- 7 sept 2006
Kamel Kaeid Muhammad Lubani, 28
Rashid Muhammad 'Abd al-Hadi Zakarneh, 38
21 apr 2012, 01:30 , Respect -
Ashraf Zakarna, 26
Mohammad Abu Al Rob 35
Four Palestinians killed, fifteen injured in Qabatia
21 apr 2012, 01:30 , Respect -
Nasser Mohammed Misbah
21 apr 2012, 01:30 , Respect -
Mohammed Abdullah Naji
21 apr 2012, 01:30 , Respect -
Anees Tawfiq Amor
Ahmed Muhammad As’ad
Two Palestinians killed by Israeli special forces near Jenin
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Jihad Abu Sneima, 14
Nayef Abu Sneima, 20
Child killed by army shells in Rafah, his brother is clinically dead
Palestinian medical sources reported on Sunday evening, that a Palestinian child was killed and his brother was his brothers is clinically dead after the Israeli army shelled an area near the Gaza International Airport, east of Rafah city, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
The child was identified as Jihad Abu Sneima, 14, and his brother Nayef, 20, was seriously injured and was pronounced dead one hour after his injury.
In a separate incident, Israeli troops, armored vehicles and military bulldozers were seen lining-up, near Kissufim area, east of Al Qarara town, east of Khan Younis in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, apparently preparing for a ground offensive there.
http://www.imemc.org/article/21375
Jihad Suleiman Selmi abu-Snaima
19 sept 2006
Gaza: The children killed in a war the world doesn't want to know about
By Donald Macintyre
Nayef Abu Snaima says his 14-year-old cousin Jihad had been sitting on the edge of an olive grove talking animatedly to him about what he would do when he grew up when he was killed instantly by an Israeli shell.
He says he clearly saw a bright flash next to the control tower of the disused Gaza international airport, occupied by Israeli forces after Cpl Gilad Shalit was seized by militants on 25 June. "I went two or three steps and the missile landed," said Nayef, 24. "I thought I was dying. I shouted 'La Ilaha Ila Allah' [There is no God but Allah]."
When Jihad's older brother Kassem, 20, arrived at the scene: "My brother was already dead. There was shrapnel in his head. Nayef was shouting 'Allah, Allah'. The missile landed about four metres from where Jihad had been standing. There was shrapnel in his body as well, his legs, everything. He had been bleeding a lot everywhere."
Jihad Abu Snaima was just the most recent of more than 37 children and teenagers under 18 killed [out of a total death toll, including militants, of 228] in the operations mounted by the Israeli military in Gaza since 25 June, according to figures from the Palestinian Centre of Human Rights (PCHR).
Of these, the PCHR classifies 151 as "civilian", although beside non-combatants and bystanders, that total also includes militants or faction members not involved in operations against Israel at the time for example those deliberately targeted in Israeli air strikes because of their involvement in previous attacks. The Israel Defence Forces have always maintained that being under 18 does not automatically exclude a person from taking part in action against them.
The conflict in Gaza has attracted relatively little international attention, not least because for five weeks it was overshadowed by that in Lebanon. But the death toll has continued to rise.
Nayef, who was speaking from his hospital bed, has multiple shrapnel-inflicted cuts on his plaster-covered arms and legs. But he was lucky compared with Jihad. A school caretaker with a five-year-old daughter, Nayef insists the evening of Jihad's death was just a family get-together. It is normal, he said, in this Bedouin community in the Al Shouka hamlet outside the southernmost Gaza town of Rafah to socialise at each other's homes on a summer evening, and that he and Jihad were especially close.
"I was always with him. He was an innocent person, kind. He was talking to me about how he was going to inherit part of his father's land and farm it and how he was going to get married and stay here." Nayef added tearfully: "He was a boy who had hopes. He wanted to live his life." He added: "What is my daughter going to think? She is going to grow up hating the Israelis."
