will continue to attack any target used for terrorist activity, and will not hesitate to strike those involved in terrorism against the citizens
of the State of Israel even, if they cynically choose to operate from locations of religious or cultural significance.

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