- 5 oct 2004
Mussa Muhammad Hamed al-Jabarin, 44
resident of Sa'ir, Hebron district, killed in Sa'ir, Hebron district. Killed after he tried to flee from IDF troops.
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Maria 6 oct 2004
Abdallah Hussein Abdallah Qamhan 15
Muhammad Bassam Rushdi Radad 16
Ali Khaled Ali al-Jaru 17
Abdallah of Beit Lahya, Gaza, killed by IDF shelling.
Muhammad of Saida, near Tulkarm, killed by undercover IDF gunfire to his abdomen and armpit while throwing stones on his way to school.
Ali of Deir al-Balah refugee camp, Gaza, killed by the IDF near the Kfar Darom settlement.
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Maria 6 oct 2004
Amnah Al Najjar 60 years old is brought in private car to the hospital after sustaining a head injury by an Israeli sniper. She was in her house.
Israeli soldiers riddled her body with twenty bullets and another five ripped through her head on her way to school. Thirteen year old schoolgirl Eman Al Hums is from Rafah Refugee Camp. She was shot on her way to school with other two friends. They, however, were luckier than she was when they ran away as soon as they heard the shelling.
Dr. Ali Mussa at Abu Youif Al Najjar hospital said that the Israeli soldiers in Rafah shot the child and prevented the medical team from reaching her body nor bringing her into the hospital.
The Israeli military Forces later on today said that they had not found any kind of explosives in her school bag. After killing the schoolgirl, one of the soldiers had said he had believed the bag contained explosives.
From Iman’s blood in Rafah on to Somia Felfel in Jabalya. A tragedy like no other when Israeli tanks shelled her house leaving all 8 of her children injured.
The Jabalya Refugee Camp is till under very heavy shelling and hundreds of victims are arriving at the hospital every hour. The people are appealing to the Red Cross but they have been unable to respond. A case in point: Umm Jamal Id, a member of one of the families who are currently surrounded had been asking for food and water for her children and the Red Cross had not been able to react at all.
In an interview over phone with the spokesman of Red Cross Simon Schorno, he said:’I’m on my way to Gaza Strip, but the damaged roads in Gaza Strip is the reason for the absence of Red Cross over the past few days."
There is heavy resistance in the Jabalya Camp and explosives can be heard from time to time, inside the camp.
Sixty year old Amnah Al Najjar arrived at the hospital a few hours ago after sustaining serious head injuries. She was transferred to Al Shifa hospital due to the lack of beds and medical instruments at Kamal Adwan hospital.
“Al Najjar was shot in her head while she was in her house,“ the driver who brought her body to the hospital said.
Ja balya camp is known as the most heavily populated camp in all of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. It is also the first place where the first Intifada had erupted and where a militant Israeli Jeep drove a group of Palestinians workers inside the camp.
Israeli soldiers today prevented ambulances and fire engines from reaching the fire that had erupted in three tons of gas in the North of Gaza Strip. Black smoke can been seen everywhere in the North of Gaza Strip..
Today it was different from yesterday and the past few days because now there are so many international journalists who have come into the area to cover the ongoing carnage, but still the Israeli Forces are not allowing them to into the camp, and still there are so many of them stuck at the Erez checkpoint awaiting permission to get into the Gaza Strip.
The refugee families inside the camp are appealing to all free people throughout the world to stop the blood shedding by the Israeli Occupation Forces in the camp.
All family members were injured: Soha Felfel 6 year old, on her bed, after being injured by a tank shell with all her family in the Jabalya Camp
Even kindergartens: Palestinian children are collecting what remains from the kindergarten that was demolished by the Israeli bulldozers and apaches shelling
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Maria 7 oct 2004
Suleiman Abed Hussein Abul-Foul 14
Raed Ziad Ahmad abu-Zayd 15
Muhammad Tuhami Yousef abu-Seif 15
Suleiman of Beit Lahya, Gaza, killed by IDF shelling near a sports club.
Raed of Jabalya refugee camp, Gaza, killed by IDF shelling near a sports club.
Muhammad of Jabalya refugee camp, Gaza, died of chest wounds sustained Oct. 1 from IDF tank fire near his home.
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Maria 8 oct 2004
Samah Samir Omar Nasr Musleh 10
Hassan Jumah Yousef al-Sharathah 13Ismail Abu 25
Samah of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, killed by IDF tank fire to her abdomen at the entrance to her home.
Hassan of Jabalya, Gaza, died of wounds sustained Oct. 5 from IDF tank fire.