The family say there was no shelling in the area at the time either before or after the incident; and that they therefore presume Jihad and Nayef were targeted by a tank crew. They insist there was no activity by militants against Israeli positions on the day of the attack. "This is an open area," said Nayef. "The resistance would not go there because they would be seen."
By contrast, the Israel Defence Forces said, without specifying Al Shouka, that on 10 September it had identified and hit "two men" moving near its forces in southern Gaza crouching on the ground, and " apparently planting explosives". Nayef is adamant that on the night in question he and Jihad were merely pausing on an evening stroll to his own house.
The PCHR, which seeks to monitor every violent Palestinian death, does not only focus on the Israel-Palestinian conflict. It has, for example, repeatedly condemned the killing and injuring of growing numbers of civilians, also including children, during mounting inter-Palestinian disputes in Gaza; shootings by Palestinian security forces themselves; attacks on Christian churches by Muslims protesting against the Pope; the injury of civilians, including children, by Palestinian-fired Qassam rockets which fall short of targets in Israel; and the kidnapping last month of two Fox TV employees which has deterred journalists from visiting Gaza.
But Hamdi Shaqqura of PCHR's Gaza office which accuses Israel of using repeated closures and destruction of the power supply to operate a policy of "collective punishment" in breach of international law in Gaza, argues that the excuse of "collateral damage" cannot justify the " very high" death toll in the operations since 15 June. He adds: " Israel's forces have been acting excessively and disproportionately, and this explains the high figures for the number of innocent civilians killed by them."
At the other, northern end of Gaza, close to the al-Nada apartment blocks between Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahiya, Aref Abu Qaida, 16, was killed by an artillery shell on 1 August. Sharif Harafin, 15, said: "We had been playing football and we had just finished. I was carrying the ball. I was going to my home, and [Aref] was going to his home. I heard a loud boom and then I saw him cut to pieces."
As his family displayed Aref's shredded red baseball cap, Sharif said he saw his friend's severed head on the ground, adding: "His chest was torn out by the rocket. People were collecting parts of his body. I was crying a lot."
The IDF says that on 1 August it had fired and hit "a number of Palestinians" in "the area of Beit Lahiya" who had " approached a number of rocket launchers placed in the area". Both PCHR and local residents, including Mohammed Abu Qaida, 39, the dead boy's uncle, say that, while three other civilians were wounded, the only other death in this incident was that of Mervat Sharekh, 24, a woman who was visiting relatives from Rafah and who died in hospital an hour later.
Although the area had been shelled before, and some residents had fled in response to Israeli warnings the previous week, Mr Abu Qaida said the area had been quiet on the day except that Qassam rockets had been fired about four hours earlier from northern settlements more than a kilometre away from the flats.
The IDF said last night that, of those killed in Gaza, it had the " positive identities of over 220 gunmen killed in fighting, and can confirm their affiliation with terror organisations". The 220 figure said to be "unbelievable" by Mr Shaqqura coupled with another 20 dead which the military acknowledges as genuine civilians, is all the more strikingly at variance with PCHR figures since it produces a total exceeding the centre's own records.
Mr Shaqqura said that, at the absolute minimum, the IDF figures do not take into account the casualties under 18 which PCHR estimates at 44 and from which he said every effort is made to exclude the "rare" teenagers with militant connections or eight women killed since 25 June. " We do not believe their figures. We do not believe their investigations."
The IDF said: "Since the abduction of Cpl Gilad Shalit by the Hamas and PRC terror organisations, the IDF has been operating in the Gaza Strip against terrorist infrastructure and in order to secure the release of Cpl Shalit. In the course of the operations, the IDF engaged in intense fighting with Palestinian gunmen, who chose heavily populated areas as their battlegrounds. The IDF takes every measure to prevent harm to civilians, often at a risk to its soldiers."
The forgotten war in the Middle East
* 25 June: Palestinian gunmen from the Hamas-linked Izzedine al-Qassam brigades cross from Gaza into Israel and launch a raid on an Israeli military patrol. Two Israeli soldiers are killed, four wounded and one, Cpl Gilad Shalit, is captured and taken back into Gaza.
