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4th November 2006, 11:15 PM
BY THE thousands, the women descended on Beit Hanoun, answering Hamas’s overnight radio pleas to rescue besieged Palestinian gunmen from the mosque.
Veiled and carrying mobile phones and handbags, they charged past Israeli tanks and armoured bulldozers through the streets of a border town in the midst of the most intensive Israeli military operation in northern Gaza in recent months.
The fighters, who had been holed up in the mosque for at least 36 hours, were to have been smuggled out in women’s clothes — some of the marchers wore double sets under their voluminous black cloaks and veils.
From the Times (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2437016,00.html) in the UK, who still call them 'militants.'
Veiled and carrying mobile phones and handbags, they charged past Israeli tanks and armoured bulldozers through the streets of a border town in the midst of the most intensive Israeli military operation in northern Gaza in recent months.
The fighters, who had been holed up in the mosque for at least 36 hours, were to have been smuggled out in women’s clothes — some of the marchers wore double sets under their voluminous black cloaks and veils.
From the Times (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2437016,00.html) in the UK, who still call them 'militants.'