Two Palestinians, One Israeli Soldier Killed in Nablus and Gaza Strip

IOFs kill Palestinian fighter in Gaza, Palestinian boy killed in Nablus

[ 18/09/2007 - 10:59 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- 

A Palestinian resistance fighter was killed in northern Gaza Strip last night in Israeli occupation forces (IOF) shooting while another one was wounded in an IOF shelling, medical sources reported.

An IOF spokesman said that his soldiers were detaining the body of the martyr, whose identity was not known yet.

The Palestinian medical sources said that contacts were underway with the IOF to deliver the body to the paramedics.

One of the popular resistance committees' activists was wounded when IOF tanks shelled a group of fighters affiliated with its armed wing the Salahuddin Brigades in Beit Hanoun.

A PRC spokesman said that the fighter was lightly wounded while the others survived the shelling.

For its part, the armed wing of the Hamas Movement, the Qassam Brigades, declared responsibility for firing five mortar shells at a group of IOF armored vehicles east of Khan Younis to the south of the Strip on Monday night.

In Nablus, a Palestinian boy was killed in a hit and run incident late Monday, local sources said.

They explained the 14-year-old child Mohammed Abu Yacoub was returning from a picnic with his friends when an Israeli bus ran over him near Nablus.

News of the boy's death triggered a wave of anger in his village of Kifl Hares especially when the accident was not the first of its kind on that same road.

Palestinian killed during Israeli incursion in northern Gaza 

Date: 18 / 09 / 2007 Time: 09:19

Gaza – Ma'an – 

A Palestinian citizen was killed on Monday evening in the northern Gaza Strip when Israeli occupation forces opened fire at him.

Director of the ambulance and emergency department in the Palestinian ministry of health, Dr. Muawiya Hassanain, said that Israeli occupation sources reported that the Israeli occupation forces had killed a Palestinian in the north of the Gaza Strip.

Coordination is ongoing to transfer the corpse into the Gaza Strip; it is currently being detained by the Israeli occupation army, which is attempting to discover whether the deceased was a combatant or a civilian.

Radio Israel said on Tuesday that the Israeli occupation forces opened fire at a group of Palestinian fighters in the northern Gaza Strip, none of whom were injured.

Palestinian sources revealed that the Israeli occupation forces launched two missiles at a Hamas training base in northern Gaza, injuring three people.

Fateh fighters shoot Israeli soldier in southern Gaza 

Date: 18 / 09 / 2007 Time: 09:26

(MaanImages) Gaza – Ma'an- 

The military wing of the Fateh movement, the Al-Aqsa Brigades, on Tuesday claimed that they shot an Israeli occupation soldier while he was standing on the roof of a Palestinian home in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

The brigades said that the soldier was directly hit and that they witnessed soldiers running in the area, amidst arbitrary gunfire.

The brigades also said that clashes are ongoing with an Israeli undercover force (a death squad) that had been stationed on the roof of the home in Rafah.

Palestinian youth and Israeli occupation soldier killed during clashes in Nablus

Date: 18 / 09 / 2007 Time: 09:46

Nablus – Ma'an – 

A Palestinian youth and an Israeli occupation soldier were killed in Al-'Ayn refugee camp, in western Nablus, as fierce clashes erupted between invading Israeli occupation forces and Palestinian resistance fighters on Tuesday morning.

Another soldier is reported to have been injured after the Israeli occupation military incursion sparked armed confrontations in the refugee camp, in the northern West Bank.

An activist from the military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades; eighteen-year-old Muhammad Khaled Rida, was shot to death in the central neighbourhood of the refugee camp.

Director of medical relief in Nablus, Dr. Ghassan Hamdan, said the youth received several bullets to his body.

The Israeli occupation soldiers prohibited ambulances from reaching him. At the time of publishing this report, ambulance services were still unable to evacuate the corpse of the deceased man.

Another Palestinian youngman, twenty-one-year-old Yousuf Khuraino, received a bullet to his shoulder during the clashes.

Two-stage operation

The Israeli occupation forces launched a wide-scale operation in the refugee camp in two stages, in the first stage, more than fifty Israeli military vehicles stormed the camp at dawn and imposed curfew.

Eyewitnesses told Ma'an's correspondent that the Israeli occupation forces seized four Palestinians during the operation and blasted through the walls between homes to ease their path through the Palestinian neighbourhoods.

The soldiers occupied and stationed themselves within the Palestinian residences.

Yesterday, the Israeli occupation forces killed a Palestinian youth in Ramallah, in the central West Bank. The sixteen-year-old passer-by received a bullet to his flank as Israeli troops clashed with Palestinian stone-throwers. The Israeli soldiers prevented medical services from aiding the young man. He bled to death.

** Last updated 12:32 Jerusalem time

Israeli occupation forces raid Qabatya 

Date: 18 / 09 / 2007 Time: 11:15

Jenin – Ma'an – 

Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday morning invaded Qabatya, east of the northern West Bank town of Jenin, and set up several ambushes and military posts in the western and eastern neighbourhoods.

Eyewitnesses told Ma'an that Israeli occupation military vehicles were deployed throughout the town and snipers were stationed in deserted homes. Undercover forces stormed homes, gathered families in one room and took over the buildings.

The Israeli occupation forces withdrew at 6am; there were no reported injuries or apprehensions.

 

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