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Maria 9 oct 2004
Mohammed Mohammed Adwan 21Arafat Fuad Nasser
10 oct 2004
Gaza Daily Update, 7.00 PM
Tawfiq Mohammed Sharafi 24
12 oct 2004
The Israeli Occupation soldiers gave Oraiba district in Rafah 30 minutes to to leave their houses before the bulldozers started demolishing them. “Louder speakers are calling us to leave or they will shoot us” said one of the eyewitnesses over phone in Rafah while running trying to get his important documents.
Eight houses were completely and partially demolished in that incursion, in addition to the damages of the greenhouses, infrastructure, and everything related to humanity. Oraiba district is well known as an agriculture area. It is one of the best sources for markets to get into Gaza Strip.
Abu Youif Al Najar hospital reported about many injured people arriving the hospital everyday due to the daily shelling from tanks and Israel posts.
The Israeli military Forces have been blocking Gaza Strip, dividing it into three parts for the second week in a row. This has made life very dififcult for us with lack of food, medicine and even gas for cars to move inside Rafah.
In Khanyouies also, the IOF Forces shelled Nasser hospital with three ta nk shells, leaving at one of the nurses injured, also a 10 year old schoolgirl was inured while sitting at her school desk in one of the UNRWA schools in the Camp.
In Jabalya, there are now hundreds of injured and dead.. http://fwd4.me/0yTN
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Maria 13 oct 2004
Ghadir Jaber Hussein Mukhemar 9
Jihad Hassan Barhum 16
Ghadir of Khan Younis refugee camp, Gaza, died of chest wounds sustained Oct. 12 from IDF gunfire while in her classroom at a United Nations-administered school.
Jihad of Rafah, Gaza, killed by IDF gunfire to his abdomen while playing soccer near the border with Egypt.
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Maria Gaza Daily Update, 7.00 13 oct 2004
Palestinian child injured by shrapnel during Israel’s military assault on Gaza.
Since the wide-scale Israeli military assault on the northern part of the Gaza Strip, 129 Palestinians have been killed, including 31 children and 23 Palestinians in other parts of Gaza. At least 421 Palestinians, including 138 children were injured. Numerous homes and private property have also been destroyed as IOF utilize air force and heavy tanks in this military operation. In addition, as the incursion continues, the civilian population of the area suffer shortage in food and water supply. In the areas which IOF occupy civilians lack the most basic needs. Al Mezan is still receiving plights from people who have been in urgent need for medicine and water.
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Maria 13 oct 2004
Ramzi Ismail Abu Shaqfa 23
On 13 oct 2004, the UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan selivered the following statement: ” The Israeli Government has acknowledged that the video of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) ambulance does in fact show the driver handling a stretcher and not a rocket. The Secretary-General is committed to preventing the illegal use of UN vehicles or facilities by armed militants. Should any further issues arise, the Secretary-General expects the Government of Israel to share with the United Nations, through normal diplomatic channels, any information it might have so that the matter may be properly investigated. The statement comes after a UN investigation team finished its probe in Israel’s allegations against UNRWA recently.
British Foreign Minister, Jack Straw condemned the Israeli violence in Gaza today saying that the Israeli Government were also failing to meet their legal obligation to ensure responses to terrorism were proportionate. In his statement, which came as the Israeli army expanded its two-week incursion in the Gaza Strip, he said he “recognized the operation was in response to Qassam rocket attacks but it had killed 115 Palestinians, including many children”. He added that his country “condemns all acts of terrorism including the firing of Qassam rockets. But Israel has an obligation under international law to ensure that its response to terrorism is proportionate to the threat it faces, as well as a duty to avoid innocent civilian casualties and humanitarian suffering. It is not meeting those obligations.” He also mentioned that he was particularly worried by the “tragic case” of Iman al Hams, the Palestinian schoolgirl who was shot 20 times on her way to school. He said he was concerned aid agencies, including an arm of the United Nations, were having problems delivering humanitarian supplies to Gaza and the West Bank. “Any blockages in these supplies will only worsen the already desperate living conditions of many of the people of Gaza,” he said.
Lebanese figures renewed their support of the Palestinian people in practicing its right to self-determination and of a sovereign state where Palestinians live in dignity like other peoples. They spoke in the International Forum on Development in Palestine in Beirut and condemned the Israeli violations and crimes against the Palestinian people.
