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To: steve harris who wrote (188377)	5/11/2004 2:59:50 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575341

Which cockroaches?

To: steve harris who wrote (188377)	5/11/2004 3:23:02 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575341

You must be very happy......there's a little bit of killing of just about everyone in just this one article! ******************************************************* Hamas displays 'Israeli remains' Palestinian militants have been parading what they said were body parts belonging to six dead Israeli soldiers. The Israelis were killed when their armoured vehicle was blown up in Gaza City, in an attacked claimed by the Hamas militant group. Hundreds of troops have been sent into the narrow streets of the city to try to retrieve the soldiers' remains. Militants are reported to have set conditions for their return. The Red Cross has been called in to mediate. The loss of six soldiers is said to be the highest for the army in a single operation in nearly two years. They were attacked after several hours of street fighting in Gaza City between Palestinian militants and Israeli troops who had entered the Zeitoun area looking for weapons workshops. Later, an Israeli helicopter gunship fired a missile at a Palestinian car in Gaza City. Palestinian sources say two militants were injured and a 14-year-old boy was killed. Gun battles left six Palestinians dead including two members of the Hamas movement which encourages attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians. Emergency meeting Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed that Israel would seek out and hit militants "wherever they hide". He convened an emergency meeting of his inner Cabinet to discuss how to respond to the deaths. Correspondents talk of gruesome scenes in Gaza City, with militants showing off what they said were Israeli body parts and pieces of wrecked Israeli equipment. A masked Hamas gunman was seen holding up a blood-stained bag. Two other Palestinian militant groups, the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade and Islamic Jihad said they also had body parts and were setting unspecified conditions for their return. The Israeli authorities have asked for the help of the International Committee of the Red Cross in retrieving the bodies. But the military vowed to stay in the area until it had gathered its dead. The BBC's Alan Johnston in Gaza calls Tuesday's clashes the fiercest fighting seen in Gaza for months. Hamas said it had drawn the Israeli vehicle into an area where it had several bombs waiting, and filmed the explosion. The deaths of the Israeli soldiers were announced from loudspeakers in mosques. 'Blow to Israel' The Israelis said they had found more than 30 machines used for making weapons in Zeitoun. The Palestinians say four workshops were hit. BBC Middle East analyst Roger Hardy says the deaths of the soldiers will be a serious blow to Israeli forces. He says Hamas supporters will see it as proof that the organisation has the ability to strike back to avenge the killing of two of its top leaders by the Israelis in March and April. The latest Israeli deaths are the worst single blow to the army since November 2002, when eight Israeli soldiers, along with a border patrol officer and three civilian guards, were killed in an ambush in the West Bank city of Hebron. news.bbc.co.uk