3 Palestinian Civilians, One Fighter Killed, 15 Injured in Gaza by Israeli Occupation Terrorist Forces

4 Palestinians dead, at least 15 injured in Israeli raids on Gaza

Date: 14 / 05 / 2008 Time: 10:37
Gaza – Ma'an –

Four Palestinians were killed and more than 15 were injured on Wednesday in several Israeli terrorist air and ground raids on the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian medics affirmed that two Palestinians were killed and six others were injured as Israeli occupation terrorist forces invaded 'Izbat Abid Rabbu near Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, a series of Israeli terrorist air strikes on the southern Gaza Strip killed one Palestinian activist affiliated to Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades and injured five others, most of them seriously.

The director of Kamal Udwan Hospital in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Bassam Abu Warda, stated that two dead bodies arrived to the hospital, one of them so badly injured it has not yet been identified. The other was identified as 17-year-old Mahmoud Al-Majdhub who received a gunshot to his back as Israeli occupation terrorist soldiers invaded 'Izbat Abid Rabbu. Eyewitnesses said the boy was riding his bicycle with his school bag on his back.

Israeli occupation army attacks on the Gaza Strip leaves 4 killed and 15 injured

Wednesday May 14, 2008 11:44 by Rami Almeghari & Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

Palestinian medical sources said that four Palestinians were killed and 15 others injured during a number of Israeli occupation terrorist army attacks targeting deferent parts of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.

Three civilians were killed and at least 10 injured when an Israeli tanks shelled residential areas during an invasion targeting the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

Among those three killed were Ibrahim Salaha, 19, who was hit with a tanks shell and Khader Salamah, 17, who was playing on his bicycle when Israeli soldiers shot him, witnesses stated.

Palestinian security sources said that several Israeli tanks and armored vehicles swept earlier in the day into the vicinity of the eastern cemetery of Jabaliya, just close to the Israel-Gaza border lines.

Earlier on Wednesday morning one Al-Qassam brigades of Hamas fight was killed and three others injured during an Israeli air raid targeting a group of Palestinian fighter who were clashing with the invading troops in Khan Younis town in the southern part of the Gaza Strip. The Al-Qassam Brigades identified the fighter as Bassam Ashour, 19.

Witnesses said that Palestinian resistance fighters attempted to strike back against the invading Israeli troops, as armed clashes broke out.

The latest Israeli occupation military escalation on the ground comes one day after Israel turned down a Hamas ceasefire offer, mediated by Egypt, demanding Hamas to free the captured Israeli occupation soldier and stop arms smuggling from Egypt into Gaza.

Four Palestinians killed in IOF incursion in Gaza

[ 14/05/2008 - 10:02 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

Four Palestinians were killed on Wednesday during Israeli occupation terrorist forces (IOTF) incursions in south and north of the Gaza Strip including three civilians and a resistance fighter, medical sources reported.

The sources told PIC reporter that an unidentified citizen was killed in IOTF shooting in an incursion east of Jabalia, north of Gaza.

They added that two civilians were also killed in IOTF shelling at a group of citizens in the same area.

They identified the two as Khadar Salama and Ibrahim Salha, and noted that both bodies were burnt.

Witnesses said that a number of IOF armored vehicles advanced east of Jabalia and bulldozed vast areas of Palestinian agricultural lands amidst intensified firing at residential neighborhoods.

Earlier on Wednesday a Palestinian fighter affiliated with the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, was killed and three others wounded in an IOF incursion in Khuza'a and AbaSsan villages east of Khan Younis, south of Gaza.

Medical sources said that Mohammed Habib was killed in an IOTF air raid that targeted a group of resistance fighters.

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