The Arab National Conference and the Arab Bar Union condemned the United States policy in the Arab region today. In a joint statement, the two organizations said that the double standards employed by the US in the region allowed Israeli crimes to be perpetrated against Palestinian civilians. They also condemned the silence of the international community in the face of the mounting crimes of the Israeli occupation, which have been concentrated in the Gaza Strip and left over 100 Palestinians killed and hundreds wounded.
Turkish Prime Minister, Rajab Ardugan, criticized the policies of Israeli PM Ariel Sharon saying they were a threat to peace and security in the region and that such policies would not provide security for the Israelis. Ardugan’s statement was brought before a delegation of the American Jewish Commission yesterday in Ankara. He strongly criticized the Israeli-built separation wall in the West Bank emphasizing his country’s absolute refusal of the Israeli practices against Palestinians in the OPT. finally, he rejected the delegation’s request to visit Israel asserting that such a visit would not be possible under the ongoing conditions.
In its two-day meeting with major donor countries, UNRWA discussed the priorities for humanitarian needs for Palestinian refugees over the coming five years with donors and host countries. The Agency’s representatives described to the meeting the suffering faced by the refugees living through the escalating conflict in the occupied territory and the difficulties faced by UNRWA in trying to deliver humanitarian services to them, especially in Gaza, where its efforts to deliver aid was delayed by Israeli security procedures at the crossings into and out of the strip. donors called in their formal statements to the meeting for Israel to fully abide by its obligations under international humanitarian law and allow UNRWA full and unrestricted access for the delivery of humanitarian aid. UNRWA speakers also informed the meeting of the death of an UNRWA staff member, teacher Maher Zakout, last Sunday who killed on his way to work during the ongoing Israeli incursion into northern Gaza and that eleven UNRWA employees have been killed in the course of the present conflict. Mr. Peter Hansen, UNRWA’s Commissioner-General, referred to recent allegations made against Agency staff by the Israeli authorities and told the meeting: “The false accusations have to stop. It is in the interests of both the refugees and Israel, for UNRWA and Israeli authorities to have a mutually respectful relationship.”
Médecins du Monde issued a medical Summary on the North Gaza incursion. It pointed out that 94 Palestinians have been killed and 417 injured in this area, many of them civilians and more than 25% persons 18 years or younger, during the ongoing Israeli operation in the North Gaza area. The sunnary also mentioned the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Gaza strip and the obstacles faced by the organization in carrying out its activities, especially the denial of its personnel access to patients and several areas in the Gaza Strip.
Al Mezan statement
Al Mezan Center for Human Right gravely condemns Israel’s continued collective punishment of Palestinian civilians in the OPT, and especially in the North Gaza area. The center emphasizes that IOF committed violations, and continue, serious violations of human rights is this area, especially the arbitrary shelling and bombardment of residential areas, the use of excessive and disproportionate force, the obstruction of ambulance and humanitarian teams movement and, he destruction of homes and private properties. Such acts breach the International Humanitarian Law and human rights standards and necessitate urgent action by the international community.
The Center believes that the failure of the international community to effectively intervene has only urged Israel to continue its breach of international law. Al Mezan calls for urgent international community to protect Palestinian civilians in the OPT and to put an end to its collective punishment of Palestinian civilians, especially as the humanitarian situation of tens of thousands of civilians is deteriorating rapidly.
Al Mezan calls upon the United Nations Security Council to condemn the Israeli breaches of the international law and to initiate investigations in the IOF’s violations of human rights in the Gaza Strip.
Due to the Israeli incursion in North Gaza and to the presence of IOF tanks 150 meters from its office, which incurs serous dangers on the center’s office and the safety of its staff, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights was forced to close its main office in Jabalia camp. The Center receives the cases who need intervention in person or by telephone in its Gaza office in Izzadin Al Qassam St., tel/fax: +970 (0)8 2820447/2.
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Maria 14 oct 2004
Mohiuddin Maher al-Madhoun 18Nidal Mohammed Masood 19
Events of day 16, Thursday 14
IOF’s military operation in North Gaza entered its 16th day today, 14 October 2004. According to Al Mezan’s fieldworkers, 129 Palestinians have been killed and at least 421wounded from IOF fire. Among the deceased are 31 children. Moreover, IOF demolished 81 homes completely and hundreds of homes partially since 28 September 2004. They also leveled an area of 610 dunams of farmland, most of which in this area. IOF also destroyed numerous public facilities, including police and security posts, schools, mosques and kindergartens were damaged or destroyed.
IOF expanded their military action in the Gaza Strip under worsening humanitarian conditions. At dawn today, IOF carried out a new incursion in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip. They also continued their siege and incursion in north Gaza area.
