Palestinian teenager shot dead by Israeli occupation soldiers at Karni crossing

The Israeli occupation army kills a Palestinian child in the eastern Gaza strip

Saturday September 08, 2007 14:27 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News ghassanb at imemc dot org

A Palestinian child was shot and killed by the Israeli occupation army near the eastern Gaza Israeli borders on Saturday afternoon.

Dr. Mo'awiyah Hassanain, the head of the Palestinian emergency department in the Gaza heath ministry said that Ramez Helles, 16, was shot and killed near the Karni crossing between Gaza and Israel.

Israeli army sources said that troops stationed at the borders identified a Palestinian youth approaching the border and they fired in air to force him to leave the area.

Witnesses and medics said that the child was hit directly with live rounds and died in the spot.

Earlier on Saturday one fighter of Al-Qassam Brigades the armed wing of the Hamas was killed during a resistance operation that targeted an Israeli military site near Gaza city.

The Al-Qassam brigades issued a press release stating that the killed fighter is Nabeel Abdul A'al, adding that he is one of the top leaders of the brigades in he costal region.

Palestinian teenager shot dead by Israeli occupation soldiers at Karni crossing 

Date: 08 / 09 / 2007 Time: 14:24

Gaza – Ma'an – 

A 17 year old Palestinian boy, Ramzi Hillis, was killed in Shuja'iya neighborhood in eastern Gaza city as Israeli occupation forces opened fire in the direction of Palestinian homes and farms.

Director of ambulance and emergency department at the Palestinian ministry of health, Mu'awiya Hassanain said that Hillis was hit by gunshots in the upper part of his body near the Karni border crossing east of Gaza city.

Hassanain said that the boy was hunting birds when the Israeli occupation troops fired at him. Hassanain reminded of dozens of Palestinian boys who were killed in a similar way.

The Israeli occupation army said their troops were monitoring a group of people approaching the crossing, and fired towards them in an attempt to disperse them. As a result, a boy was shot dead. The army claimed to be investigating the incident.

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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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