2 Palestinians Killed in Nablus by Israeli Occupation Forces, Including 70-Year-Old Innocent Civilian Man

Leader of Al-Aqsa Brigades and 70-year-old man killed in Israeli attack in Nablus

Date: 16 / 10 / 2007 Time: 10:32

(Ma'anImages) Nablus –Ma'an –

The leader of the Al-Aqsa Brigades, the armed group of Fatah in Nablus in the northern West Bank, was killed on Tuesday morning by an Israeli shell.

Thirty-five-year-old Basil Abu Sirriyya, also known as Al-Gaddafi, was killed and two of his escorts were seriously injured in the attack.

Medical sources named those injured as Muhammad Shinawi and Allam Al-Ra'i. Shinawi lost one of his legs and was injured in his pelvis. Al-Ra'i suffered burns to different parts of his body.

Seventy-year-old Abed Al-Wazir was also killed when he was shot in the chest as he opened the front door of his home in the old city of Nablus, according to Palestinian medical sources.

The spokesperson of the Israeli army expressed his sorrow at the death of Abed Al-Wazir. "During the military operation in Nablus, armed clashes erupted between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants, and the elderly Palestinian citizen received a mortal gunshot," he said.

He pointed out that the Israeli forces had asked for an ambulance from the Red Cross to evacuate man but he died before the ambulance arrived.

Palestinian security sources said Israeli forces conducted a large-scale incursion into the old city of Nablus. The invading troops launched an Energia shell towards Palestinian fighters in Ksheika Street, killing Abu Sirriyya and injuring his companions. The spokesperson of the Al-Aqsa Brigades, Mahdi Abu Ghazala, vowed to retaliate against the Israeli attack.

He confirmed that the Israelis had been chasing Abu Sirriyya for seven years and that he had survived several targeted assassination attempts.

Thirty-six-year-old , Alaa Badarna, a photojournalist from the German-based European Press photo agency, received four rubber bullets to his back while he was covering the Israeli incursion in Nablus.

According to Ma'an's photojournalist, Rami Swaidan, who witnessed the incident, Israeli troops hit Badarna as journalists headed to Rafedya hospital to cover the funeral of Abu Sirriyya.

IOF troops kill elderly Palestinian in W. Bank incursion

[ 16/10/2007 - 08:08 PM ]

NABLUS, (PIC)--

Two Palestinian citizens, including 70-year-old man, were killed by IOF troops as tens of Israeli occupation forces (IOF) armored vehicles pushed into the West Bank city of Nablus at dawn Tuesday, Palestinian sources affirmed.

The sources identified the elderly Palestinian as Abd Shaker Wazeer, affirming that he was shot dead by a band of Israeli soldiers immediately after he opened the door of his house on their orders.

He was rushed to the hospital in critical condition but, the sources added, he died along the way before he could reach the hospital due to the soldiers' deliberate blocking of the ambulance that transported him.

The second Palestinian fatality was identified as Bassim Abu Surreyya, one of the Palestinian resistance field commanders in Nablus city, who died of wounds he had sustained in earlier clashes with the invading IOF troops in the refugee camp.

Three other Palestinian fighters were critically wounded when the intruding IOF troops unleashed a missile at one of the houses in the city the fighters had sought as shelter.

Fierce armed clashes erupted between tens of Israeli occupation soldiers backed by at least 30 armored vehicles and apache choppers on the one hand, and few Palestinian resistance fighters belong to the Faris Al-Lail (Night Knight) armed group which is an offshoot of Fatah faction on the other hand.

The IOF troops were seen cordoning off the Ettehad and the Watani hospital in the city with the aim to block and arrest wounded Palestinian fighters in the event they are brought to those hospitals for treatment.

However, local eyewitnesses affirmed that the fighting was still going on at the Biet Ein Al-Ma'a refugee camp, a stronghold of the Faris Al-Lail group, amidst persistent reports that the IOF troops were posing to demolish one of the buildings in the camp on a number of Palestinian fighters entrenched inside and rejecting calls from IOF troops to give up.

The armed group was one of the Palestinian resistance factions that rejected Israel's "deceptive" amnesty and refused to lay down their weapons, vowing to "continue on the path of resistance till the full liberation of occupied Palestine".

Tens of Fatah fighters believed to be associated with the mutiny trend within the faction had surrendered their weapons to the PA security apparatuses on Israeli and Abbas promises that they won't be pursued or arrested by the IOF troops.

Yet, facts on the ground proved that those promises were only fictitious pledges as IOF troops arrested a number of those fighters after they surrendered and gave up the resistance option.

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