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IOF Continue to Target Civilians in the Gaza Strip
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed 3 Palestinian children and seriously injured a fourth one yesterday evening (10 July 2006) in Beit Hanoun, when an IOF plane fired a rocket at them. This crime comes within the context of the open war against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip since the capture of the Israeli soldier on 25 June 2006. It is part of the chain of collective punishment, targeting civilians, and destroying civilian property and infrastructure. With the death of these children, the number of Palestinian casualties in the Gaza Strip since the start of the Israeli military operation rises to 51 dead, including 26 civilians, and 140 injured. There are 7 children and a woman among the dead; and the majority of the injured are civilians.
PCHR's preliminary investigation indicates that at approximately 19:15 on Monday, 10 July 2006, and IOF plane fired a rocket at 4 children who were near Hayel Abdel Hamid Secondary School in northern part of Beit Hanoun. They were in an area previously used as soccer field near their homes. The rocket fell amidst the children. Three were killed instantly; and their bodies were torn by the blast. The fourth child suffered serious injures. The dead children are: Mahfouth Farid Nuseir (16), Ahmad Ghalib Abu Amsha (16), and Ahmad Fathi Shabat (16). The injured child is Raji Omar Deifallah (16).
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Palestinian Clan Clashes in Gaza Kill Woman and Child, Injure Ten (Palestinian Center for Human Rights)
A Palestinian woman and child were killed and seven others were injured in a clan clash in Nuseirat in Gaza on Sunday.
Neighbors said the clash erupted over the distribution of inheritance between cousins.
On Monday, three Palestinians were injured in a clan clash in Bani Suheila.
A Palestinian woman and child were killed and seven others were injured in a clan clash in Nuseirat in Gaza on Sunday.
Neighbors said the clash erupted over the distribution of inheritance between cousins.
On Monday, three Palestinians were injured in a clan clash in Bani Suheila.
Israel dropped a quarter-ton bomb on a home in the Gaza Strip before dawn to try to assassinate top Hamas fugitives, escalating its two-week offensive in the Gaza Strip aimed at freeing a soldier seized by fighters linked to the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
The blast killed nine members of a Palestinian family — including a 4-year-old boy. The head of Hamas' military wing was wounded but escaped, Israel said.
Israel's actions will have consequences, and it may not be the ones that they like...
The blast killed nine members of a Palestinian family — including a 4-year-old boy. The head of Hamas' military wing was wounded but escaped, Israel said.
Israel's actions will have consequences, and it may not be the ones that they like...
Israeli intelligence identified the correct target, a three-story concrete house on the northern edge of Gaza City where top Hamas military men were holding a meeting, including Muhammad Deif, the head of the military wing, sought by Israel for more than a decade, and Raed Saad, his top aide.
The Israeli air force hit the target accurately at 3 a.m. local time today, causing the back of the house to collapse into a concrete sandwich, while the front of the house teetered backwards, resting on the rubble behind.
But the top men of Hamas’s secretive military wing, who have held a captured Israeli soldier since June 25, escaped, although with apparently moderate injuries, even after another Israeli missile was fired on a car fleeing the scene.
Instead, the bombing killed nine members of the Salmiyeh family, a father, mother and seven of the couple’s 10 children, aged 7 to 18, who were on the upper floors of the house.
To hear the views of neighbors and onlookers, the attack was another example of wanton killing, of the Israeli disregard for Palestinian life.
From Israel’s point of view, the meeting was a perfectly justified target and another example of the irresponsibility of Hamas in putting civilian lives at risk.
The owner, Nabil Abu Salmiyeh, 48, was a lecturer at the Islamic University in Gaza City and a member of Hamas, and he apparently allowed his house, in the quiet Sheikh Radwan district, to be used for the meeting.
Dr. Jumaa al-Saqqa, a surgeon and hospital spokesman, said that in addition to the nine killed, 37 people were wounded, with three of them in critical condition. Asked about Hamas members who were said to have come to the hospital for treatment, he sighed and said, “Some came and were treated and left.” Asked for their names, he said, “They themselves refused to give us any information.”
Khalil Bahaisi, 42, the head nurse of the surgical wing, said the hospital’s job is to try to cure people as best it can. “We try to stay out of politics on the job,” he said.
The Israeli air force hit the target accurately at 3 a.m. local time today, causing the back of the house to collapse into a concrete sandwich, while the front of the house teetered backwards, resting on the rubble behind.
But the top men of Hamas’s secretive military wing, who have held a captured Israeli soldier since June 25, escaped, although with apparently moderate injuries, even after another Israeli missile was fired on a car fleeing the scene.
Instead, the bombing killed nine members of the Salmiyeh family, a father, mother and seven of the couple’s 10 children, aged 7 to 18, who were on the upper floors of the house.
To hear the views of neighbors and onlookers, the attack was another example of wanton killing, of the Israeli disregard for Palestinian life.
From Israel’s point of view, the meeting was a perfectly justified target and another example of the irresponsibility of Hamas in putting civilian lives at risk.
The owner, Nabil Abu Salmiyeh, 48, was a lecturer at the Islamic University in Gaza City and a member of Hamas, and he apparently allowed his house, in the quiet Sheikh Radwan district, to be used for the meeting.
Dr. Jumaa al-Saqqa, a surgeon and hospital spokesman, said that in addition to the nine killed, 37 people were wounded, with three of them in critical condition. Asked about Hamas members who were said to have come to the hospital for treatment, he sighed and said, “Some came and were treated and left.” Asked for their names, he said, “They themselves refused to give us any information.”
Khalil Bahaisi, 42, the head nurse of the surgical wing, said the hospital’s job is to try to cure people as best it can. “We try to stay out of politics on the job,” he said.
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