Reply #23: The same incident reported in Haaretz

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Here you can read that there was no forced entry into the house. Grenades were thrown in. This contradicts the report from the Palestinian news service. Apparently they'll do anything to make the IDF look bad.

A reconnaissance company from the Givati brigade entered the outskirts of Rafah to arrest Islamic Jihad leader activist Yasser Abu al-Aesh, whom the army blames for shooting attacks, firing mortar shells and Qassam rockets, and planting explosives in the area.

Palestinians said soldiers backed by tanks and helicopters entered Rafah under cover of heavy machine-gun fire that drew an immediate response from Palestinian gunmen. Two Palestinians, a Hamas gunman and Mujdi al-Khatib, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades' top field commander in the camp, were killed in the exchange, Palestinian medics said.

Troops then pulled up to the home of Yasser Abu al-Aesh, who lost three of his limbs a year ago when a tank shell hit his rocket-firing squad in Rafah. He belonged to another group, the Popular Resistance Committees, at the time. The army said Aesh threw a grenade at the soldiers who came to arrest him and he was shot and killed. His brother, a gunman, was also killed in the confrontation.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/390011.html

(Near the end of the report.)