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Sonic booms harmless, say Israelis
The Israeli defence ministry today angrily rejected claims that flights over the Palestinian camps were "provocative" to terrorists.
The Israeli air force has continued its aerobatic displays over the Palestinian megacamps for the third week in succession, according to reports from journalists in a Tel Aviv hotel.
US-made jets flew low over Camp Sharon, Camp Ben-Gurion and Camp Meir, the reservations in the so-called Gaza Strip where non-native subjects of Israel are housed as long as they refuse to leave.
The aerial displays follow last month's terrorist attack in Tel Aviv, when a suicide bomber killed seven people.
The suicide bomber did not make himself available for interview, but he is thought by experts to have been motivated by a fanatical Islamic cult of deathly evil.
After the bombing, Israeli aircraft carried out retaliatory raids on militant households and their collateral surroundings, killing 17 militants and four potential stone-throwers.
The aerial displays, by contrast, were not retaliatory and were intended "in a purely educative sense," according to the Israeli defence ministry.
Claims by militant groups that the noise from the flights was harming "innocent people" were firmly rejected, although defence spokespersons admitted that the aircraft would be flying low enough to break windows if the Palestinians were permitted such things.
The use of glass was outlawed in the megacamps when Palestinian youths discovered that the substance had potentially sharp edges. Windows were outlawed shortly afterwards as being potential openings for violent behaviour against Israeli tanks.
"The idea that Jewish sonic booms could cause harm to innocent people is nonsense," a spokesperson said. "The claim by certain terrorist groups that these flights are a form of state terrorism is a disgraceful slur on the Jewish people and should be treated as the Nazi war criminals were treated. We do not terrorise innocent people. We're just trying to frighten them a little, that's all."
The Israeli defence ministry today angrily rejected claims that flights over the Palestinian camps were "provocative" to terrorists.
The Israeli air force has continued its aerobatic displays over the Palestinian megacamps for the third week in succession, according to reports from journalists in a Tel Aviv hotel.
US-made jets flew low over Camp Sharon, Camp Ben-Gurion and Camp Meir, the reservations in the so-called Gaza Strip where non-native subjects of Israel are housed as long as they refuse to leave.
The aerial displays follow last month's terrorist attack in Tel Aviv, when a suicide bomber killed seven people.
The suicide bomber did not make himself available for interview, but he is thought by experts to have been motivated by a fanatical Islamic cult of deathly evil.
After the bombing, Israeli aircraft carried out retaliatory raids on militant households and their collateral surroundings, killing 17 militants and four potential stone-throwers.
The aerial displays, by contrast, were not retaliatory and were intended "in a purely educative sense," according to the Israeli defence ministry.
Claims by militant groups that the noise from the flights was harming "innocent people" were firmly rejected, although defence spokespersons admitted that the aircraft would be flying low enough to break windows if the Palestinians were permitted such things.
The use of glass was outlawed in the megacamps when Palestinian youths discovered that the substance had potentially sharp edges. Windows were outlawed shortly afterwards as being potential openings for violent behaviour against Israeli tanks.
"The idea that Jewish sonic booms could cause harm to innocent people is nonsense," a spokesperson said. "The claim by certain terrorist groups that these flights are a form of state terrorism is a disgraceful slur on the Jewish people and should be treated as the Nazi war criminals were treated. We do not terrorise innocent people. We're just trying to frighten them a little, that's all."
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