At 7:30pm yesterday, Wednesday 13 October 2004, IOF opened fire towards homes near the Education neighborhood in Beit Lahia. A 17-year-old girl, Athar Abu Ajeena, was wounded from a live bullet in the shoulder when she was at the entrance of her home. Several houses in the area were damaged.
At 9:35pm yesterday IOF launched a missile towards As Salatin neighborhood west of Beit Lahia killing 24-year-old Ramzi Ismail Abu Shaqfeh. Tanks opened machinegun fire towards homes in the same area damaging numerous homes.
At 12:05am today, IOF launched a missile towards Block (7) in Jabalia camp. Two Palestinians, 19-year-old Muhyi Ad Din Al Madhoun and 20-year-old Nidal Harb Masoud were killed. Several homes were also damaged in the attack.
IOF withdrew from parts of the town of Beit Lahia at 3am today. Al Mezan’s fieldworker, who visited these parts, reported that yesterday’s incursions left much damage to civilians’ property. Thirteen homes were demolished or damaged beyond repair, while dozens were damaged. Additionally, tanks and bulldozers damaged major parts of the infrastructure, including pavement, water and electricity networks. IOF also an area of approximately 100 dunams of land planted with strawberries and citrus fruit trees. Moreover, they destroyed 5 commercial stores, 5 motor vehicles and caused damaged to the agricultural cooperative and a mosque in the area.
At 5am today, IOF opened machinegun fire towards Tel Az Zaatar neighborhood in Jabalia. Tanks fired three shells at the neighborhood and damaged numerous homes.
At 6:20am today, IOF tanks fired a shell at a spot near the Beit Lahia Girls Preparatory School and the nearby Beit Lahia Youth Club. The school building and several homes were damaged. At 4:40 pm, tanks fired another three shells towards the same area and caused severe damage to the school, the club and the nearby mosque.
At approximately 1:45pm today, IOF opened fire towards the house of Yousif Abdul HadiAhmad in Qleebo neighborhood in Beit Lahia and destroyed one of its outside walls while seven people were inside it. They destroyed a water-well owned by the family before they occupied the house and detained its residents into one room. It is worth mentioning that IOF had demolished two houses owned by Ahmad’s sons in the same neighborhood a week earlier.
In the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, IOF stormed into Block (J) in the refugee camp at 9:45pm yesterday. Tanks fired shells towards the densely populated block killing an old man, 70-year-old Ismail Muhammad As Sawalha, and two adults. Medical sources informed Al Mezan’s fieldworker that the victims were 21-year-old Ahmad Salih Al Tahrawi and 23-year-oldAli Abdul Kareem Shaath and that they were disfigured from the shells. In addition, a 75 year-old woman, Khadra Shoman, was wounded from shrapnel in the head. Witnesses reported that the victims were killed inside their homes and while trying to escape from the area under the shelling. IOF withdrew from the area at 4:30 after they destroyed 35 homes, which were inhabited by 353 people.
IOF’s closure of the Gaza Strip continued today. Both of the beach road and Abu Holy checkpoint, in the middle of the Strip, were completely closed. IOF closed the Abu Holy checkpoint on 29 September 2004, and the beach road two days earlier dividing the strip into three segments. The humanitarian situation in the southern area of the strip has been deteriorating because the population there is dependent on Gaza City for supplies. Moreover, emergency cases, especially people who need to travel for health care, have been mounting in the different areas of the strip. New complaints were heard from farmers who have been banned from sending their products to the northern parts of the Gaza Strip, which suffers shortage of food. Schools and universities remained closed, or did not work as students and instructors could not reach them.
Palestinian, Israeli and international statements
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Maria 15 oct 2004
Wael Mousa Saleh 23
16 oct 2004
Here the Israeli gun machines pass: Devastation in Jabalya Refugee Camp
In less than ten hours, a massive IDF incursion on the night of Thursday the 14th into dawn on Friday killed three civilians, left ma ny more injured, destroyed completely or damaged into uselessness about 48 houses, and did serious damage to infrastructure. With that many houses uninhabitable, now hundreds of men, women, and children have become homeless. Rafah governorate has said about 300 citizens joined the thousands already homeless here in ten hours last night.
From the medical staff at Abu Youif Al Najjar Hospital in Rafah,I learned that Ismail Sawalha, a man of 70, Ali Sha'at, 25, and Ahmed Al Tahrawi, 21, were killed in the incursion. Hospital personnel said that the bodies of the two young men arrived at the hospital in burned fragments and initially, identification was difficult. It was only neighborhood eyewitnesses who later told the hospital that the bodies of the two men were burned in the crater made by the Apache-fired missile.