* 28 June: Israel masses troops before launching a reoccupation of the Gaza Strip under the codename Operation Summer Rains. Civilian casualties mount as Israeli forces search the Khan Younis refugee camp for Cpl Shalit.
* 12 July: Mimicking the tactics of Palestinian militants, Hizbollah launches mortars and rockets into northern Israel from southern Lebanon to divert attention from a cross-border raid that ambushes an Israeli military patrol, killing three soldiers and capturing two others. The raid threatens to draw the whole Middle East into conflict.
* 13 July: International attention is diverted from Gaza as Israel launches a full military invasion of southern Lebanon in response to Hizbollah's attack. The mounting civilian death toll across Gaza pales in comparison to Lebanon as Israeli jets pummel infrastructure.
* 24 July: As world powers frantically search for a UN-backed ceasefire in Lebanon, Israel increases its bombardment of the Gaza Strip in an attempt to force Palestinian militants to release Cpl Shalit. Under the codename Operation Samson's Pillars, Israeli jets pound Gaza's roads and buildings, including the power station.
* 14 August: UN approves a ceasefire for Lebanon after four weeks of fighting which has left approximately 1,500 Lebanese and 150 Israelis dead. International community continues to ignore the conflict in Gaza over fears that Lebanon could slip back into warfare unless a UN peacekeeping force arrives in the region.
* Mid-August-present: Israel continues to carry out air strikes and raids in Gaza. At least 33 civilians have been killed since the beginning of August, 10 of whom were under the age of 18.
Names of children under the age of 18 killed during the operations mounted by the Israeli military in Gaza since 25 June, according to the Palestinian Centre of Human Rights
Bara Nasser Habib, 3 (hit by shrapnel to the head and body, Gaza City, 26 July)
Shahed Saleh Al-Sheikh Eid, 3 days old (bled to death after airstrike, Al-Shouka, 4 August)
Rajaa Salam Abu Shaban, 3 (died of fractured skull in air raid, Gaza City, 9 August)
Jihad Selmi Abu Snaima, 14 (killed by a shell, Al-Shoukha, 10 september)
Khaled Nidal Wahba, 15 months (died of wounds from an airstrike, 10 July)
Rawan Farid Hajjaj, 6 (killed with his mother and sister in an airstrike, Gaza City, 8 July)
Anwar Ismail Abdul Ghani Atallah, 12 (shot in the head, Erez, 5 July)
Shadi Yousef Omar 16 (shot in the chest by IDF, Beit Lahya, 7 July)
Mahfouth Farid Nuseir, 16 (killed by missile while playing football, Beit Hanoun, 11 July)
Ahmad Ghalib Abu Amsha, 16, (killed by missile while playing football, Beit Hanoun, 11 July)
Ahmad Fathi Shabat, 16 (killed by missile while playing football, Beit Hanoun, 11 July)
Walid Mahmoud El-Zeinati, 12 (died of shrapnel wounds, Gaza City, 11 July)
Basma Salmeya, 16 (killed in Israeli airstrike, 12 July, Jabalia)
Somaya Salmeya, 17 (killed in Israeli airstrike, 12 July, Jabalia)
Aya Salmeya, 9 (killed in Israeli airstrike, Jabalia, 12 July)
Yehya Salmeya, 10 (killed in Israeli airstrike, Jabalia, 12 July)
Nasr Salmeya, 7 (killed in Israeli airstrike, Jabalia, 12 July)
Huda Salmeya, 13 (killed in Israeli airstrike, Jabalia, 12 July)
Eman Salmeya, 12 (killed in Israeli airstrike, Jabalia, 12 July)
Raji Omar Jaber Daifallah, 16 (died of shrapnel wounds from missile, Gaza City, 13 July)
Ali Kamel Al-Najjar, 16 (killed by Israeli tank shell, Al-Maghazi refugee camp, 19 July)
Ahmed Ali Al-Na'ami, 16 (killed by Israeli tank shell, Al-Maghazi refugee camp, 19 July)
