7 Palestinians Killed in Gaza by Israeli Air Strikes

7 Palestinians killed in a bloody night of IOF raids

[ 01/07/2007 - 09:05 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- 

A series of IOF air raids on the Gaza Strip on Saturday killed seven Palestinians including a father and his son while 15 others were wounded.

Israeli F-16 warplanes blasted a foundry in central Gaza Strip with two missiles that killed three citizens including a father (the owner of the workshop) and his son, two of whom were identified as members of the AMB-Ayman Jouda, one of the armed wings of the Fatah faction, while three others were wounded.

A fourth Palestinian was later proclaimed dead in the same raid, medical sources said.

The Israeli warplanes later in the night returned and fired two missiles at the same foundry wounding five civilians one of whom was in critical condition.

Eyewitnesses said that the Israeli bombardment destroyed the workshop and started fires, adding that bodies of the martyrs were burnt in the blast.

The IOF warplanes had earlier on Saturday fired a missile at a civilian car in Khan Younis killing all three on board who turned out to be prominent members of the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement.

Paramedics said that the charred remains of the three activists were beyond recognition, adding that it took them a while to identify them.

IOF military sources acknowledged the raids, telling the Hebrew radio that the first one, which killed three operatives, targeted the assassination of Ziad Ghannam, one of the most prominent field commanders of the Quds Brigades in southern Gaza. They claimed that the three were planning a human bombing attack in the Israeli depth.

The broadcast said that Ghannam had a long record of attacks on occupation troops while a second one Mohammed Al-Ra'ee had fired an RPG at an IOF armored vehicle killing six soldiers.

Gazans mourn the deaths of seven citizens killed in Israeli air strikes 

Date: 01 / 07 / 2007 Time: 14:30

Photo taken in the aftermath of the first strike shows blood from the wreckage of the car (MaanImages) Gaza – Ma'an – Palestinian crowds in the central and southern districts of the Gaza Strip on Sunday participated in the funeral processions of seven Palestinians who were killed on Saturday in two Israeli air strikes.

Ma'an's correspondent in Rafah stated that dozens of gunmen from different Palestinian factions led the funeral procession of Raed Ghannam, aged 24, Ziad Ghannam, 42, and Muhammad Ar Ra'i, 38. The three victims were killed in an Israeli air strike on the vehicle they were traveling in, in Khan Younis.

Gunmen at the funeral procession vowed to avenge the deaths of their comrades.

Masses also took part in the funeral procession of Salah Quffa, aged 50, his son Iyad, 24, Samir Abu Musallam, 46, and Ali Al 'Aydi, 22. All of whom were killed in the second Israeli strike on a blacksmith's workshop in Al Mughazi refugee camp, in the central strip.

Al Mizan centre for human rights denounced the latest Israeli escalation in Gaza and the targeted assassinations of factional activists.

 

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