8 Palestinians Killed in Gaza by Israeli Occupation Forces Given Honorable Funerals

Hamas mourns martyrs, vows reprisal

[ 20/04/2008 - 10:30 AM ]
GAZA, (PIC)--

The Hamas Movement has mourned the death of four of its operatives in an IOF shelling that targeted an advanced position east of Jabalia refugee camp to the north of the Gaza Strip on Saturday evening.
The Movement in a statement said that the "Zionist savagery" points to the Israeli military confusion after Palestinian resistance fighters succeeded in launching a number of qualitative operations.

"There will be no calm with the Zionist enemy until it accepts the resistance's demands, and we will not hoist the white flag but will confront it with all our power," Hamas concluded.

The four Qassam Brigades' members were killed in an IOF air raid at a late hour on Saturday. The number of martyrs on that same day thus rose to nine, eight of them Qassam members including three who carried out the attack on Karm Abu Salem base while the others were killed in separate raids.

Funerals for eight victims of Israeli action in Gaza

Date: 20 / 04 / 2008 Time: 09:21
Gaza – Ma'an – Gaza – Ma'an –

Funeral processions were held on Sunday in the Gaza Strip for eight Palestinians killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip.

Two of the victims were children who died on Sunday of wounds sustained last Wednesday in the Israeli shelling which killed Reuters' cameraman Fadil Shana'a. Palestinian medical sources named the children as Ahmad Najjar and 16-year-old Bilal Dhaimi.

A Palestinian activist affiliated to Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades was killed and four others were injured on Sunday morning when an Israeli reconnaissance plane launched a missile at a group of activists in the Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City.

Palestinian medical sources said Najib Sarahnah was killed in the attack, while the four injured sustained moderate and serious wounds.

On Saturday evening, Al-Qassam Brigades activist Muhammad Mousa was killed in Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

Minutes before that four Al-Qassam Brigades activists were killed and two others were injured also in Jabalia.

Muawiya Hassanain, the director of ambulance and emergency services in the Palestinian health ministry identified the deceased as Muhammad Abdul-Rahman, Zahir Shamiyya, Hisham Dhahir and Riyad Tanani. They were taken to Kamal Udwan Hospital along with two injured activists.

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