Ahmed Rawhi Abu Abdu, 14 (killed by drone missile, Al Nusairat refugee camp, 19 July)
Mohammed 'awad Muhra, 14 (killed by Israeli bullet to the chest, Al-Maghazi refugee camp, 20 July)
Fadwa Faisal Al-'arrouqi, 13 (died from shrapnel wounds, Gaza City, 20 July)
Saleh Ibrahim Nasser, 14 (killed by artillery fire, Beit Hanoun, 24 July)
Khitam Mohammed Rebhi Tayeh, 11 (killed by artillery fire, Beit Hanoun, 24 July)
Ashraf 'abdullah 'awad Abu Zaher, 14 (shot in the back, Khan Younis, 25 July)
Nahid Mohammed Fawzi Al-Shanbari, 16 (killed by artillery fire, Beit Hanoun, 31 July)
'aaref Ahmed Abu Qaida, 14 (killed by artillery fire, Beit Hanoun, 1 August)
Anis Salem Abu Awad, 12 (killed by airstike, Al-Shouka, 2 August)
Ammar Rajaa Al-Natour, 17 (killed by drone missile, Al Shouka, 5 August)
Kifah Rajaa Al-Natour, 15 (killed by drone missile, Al Shouka, 5 August)
Ibrahim Suleiman Al-Rumailat, 13 (killed by drone missile, Al Shouka, 5 August)
Ahmed Yousef 'abed 'aashour, 13 (killed by missile fire, Beit Hanoun, 14 August)
Mohammed 'abdullah Al-Ziq, 14 (killed by drone missile, Gaza City, 29 August)
Nidal 'abdul 'aziz Al-Dahdouh, 14 (killed by rifle fire, Gaza City, 30 August)
Jihad Selmi Abu Snaima, 14 (killed by artillery fire, Rafah, 10 September)
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=26802 21 apr 2012, 01:30 , Respect -
Israeli media: “Jewish terrorist convicted of killing four Palestinians"
Israel not to Prosecute Commander for killing 21 Palestinians in one family in Gaza
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Israeli Commander: `“we dropped more than a million cluster bombs on Lebanon"
Over 1,000 Lebanese civilians were killed, many of them by cluster bombs. The number of casualties by cluster bombs increased significantly in the last part of the war, when a U.S. rush shipment of weaponry, including cluster bombs, was sent to Israel.
1 sept 2006
Israeli forces violate ceasefire in Lebanon again by conducting major operation over last 24 hours
21 apr 2012, 01:30 , Respect -
Muhammad Omar Awad Shoriya, 12
of Rakhma, near Bethlehem, killed by IDF gunfire to his back while throwing stones at soldiers demolishing a Bethlehem home.
Israeli Army kills 12-year-old boy as troops invade Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers killed Mohammad Shawariya 12, from the village of Rakhma near Bethlehem and wound 25-year-old Najah Bouja Tuesday afternoon.
A large Israeli military force invaded the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Tuesday afternoon. Eyewitnesses said at least ten military vehicles entered the city from its northern entrance and moved towards the Church of the Nativity square, in the center of the city.
Residents said the force includes an ambulance which is a sign that the force is planning to kidnap somebody from the area.
Clashes erupted between the residents and the invading soldeirs. Eyewitnesses said at least one Palestinian is injured with rubber bullets, adding that troops also fired live ammunition at stone throwing kids.
Earlier in the day, an Israeli soldier was killed near Khan Younis in the central Gaza Strip.
Palestinian resistance fighters clashed with the Israeli troops who invaded the strip on Tuesday morning.
"I can confirm that an Israel Defense Forces non-commissioned officer was killed by gunfire," an Israeli army spokesman said.
Exactly one year ago, Israeli army unilaterally pulled out of the Gaza Strip declaring an end to 38 years of military occupation of the Gaza Strip.
