Six Palestinian resistance fighters killed as they infiltrate Israeli military site, Brigades claim 

Date: 06 / 09 / 2007 Time: 16:17

Gaza – Ma'an – 

Six Palestinian resistance fighters from the Al-Quds Brigades and Al-Aqsa Brigades were killed during an attack against the Migun Israeli military site, east of the Al-Maghazi refugee in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, the Brigades claim.

A spokesman for the Al-Aqsa Brigades, Abu Tha'ir, said that the Palestinian fighters, ready to blow themselves up, were able to infiltrate the military site driving a truck filled with bombs.

The spokesman told Ma'an via telephone that the operation lasted more than half an hour, and that three Israeli soldiers were hit as one of the bombers blew himself up inside the military post.

An unnamed spokesman from Al-Quds Brigades said that it was a joint operation and was still ongoing. Clashes between the Brigades and Israeli forces are taking place, he added.

Eyewitnesses reported that they could see flames billowing from inside the military site.

However, Israeli press sources said that Israeli forces had foiled a Palestinian military raid on an Israeli military base in Gaza near the entrance to (the former illegal Israeli settlement of) Kfar Darom.

The sources added that the Palestinians were very close to the military site in a truck and another car. Israeli aircraft attacked the two Palestinian vehicles, injuring the truck's occupants. Those inside the car fled the scene.

No further information on the condition of the injured or there whereabouts was mentioned by the press sources.

Ten Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip on Thursday

Friday September 07, 2007 00:14 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC saed at imemc dot org

Palestinian sources reported that the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip on Thursday arrived to ten. Six fighters were killed while attacking a military base, one was killed by a shell, and three were killed earlier in the day during a military invasion.

Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, stated that six fighters managed to infiltrate into an Israeli military base, east of Al-Maghazi refugee camp, in the Central Gaza Strip. The fighters used two armored vehicles.

The fighters exchanged fire with Israeli occupation soldiers, and five of them were killed during the clashes while the sixth carried a suicide attack by driving a wired vehicle and detonating it near an armored Israeli military vehicle.

The attack targeted Abu Safiyya military camp, north of Kissufim Crossing. The army fired tank shells and missiles and called for enforcements.

The spokesperson of the Al-Quds Brigades stated that the six fighters who were killed in the attack are members of the Brigades, and members of Ayman Jouda Brigades. They were identified as Tala’at Al-Khateeb, Mohammad Al-Hassy, Mustafa Al-Lababeedy, Nadheer Mushtaha, Hamza Mohammad Nassr, and Mahmoud Salama.

A seventh fighter who participated in the attack managed to escape unharmed.

In a separate incident, the Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, stated that one of its fighters was killed by a tank shell during an Israeli occupation forces invasion to an area east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

The fighter was identified as Mohammad Al Abadla, 30.

In Dair Al-Balah, in the center of the Gaza Strip, a missile fired by the army landed in farmlands causing damages but no injuries.

Israeli military sources stated on Thursday that the attacks carried by the Palestinian fighters aimed at taking over a military base in an attempt to abduct soldiers.

The sources added that the wired vehicle used by the fighters contained hundreds of kilograms of explosives.

On Thursday afternoon, three Palestinian fighters were killed during a military offensive to Al-Qarara area, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

The three resistance fighters were killed when Israeli army tanks shelled residents' homes and groups of resistance fighters.

Medical sources identified the three as Mohamed Al Abdullah, 30 from the Al-Qassam Brigades, Ghassan Al-Saqqa, 25, and Mohamed Abu Lobdah, both from the Islamic Jihad.

 

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The Israeli settlements as well as the Land-Grab, Apartheid Wall in the Palestinian occupied territories have been built illegally on confiscated Palestinian lands. These represent a major violation of international law, Geneva Conventions, and they obstruct reaching a peaceful resolution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

The Israeli occupation forces abduct and kidnap Palestinians from their homes and at checkpoints, on daily basis. Most media refer to these abductions and kidnappings as arrests, which is inaccurate and not true as the Israeli occupation government has no jurisdiction over Palestinian citizens inside their own territories.

Further, when Israeli occupation forces kill Palestinian civilians, particularly when the victims are women and children, this should be referred to as an act of terrorism, and perpetrators should be described as terrorists.

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.

Note to Journalists:

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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