Ahmed Al Sawalha, the 36-year-old son of Ismail, saw his 70-year-old father killed. "My father was sitting at the stair of our house when he was killed," he said. "There were no gunmen or fighters in the street. There was no need to shoot at him."
Also, I was told by eyewitnesses that Jihad Barhoom, 16 years old , was shot while standing outside his home a few hours before the full incursion started At least four people were badly injured, including an elderly lady, Khadra Shoman.
As usual, the Israeli army rolled into the three neighborhoods with tens of tanks and bulldozers, covered by two Apache helicopters and other surveillance planes.
Some of the early wire service stories have said 30 houses were reduced to rubble. I am getting the estimate of 48 houses from talking to eyewitnesses in the neighborhoods that suffered this incursion, namely, Yebna Camp, Al Shao'ut, and the Al Barahmah district. I tend to trust that number because only someone who actually lives in the area can walk around and know for sure whether a given stretch of rubble had the day before been one, two, three, or more homes.
As usual, water, electric, and sewer lines suffered serious damage. Some of these had been repaired since May's "Operation Rainbow," and are now wrecked again. Also, as usual, streets have been torn up and fruit trees razed. Everywhere you walk in Rafah, you can see the damage caused by incursion after incursion. It is almost imp ossible to find any building that does not have its collection of bullet and shell damage.
From Gaza City:
According to Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, Sharon is "considering withdrawing"to the 'outskirts' over the weekend.
Khalil Samara, the mayor of Jabalya, said this about the announcement: "Sharon is committing his largest, bloodiest massacres under the guise of 'withdrawing' from the Palestinian camps."
This IDF operation, called "Days of Penitence" is the Israeli "response& quot; to a Qassam rocket launched by Palestinian militants at the Israeli town of Sderot close to the Gaza/Israeli border. That attack late in September killed 2 Israeli children. "Response" seems the wrong word for what is now happening in all of Gaza. It is collective punishment, and illegal under international law. http://fwd4.me/0yTN
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Maria 18 oct 2004
The "Days of Penitence": Gaza Sinks in a Sea of Blood
19 oct 2004
Moahmed Ahmed Hamed 27Mohamed Kamal al-Shawa 30
21 oct 2004
Imad Mahmoud Abbas
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Maria 22 oct 2004
UNRWA Gaza field assessment of IDF Operation Days of Penitence
lyad Muhammad Eyad Alsir 26
Medical workers carrying the body of one of a man killed by Apache rockets targeting a gathering of civilians, in the North of Gaza Strip, Jabalya Refugee Camp
One casualty, a young woman, was walking outside fher house to her cousin's house. Another woman was on her way to the hospital in North Gaza. One schoolboy was on his way to elementary school when an Israeli bullet penetrated his head. Another man was walking to the mosque for dawn prayers when he was shot down. Sometimes it seems as if I write the same report over and over, only the names and places change. The four examples above are typical of the deaths taking place throughout the Gaza Strip.
For the Palestinian residents here, the great majority of whom are Moslem, this is the holy month of Ramadan. For the Israeli occupiers, it seems this is the season of killing civilians, especially children in their houses, on the streets, even in the schools.
All the dislocations and fatal changes can make life seem unreal. One day, you see and talk with your brother, your son or your friend. Then the next day, maybe the next hour, you hear he is dead. Before, you could usually blame a cheap bullet and the IDF sniper who fired it. Lately, we hear of fewer sniper deaths. Now, thanks to all the military aid from America, and the passive acquiescence of the international community, the Israeli army relies more now weapons of greater efficiency—tank shells, Apache missile strikes, machine gun fire, and often, illegal fragmentation devices.
These weapons often make a normal funeral impossible. How can you say farewell w hen there is nothing left to say farewell to? How can the family say goodbye to a piece of a leg, an arm, or perhaps a barely recognizable fragment of their loved one's head?
Everywhere you go in Gaza lately, in Jabalya , Rafah, Gaza City, Khan Younis, you can smell death. Since the Israeli attack on Jebalya started in late September, the director of Jebalya's Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr. Mahmoud Asali, said about 140 people were killed, 60 of them children, and over 500 injured, many of them very seriously with upper-body wounds.