Palestinians attribute the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip to the efforts of the Palestinian armed struggle.
Israel however, kept a very tight siege on the strip and controlled all its entrances and exists, including the border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, for which some Palestinians call Israel’s unilateral disengagement a redeployment of the Israeli forces.
Israel dismantled all the settlements in the Strip which was home to some 7000 settlers who lived on almost 40 percent of the Strip, where the 1.5 million Palestinians lived on 60 percent only.
http://www.imemc.org/article/21417
Mourners in Bethlehem hold funeral for child killed yesterday
The city of Bethlehem was closed Wednesday afternoon, with a general strike declared by all shops and businesses to mourn the death of 13-year old Mohammad Ali Showria,shot in the chest yesterday during an Israeli invasion of Bethlehem.
Crowds filled Bethlehem’s streets after noon prayers Wednesday. All were walking with the body of 13 year old . The funeral procession walked from Hussein Government Hospital to his father’s village eight kilometers away.
Residents and officials from the city and village joined the procession as it moved slowly in the afternoon sun to the eastern village’s cemetery.
Mourners flew Palestinian flags and raised posters of the child made quickly to honor his death. Others called out that the Palestinian people would “not succumb to the Israeli war machine and occupation.”
During his burial many people spoke in memory of Showria and against “the new Israeli crime committed in Bethlehem that targeted women and children without any mercy.”
Speakers stressed that Israel and “the war machine will only reap failure from its repression in the face of the steadfastness of the Palestinian people and our adherence to practicing our legitimate rights.”
Throughout the day Bethlehem City and surrounding villages conducted a commercial strike in memory of the slain child. The nine people injured in yesterday’s six-hour invasion are still hospitalized, and two remain in critical condition.
Israeli military officials have issued no statement on the attack. As Palestinians, the family of Showria have no legal right in Israeli courts to demand compensation or justice for their son's murder.
http://www.imemc.org/article/21443
Muhammad 'Omar Mahmoud Shuriyeh 21 apr 2012, 01:30 , Respect -
Iyad Abu Mour, 28
One Palestinian killed in latest Israeli invasion of southern Gaza
Weekly report of human rights violations
21 apr 2012, 01:31 , Respect -
Bushra Sultan, 27
Nabile Hanini, 25
Two killed in the West Bank one of them a pregnant woman
Two West Bank residents were killed by the Israeli army on Tuesday morning, one of them a pregnant woman who was delayed at an army checkpoint.
Bushra Sultan, 27, from the Saflit region of the West Bank, died at an Israeli military checkpoint - East of Saflit - which had been closed by Israeli soldiers on Tuesday morning. Medical teams tried to revive Sultan but all attempts failed, leading to her death due to being unnecessarily held at the checkpoint.
Israeli soldiers stationed at checkpoints located all over the West Bank delay ambulances for hours as they search Palestinian vehicles. This action often leads to the death of patients in ambulances waiting to cross checkpoints.
Elsewhere Nabile Hanini, 25, from Sanour village south of the West Bank city of Jenin was shot and killed and another four taken prisoner by the Israeli army on Tuesday morning. In the early morning hours more than 20 armored vehicles stormed the village of Sanour and surrounded the house of Mohammed Abdul Latif before showering it with live rounds, when soldiers left the area Hanini was found dead in the house, local sources said he was originally from Beit Fourik near Nablus city.
Medical sources reported that Hanini was killed due to being hit by several live rounds in the chest and head, local residents reported that soldiers had arrested Hanini before killing him.
Abdul Latif, the owner of the house, was taken along with his three sons, by Israeli troops to an unknown location.
Nabil 'Aref M'aruf Hanani 21 apr 2012, 01:31 , Respect -
Hanan Muhammad Ismael abu-Odeh, 16,
of Beit Hanoun, Gaza, died of wounds sustained Sept. 2 from IDF gunfire while trying to help her father and older brother, who were also killed, in front of their home during an incursion.
