4 Palestinians Assassinated, 10 Kidnapped by Israeli Occupation Raids

Prisoner Dies in Negev Israeli Occupation Jail

RAMALLAH, October 23, 2007 (WAFA)-

Palestinian prisoner has died on Tuesday in al-Negev Israeli occupation prison of wounds he sustained yesterday when Israeli soldiers attacked prisoners in al- Negev Israeli jail.

Mohammed al-Ashqar was hit with several bullets in his body and he was taken to Soroko hospital in Ber Sheva but later was announced his death.

Al-Shqar was sentenced to three years and half and only remain three months for his sentence. He is a father of one child.

According to sources, Israeli prison guards used live ammunition and tear gas against the prisoners, which cause high tension in the prison which holds 2300 Palestinian prisoners.

PRC fighter killed in Israeli air strike near Gaza beach

Date: 23 / 10 / 2007 Time: 15:35

Gaza – Ma'an –

A leader of the Popular Resistance Committees' Al-Nasser Salah Al-Din Brigades, thirty-year-old Mubarak Hasanat, was assassinated on Tuesday when Israeli fighter jets shelled his car on the beach road, south of Gaza City.

The shell struck Hasanat's jeep near the Al-Zahra junction on Gaza beach.

Director of Ambulance and Emergency Department in the Palestinian Ministry of Health Dr Muawiya Hassanain said the body was transferred to Al-Zahra clinic.

Israeli occupation forces invade northern Gaza

Date: 23 / 10 / 2007 Time: 13:09

Gaza – Ma'an –

Eight Israeli military vehicles invaded the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanoun on Tuesday morning.

Eyewitnesses said that four bulldozers razed farmland, reinforced by four military vehicles.

Number one resistance fighter killed by Israeli occupation forces

Date: 23 / 10 / 2007 Time: 09:40

Jenin – Ma'an –

An Israeli undercover unit (a death squad) on Tuesday morning assassinated prominent leader of Islamic Jihad's armed wing the Al-Quds Brigades and his associate during armed confrontations in the northern West Bank town of Jenin.

A group of resistance fighters were besieged by the undercover force. An Israeli officer was reportedly injured in the clashes.

The Israeli forces also kidnapped nine Palestinians in the area.

The assassinated leader was identified as forty-three-year-old Shaikh Khaled Al-Rayiq, also known as Abu Al-Saqir (father of the falcon), from Tulkarem. His associate was named as Muhammad Jawabra, from the town of Kafr Ra'i, south of Jenin.

Eyewitnesses reported that an Israeli officer was moderately wounded and that the two Palestinians were killed by an Israeli shell which was launched at the besieged building where they were stationed.

A spokesperson of Islamic Jihad described the assassinated leader as the number one resistance fighter in the West Bank.

The bodies of the deceased were transferred to the government hospital in Jenin.

Reprisal attack

The Al-Quds Brigades claimed responsibility on Tuesday for firing a rocket-propelled grenade at an invading Israeli military vehicle in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip.

The brigades said the attack was in retaliation for the assassination of 'number one West Bank resistance fighter', Shaikh Khaled Al-Rayiq.

Israeli occupation forces storm West Bank village; kidnap one Palestinian

Date: 23 / 10 / 2007 Time: 12:29

Hebron – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday morning seized a Palestinian from the southern West Bank town of Idhna, west of Hebron.

Palestinian police sources said that the Israeli occupation forces stormed the town at dawn and ransacked several homes in the town centre, before seizing Ibrahim abu Juhaisha.

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