Hundreds of houses were completely and partially demolished in North Gaza, especially in Jebalya, Beit Lahia, and Beit Hanoun. Palestinian municipal workers are still working on an official count of the uninhabitable houses, consulting with the newly homeless residents in their surveys of the ruins. "The choices were only two, either leave the house in five minutes or get demolished with it," an elderly lady of 75 years told me. I spoke to Jamila Abu Rokba while she was sitting on the rubble of wha t had been her house in Jebalya. At the moment, there was nowhere else for her to go.
One of the ambulance drivers at Kamal Adwan Hospital told me, "For more than two and a half years, I have been working as an ambulance driver, but this is the first time I have ever seen victims in such large numbers." He had also never seen bodies so badly mangled. "It was not easy for me to collect human shreds," he said, "and it is even more painful that we often couldn't identify the dead people because so many parts were missing."
The Israeli Occupation Forces have announced their official redeployment from the Jabalya Refugee Camp after 17 days of continuous incursion. During that time, the Gaza Strip was sealed off into many small sections and roads closed by new IDF checkpoints and roadblocks. The IDF violence has not stopped. Today the Israeli soldiers at Abu Holi checkpoint shot at two passengers.. Yesterday, two civilians were injured while they walked beside a taxi on the coast road to Gaza City.
Medical authorities announced that Israel delivered 18 bodies they had been holding of people killed in the past three years. The Palestinian medical personnel could identify only 8 of those bodies, all of them killed within the last few months.
Medical sources at Al Najjar hospital announced that six were killed in the last 24 hours here in Rafah. Two militants were killed in a firefight with Israeli soldiers in the area of the Sufa Crossing near Rafah. Hamas took responsibility for that exchange of fire.
Evewitnesses near the Israeli settlement of Rafiah Yam said two members of Islamic Jihad were killed by an unidentified blast.
This morning Jihad Hassanin, 22, was killed during a clash near the Salah Al Deen gate in Rafah. Medical personnel at Al Najjar hospital said the IDF Forces delivered his body to their ambulance only two hours ago.
A young civilian was killed while on his way to dawn prayers in Rafah. Medical sources said a 29 year old man was brought to Al Najjar Hospital after being killed by an IDF sniper.
Three children were injured today in the daily shelling. One of them, Niman Abu Samahadanah, a girl 8 years old, has a serious spinal injury. In addition, Egyptian sources announced that a 10 year old Egyptian child was killed on the Egyptian side of the Rafah/Egypt border by Israeli bullets.
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Maria 24 oct 2004
Abdul Aziz Abu Moammar
Abdul Eight children at D UNRWA Elementary School for Girls in Tal Al Sultan were injured during the first class of the morning when the IDF fired on the school. All eight girls, plu s their teacher, were in their Arabic language class when they were injured by shattered window glass.
Also on Sunday, Al Najjar Hospital reported that Abdul Aziz Abu Moammar died of wounds sustained early in the morning near Sofa crossing northeast of Rafah Refugee Camp. A few hours later, the Israeli bulldozers started demolishing agricultural land and gardens and burying the remains of previously destroyed houses. When they are finished with this final destruction, the area is totally flat and empty and the wind and rain can start the work of returning once flourishing farms and neighborhoods to desert. If you saw this no-man's-land for the first time, you would find it hard to believe these were once farms, gardens, olive and citrus groves, streets full of people, rows of houses, stores, and mosques—a place of life instead of this empty destruction.
During these last few days, there have been frequent electric outtages, during which landlines do not work, and there has been virtually no internet access throughout South Gaza. Also during the worst of the attacks when the Apaches are nearby, many mobile phones do not work. This adds to the uncertainty and sense of isolation people feel here. There are so many questions in the eyes of everyone you pass in Gaza, and the fear there will be no answers. Sometimes the foreign media is just another source of frustration as it gives so much space to fashion, sports, and entertainment. These are preoccupations many people here find hard to appreciate when our "fashions" are often what we can salvage from rubble, our national sport is running from tanks, and our predominant "entertainment" is waiting at checkpoints. http://fwd4.me/0yTN 12 apr 2012, 16:09 , Respect -
Maria 25 Oct 2004
The middle of the night — Breaking news:
"Apaches, tanks and bulldozers invading Khanyounis Refugee Camp".
Human shreds, legs, arms, heads are scattered on the alleyways and streets of Khanyounis Refugee Camp at these moments.
In a question to an ambulance driver, how many people were injured and killed:" I don’t know, but I have now in the back of the ambulance, legs, arms and human parts", he answered.
Hundreds of families start leaving their houses at these moments, under the heavy shelling and shooting by apaches, and tanks in the Camp. http://fwd4.me/0yTN