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Abu Odah was injured when Israeli army opened fire at her and her family killing her father and brother Ismai'l, her younger sister received three bullet wounds in the attack while Hannan was wounded by eight live rounds and was moved to a hospital in Israeli for treatment were she died, her brother Ayman reported.
Moreover on Wednesday at dawn Israeli jet fighters fired several missiles at the house of Fatehi Jaradat leveling it to the ground.
Jaradat said that the army called him and told him leave the house. The houses was attacked several mints after the phone call.
Israeli army sources clamed that the house is being used as a storage place for weapons. The Israeli army is using the strategy of calling the owners of houses before attacking them and then leveling them within minutes of the phone call, giving the owners no time to appeal, which is illegal under international law.
21 apr 2012, 01:31 , Respect -
Omar Abu Jarad, 23
Palestinian killed by Israeli shells in northern Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Wednesday that one resident was killed, another was injured, after the Israeli army fired a tank shell at a group of residents who were present close to the border line in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.
The sources stated that the body of resident Omar Abu Jarad, 23, was severely mutilated as a result of the blast. One resident was moderately injured in the blast.
An Israeli military source claimed that the two residents came close to an area used by resistance fighters as a launching pad for homemade shells.
The sources added that troops fired the shell after a Qassam homemade shell was fired at the Western Negev.
“The two were fighters who came to collect the shell launchers from the launching area”, the sources claimed.
Moreover, Israeli sources reported that a 15-year old was moderately injured when a homemade shell hit a Kibbutz in the Western Negev.
The youth is a Bedouin from Rahat, in the Western Negev. Another homemade shell hit a farm in Eretz area.
Earlier on Wednesday, a 15-year old child from Beit Hanoun, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, succumbed to wounds she suffered last month.
Hanan Abu Odah was injured when Israeli army opened fire at her and her family killing her father and brother. Her younger sister was injured by three bullets while Hanan was hit by eight rounds of live ammunition.
http://www.imemc.org/article/21568 21 apr 2012, 01:32 , Respect -
Ali Dahroj, 15
Sami Dahroj, 19
Ala Saqer Dahrouj abu-Dahrouj
Five killed, more than seven injured in the Gaza strip
In separate Israeli attacks on both the northern and southern parts of the Gaza Strip early Thursday, five Palestinians have been killed, two of whom bled to death in Rafah when Israeli forces prevented ambulances from reaching them, and three of whom were killed by a missile fired by an unmanned Israeli 'drone' aircraft -- a type of weapon that is automated to fire at 'anything that moves'.
Mohamed Abu Mo'amer was killed Thursday during an ongoing Israeli offensive in the northern areas of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza strip, raising Thursday's death toll to five in the Gaza strip, Dr Ali Moussa, the director of Rafah hospital reported. Mo'amer died from bleeding to death after the Israeli army prevented ambulances from evacuating the injured by opening fire at the ambulances. Dr. Moussa also said that Abu Mo'amer was wounded in his right leg and bled to death, and that some of the injured suffered severe burns indicating the possible use of illegal weapons.
Earlier today in Rafah, 45 year old I'timad Mo'amer (no relation to Mohamed) died of wounds she sustained late Wednesday night when Israeli army troops stormed northern Rafah. During that invasion, seven were injured, five of them from her family. Dr. Ali Moussa noted that I'timad Mo'amer suffered from severe loss of blood before she was able to reach the hospital, also due to the Israeli forces preventing an ambulance from reaching her.
Medical sources said that Mo'amer died after being hit with several live rounds in the head and chest; she was injured along with seven others, two of whom are now in a critical condition in hospital. The invasion started when several Israeli armored vehicles stormed the area, apparently in an attempt to seize a member of the Islamic Jihad as a prisoner. Special army units kidnapped Salah Bahloul, the 'wanted' man, after ambushing him, troops also took six other residents, including five from the same family.
Also on Thursday morning three residents were killed after an Israeli drone fired several missiles at a group of residents in Jabalia town north of the Gaza strip.
