According to YNet News, the London-based Al-Hayat reports that Jamal Abu Samhadana personally planned the Kerem Shalom attack before he was killed in an Israeli air strike on June 8. As the NY Times points out:
Israeli officials said Sunday that the tunnel, which extended from Gaza at least 600 yards and emerged behind Israeli lines, had taken many weeks, if not months, to dig.
Palestinian assertions that the Kerem Shalom attack avenges Samhadana’s death don’t hold water. And given that the time-consuming task of digging the tunnel was underway well before June 9 Gaza beach tragedy, we also have to wonder about this outrageous headline in The Age of Melbourne:
Palestinians strike back over civil toll
