4 Palestinians Killed, 11 injured in Israeli occupation forces raid on Khan Younis 

4 dead and 11 injured in Israeli incursion in Khan Younis

Date: 06 / 09 / 2007 Time: 10:59

Khan Younis – Ma'an – 

Four Palestinian fighters were killed and eleven were injured defending their city, during an Israeli occupation incursion in south east Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip at dawn on Thursday.

Palestinian medical sources named the dead as: Muhammad Al-Abadlah, 30, Ghassan Al-Saqqa, 24, Muhammad Khattab Abu Libda, and Muhammad Baraka, age unknown.

Ma'an's correspondent said that Al-Abadlah is affiliated with Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades and Al-Saqqa and Abu Libda are affiliated with the Al-Quds Brigades of Islamic Jihad.

Three of the injured have been named as: Ahmad Al-Abadlah, 'Uthman Darhali, Ahmad Abed Al-Ghafoor, and Muhammad Al-Astal. The identities of the other seven injured are still unknown.

More than 13 Israeli occupation forces tanks, along with bulldozers went into the Al-Qarara area in south east Khan Younis through the Kissufim crossing and began firing on agricultural lands and houses under the cover of helicopter fire and aerial reconnaissance, eyewitnesses reported.

The eyewitnesses confirmed that the Israeli army and members of the Special Forces began to raid homes, searching them and destroying their contents, but did not make any arrests.

Armed clashes then ensued between Israeli occupation forces and Palestinian resistance brigades who were trying to prevent the invasion. They fired mortars and rocket propelled grenades at the Israeli tanks. Two Qassam Brigades members were moderately injured in the clashes.

Tensions are running high among Palestinians in the wake of increasing Israeli threats to invade the Gaza Strip. The increase in the number of Israeli helicopters flying over the area has added to already heightened tensions.

A Palestinian spokesman said that there had been an Israeli incursion a hundred metres from the Sufa crossing, south of the city of Rafah as well as a limited incursion into Beit Hanoun, in the north of the Gaza Strip. Palestinian resistance groups said they had fired a number of projectiles at Israeli forces in the Al-Qarara area of Khan Younis.

The Al-Qassam brigades claimed responsibility for blocking the Israeli incursion into Al-Qarara by firing at them nine rocket propelled grenades and three mortars.

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Since the end of the second intifadha in 2005, not a single Israeli civilian was killed by Palestinian resistance organizations. However, Palestinian civilians have been killed by Israeli occupation forces, almost on daily basis.

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Any journalist who does not describe this as terrorism is biased, unfair, not objective, and a participant in terrorizing the Palestinian people, so the Israeli occupation of Palestine can continue endlessly.

Note to Translators:

The Arabic definite article, Al (or its variant, El) should be written with a hyphen separating it from the noun it is associated with, for example Al-Aqsa. If a hyphen is not used, as in Al Aqsa, it confuses non-Arabic readers. They may think that it is an abbreviation of the name Albert, as many Americans do.

The Arabic definite article Al (or El) should be written as such, whether it is Shamsiyah or Qamariyah in pronunciation, simply because we are dealing with the written form of the language, not the spoken one. Using the Shamsiyah so many forms in writing is inaccurate and confusing to non-Arabic readers, to say the least.

Only standard (fasih) pronunciation of Arabic names should be used. Non-standard ('ammi)  should be avoided avoided. Example: Names like Abu Sunainah, Abu Rudainah, and Abu Shebak are written by some translators in the non-standard forms of Abu Snainah, Abu Rdainah, and Abu Shbak.

The standard pronunciation of the vowel at the end of names is (a), not (e), particularly if it is followed by (h), like in the cases of Haniyah and Rudainah, not Haniyeh and Rudaineh.

The standard pronunciation of vowels in the following names is (ai), not (ei) as written by  some translators: Hussain, not Hussein and Hassanain, not Hassanein. This is the same long vowel pronounced in the English words "rain" and "brain."

 

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