Medical sources said the three were Zidan Abu Rashed, 17, Ali Dahroj, 17, and Sami Dahroj, 19, the sources added that the three bodies were severely mutilated and it was very difficult to identify them, the three were moved to Kamal Adwan hospital near Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza.
A report prepared and published by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza documenting the Israeli violations in the period between September 14 and September 20, revealed that Israeli troops killed three Palestinians, and one child succumbed to earlier wounds.
http://www.imemc.org/article/21586 21 apr 2012, 01:32 , Respect -
Zidan Rafiq Muhammad abu-Rashid, 16
Muhammad Selmi Muhammad Masalha, 17 - 21 sept 2006
Mohamed Abu Mo'amer 27
I'timad Mo'amer, 45 (no relation to Mohamed)
(Remember site) 21 apr 2012, 01:32 , Respect -
Maria 23 sept 2007
Ali Saed Matar
21 apr 2012, 01:32 , Respect -
Maria 25 sept 2006
Report: Israeli forces abducted 800 Palestinians, killed 300 and injured 1000 in three months
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Maria 27 sept 2006
B'Tselem Accuses Israeli Army of War Crimes
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Maria 27 sept 2006
Damaliz Ahmad Muhammad Hamad, 14,
Child killed, fourteen civilians injured in an Israeli shelling to a Rafah house
Palestinian medical sources in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, reported that one child was killed and at least fourteen residents were injured in an Israeli air strike that targeted a Palestinian house in Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
Dr. Ali Mousa, head of Abu Yousef Al Najjar Hospital in Rafah, reported that Azza Ahmad Hammad, 14, was killed by the Israeli strike. Fourteen residents were injured, three seriously.
Mousa added that the body of Hammad was severely mutilated after she was hit by missile fragments. The mother of the child was also injured in the strike along with thirteen other residents who suffered moderate wounds.
Three residents, suffering sever injuries were transferred to The Gaza-European Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.
The shelled house belongs to resident Sami Al Sha'er. The house was shelled two times and was totally destroyed.
The Israeli army claimed that troops attacked the house because it is “used as cover to dig a tunnel under the border with Egypt for weapons smuggling.
On Tuesday, a Palestinian security source said that Palestinian policemen uncovered tunnel along the Gaza-Egypt borders. The tunnel were dug 25 meters underground and reached the Egyptian side.
Meanwhile, Palestinian security forces sealed the tunnel during the day and said that it was most likely dug for criminal purposes and not by resistance fighters.
http://www.imemc.org/article/21686
21 apr 2012, 01:32 , Respect -
Maria 28 sept 2006
Medhat Omar Jamal
29 sept 2006
Hamam Abdul-Ghani Muhammad Hamdan, 13,
Anwar Abdul-Ghani Muhammad Hamdan, 16
Two children killed by Israeli missile strike in Gaza
Palestinian medical sources in Gaza reported Friday morning that two children were killed and three others were injured when an Israeli drone fired a missile at them in Beit Hanoun town, north of the Gaza Strip.
Eyewitnesses reported that the two kids were riding their bikes when an Israeli drone fired several missiles at them, killing them and injuring another three. The five were moved to Kamal Adwan Hospital. According to medical sources, the two bodies were too mutilated to identify.
Army sources claimed that the airplane targeted a group of Palestinian fighters who had been firing homemade Qassam shells at Israeli soldiers.
Earlier at dawn several Israeli tanks and bulldozers stormed Jabalia town and Beit Lahia towns, north of the Gaza Strip and fired randomly at residents’ homes while bulldozers destroyed a large areas of farmland.
http://www.imemc.org/article/21736
21 apr 2012, 01:32 , Respect -
Maria 30 sept 2006
Husam Faiz Muhammad Ghayad 23
Bassam Salamah Barrak Ben Hammad 26
residents of Rafah, killed in Rafah, by a missile fired from a helicopter. Did not participate in hostilities when killed. Killed while walking with his friend in a-Salam neighborhood.