Israeli Occupation Terrorist Forces Kill 13-Year-Old Boy in Beit Lahiya, 16-Year-Old Boy in Nablus, Farmer in Northern Gaza Strip

IOF shell blows off the head of Palestinian boy, another child killed in WB

[ 20/05/2008 - 11:14 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

An Israeli occupation forces' shelling of a group of citizens north of the Gaza Strip at an early hour on Tuesday blew off the head of a 13-year-old Palestinian boy.

PIC reporter quoted medical sources as saying that the body of the child Majd Abu Okel was badly mutilated in the blast.

The sources pointed out that a number of other wounded citizens were rushed to hospital.

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) troops at a late hour Monday fired and killed a 16-year-old Palestinian child at the Hawara roadblock south of Nablus city in the West Bank.

The soldiers blocked Palestinian paramedics from rescuing the child who was left to bleed from three fatal bullet wounds for half an hour until he died, witnesses reported.

They said that the soldiers asked the youth to expose his stomach and when he did they shot him dead.

The soldiers closed the Hawara and Beit Fourik road barriers immediately after the incident and stormed the Beit Fourik and Beit Dajan villages amidst firing of sonic and flare bombs.

The IOF command claimed that the child was carrying pipe bombs strapped to his stomach.

Israeli occupation forces kill two civilians in Gaza Strip

Date: 20 / 05 / 2008 Time: 09:39
Gaza – Ma'an –

The death toll in the northern Gaza Strip rose to two on Tuesday after Israeli occupation tanks killed a Palestinian farmer in the town of Beit Lahiya Gaza Strip.

Palestinian medical sources identified the farmer as 32-year-old Ali Al-Dahdouh. His son was critically injured by a gunshot hit him in the head.

Mu'awiya Hassanain, the director of ambulance and emergency services in the Palestinian Health Ministry said that medics evacuated the Dahdouh's burnt, ragged corpse to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

Another civilian was moderately injured as Israeli occupation warplanes fired a missile at the area of Juhor Al-Deek in the central Gaza Strip.

Earlier, a 13-year-old child was killed in an Israeli occupation air strike in Beit Lahiya, One other person was injured in that attack.

Palestinian medical sources said that the corpse of the child, whose name has not yet been determined, was transferred to Kamal Udwan Hospital in northern Gaza.

Witnesses said that an Israeli aircraft fired a missile at a group of Palestinian civilians gathered in Beit Lahiya. The Israeli air force maintains that it fired at a group of fighters.

Separately, witnesses said that three Israeli tanks and a bulldozer invaded the eastern edge of Maghazi refugee camp, destroying land and shooting intensely.

Teenage victim of Huwara checkpoint shooting identified

Date: 20 / 05 / 2008 Time: 10:36
Nablus – Ma'an –

The Palestinian teenager who was shot dead on Monday at Huwara checkpoint south of Nablus in the northern West Bank was identified on Tuesday as 16-year-old Fahmi Dardouk from Nablus.

Family members went to Rafedia Hospital in Nablus and identified his body, according to Ma'an's reporter.

Hospital director, Dr Khalid Salih, told Ma'an that Dardouk received three gunshots to the chest, abdomen and leg. When he was taken to hospital he was not carrying any identity papers, Dr. Salih added.

Israeli occupation government sources had said the young man refused to comply with the Israeli occupation terrorist soldiers who ordered him to stop and raise his hands. They then opened fire on him, thinking he was wearing an explosive belt.

Eyewitnesses told Ma’an’s Nablus correspondent that Israeli soldiers manning the checkpoint fired a volley of six shots at the teenage boy, who appeared to be around 16 years of age, hitting him several times.

They then completely closed the checkpoint preventing anyone from passing through.

According to the eyewitnesses, the Israeli occupation terrorist soldiers at the checkpoint had asked the young man to lift up his shirt and when he refused they immediately opened fire on him.

Israeli occupation army kills a Palestinian child in northern Gaza and incurs into central Gaza

Tuesday May 20, 2008 09:40 by Rami Almeghari - IMEMC & Agencies

The Israeli occupation army killed earlier on Tuesday dawn a Palestinian child in northern Gaza, as the Israeli tanks rolled few hundred meters into central Gaza.

Medical sources confirmed that Majd Abu Aukal, a 13-year-old child from the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Lahiya, was killed instantly after sustaining a rocket shrapnel.

The sources said that another resident was also wounded by the same shrapnel.

Witnesses in Beit Lahiya said that an Israeli warplane fired at least one missile towards a group of people, killing the child and wounding one man at least.

Israeli occupation army announced earlier that an air strike targeted a number of resistance fighters on Gaza-Israel border lines in Beit Lahiya.

Meanwhile, witnesses said that three Israeli tanks, accompanied by a bulldozer, rolled earlier on Tuesday dawn into the central Gaza Strip refugee camp of Maghazi, under a barrage of heavy gunfire.

Witnesses added that the bulldozer began razing Palestinian-owned farm lands just close to the border fence with Israel, to the east of the camp.

Today's Israeli attacks came while Hamas officials are holding a new round of ceasefire talks with Egyptian mediators in Cairo, as Israeli media reports hinted over the weekend at a likely Israeli occupation army large offensive on Gaza.

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