Zionist premier Ariel Sharon is bent on launching devastating strikes against Palestinian resistance factions in the Gaza Strip before evacuating it, according to Zionist press sources. The sources said that the Zionist army command was launching intensified exercises over the past few days within and on the borders of the Strip in preparation for such a campaign. They said that the plan was drawn more than seven months ago but was delayed until start of the disengagement plan. They explained that the plan was intended to strike the Palestinian resistance's infrastructure and as a muscle-flexing parade before the withdrawal.
However, the sources said that recent resistance attacks in the Strip coupled with other occurrences such as the success of American president George Bush in the presidential elections and the international silence towards Zionist atrocities had encouraged Tel Aviv to accelerate its plan. The plan stipulates dividing the Strip into three separate areas then embarking on a specially-designed incursion for each sector in accordance with nature of targets, making use of the air force, besieging, combing, demolishing houses, arresting wanted activists and wiping out infrastructure of various resistance factions. |