6 Palestinians Killed by Israeli Occupation Forces, Including Two Teenage Boys, in Gaza Strip

IOF troops kill two children with ground-to-ground missile

[ 25/10/2007 - 11:08 AM ]

KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)--

Israeli occupation forces (IOF) troops fired a ground-to-ground missile on Wednesday evening on the Tel Kulaibo area to the east of Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinian children and wounding three other citizens, thus increasing the Palestinian death toll to six victims in 48 hours.

Palestinian medical sources in the Shahid Kamal Odwan hospital confirmed that the ambulances rushed to the scene to transfer the torn bodies of Abdo Abu Askar, 15, and Muhammed Kallab, 14, to the hospital in addition to three other Palestinians who suffered minor and medium shrapnel wounds.

In retaliation to the Israeli ongoing aggressions against the Palestinian people, the Salahuddin Brigades, the armed wing of the popular resistance committees, announced that they fired on Wednesday evening nine homemade rockets on the Israeli settlement outposts of Sderot, Majdal (Ashkelon) and Kfar Ra'im in addition to other Israeli military posts.

For its part, Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, claimed responsibility for firing on Wednesday evening four homemade rockets on the Israeli Sderot settlement outpost.

The IOF troops had lately escalated their aggressions on the Palestinian people, where they assaulted Palestinian prisoners and killed one of them in addition to assassinating two resistance fighters in Jenin and a senior official in the interior ministry while he was boarding his car.

In a new Israeli escalation, Palestinian local sources confirmed to a PIC reporter that Israeli special forces infiltrated at dawn Thursday into Fakhari village to the southeast of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, storming a number of Palestinian houses.

The sources added that the IOF troops, reinforced by tanks and bulldozers and amid intensive flying of fighter jets, detained and interrogated Palestinian citizens, while the Israeli bulldozers were sabotaging agricultural lands.

Two Qassam fighters killed in confrontation with intruding IOF unit

[ 25/10/2007 - 11:26 AM ]

KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)--

Two fighters affiliated with the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas Movement, were killed at dawn Thursday while confronting an IOF special unit that was attempting to infiltrate through the eastern borders of Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip.

The armed wing said in a communiqué that Ayman Fusaifes and Ahmed Tabash, both 23-year-old, were killed in an armed confrontation with an advancing IOF special unit in Abbasan Al-Kabira village east of Khan Younis district.

It said that the two Qassam members had bravely fought several battles with the occupiers and would be avenged at the opportune time and place.

Local sources said that the IOF soldiers tried to infiltrate into the area at dawn but were met with the Qassam fighters who forced the troops to retreat.

For his part, an IOF spokesman acknowledged the clash, adding that the two resistance fighters were killed when they approached the security fence separating the Gaza Strip from the Palestinian lands occupied in 1948 while pursuing the IOF unit members.

Eyewitnesses said that they heard heavy firing in the area and saw intensified hovering of IOF choppers.

Invading Israeli occupation forces kill six Palestinians in the Gaza Strip

Date: 25 / 10 / 2007 Time: 11:20

Gaza - Ma'an -

The death toll in Gaza Strip rose to six on Thursday after Islamic Jihad's Al-Quds Brigades announced the death of two of their activists in clashes with Israeli occupation forces.

Al-Quds Brigades spokesperson Abu Hamza told Ma'an that the victims were killed while fighting the Israeli special forces near the site of an evacuated Israeli settlement in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip.

Abu Hamza said ambulance crews were unable to reach the scene of the battle in order to remove the bodies.

Khan Younis fighting

In an earlier attack in southern Gaza, Palestinian medical sources said two activists affiliated with Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades named Ayman Fusaifes and Ahmad Al-Batsh arrived dead at the hospital. Both had been shot several times while fighting Israeli forces by the border fence in the town of Abasan, east of Khan Younis.

Local residents said Israeli forces have been operating in their neighborhood almost every day, ultimately provoking armed Palestinian fighters to react to their presence.

Beit Lahiya shelling

Earlier Wednesday evening, two Palestinians were killed and three were wounded when Israeli artillery shelled a crowd of people in the town of Beit Lahiya, at the northern end of the Gaza Strip.

Muawiya Hassanein, the director of emergency services in the Palestinian Health Ministry said that the bodies of twenty-year-old Muhammad Kalob and Abdu Abu Askar were taken in ambulances to Kamal Udwan hospital. The bodies had apparently been "torn to pieces."

In response to the deadly attack, Palestinian fighters launched 16 homemade projectiles toward Israeli towns bordering the Gaza Strip.

The An-Nasser Salahuddin Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), claimed responsibility for launching seven projectiles at Sderot and Zikim.

Fateh's Al-Aqsa Brigades, and the Al-Nasser Salah Al-Din Brigades said they launched three projectiles at a military post at Kisufim and three more at Kfar Re'im in a joint operation.

Islamic Jihad's Al-Quds Brigades also claimed responsibility for launching four homemade projectiles at Sderot.

Meanwhile, the Israeli government announced Wednesday that it is considering a plan for further sanctions on Gaza Strip, including cutting off electricity and fuel supplies.

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