The Johr Al-Deek massacre is a resumption of Israel's holocaust of Gaza, says Hamas government

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[ 17/04/2008 - 09:54 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

The Gaza-based caretaker government headed by premier Ismail Haniya stated that the Johr Al-Deek massacre is a resumption of the Israeli holocaust against the Gaza people, adding that the growing number of Palestinians killed Wednesday is evidence of the organized terrorism practiced by Israeli occupation against besieged unarmed people.

A press statement received by the PIC, underlined that the Arab and Islamic silence, the international policy of double standards and the policy of justifying the Israeli crimes adopted by the PA leadership were encouragement for Israel to continue its massacres against the Palestinian children and women.

The government also invited Arab and Islamic leaders, governments, lawmakers and the Arab League to visit Gaza to see closely the destructive effects inflicted on the Strip as a result of Israel's aggressive policy.

For its part, the PLC presidency deplored the cowardly massacre committed by the Israeli occupation in the east of the Gaza city which claimed the lives of 13 Palestinian citizens, including women, children and a journalist.

The PLC presidency underscored that the Israeli massacre in the Johr Al-Deek is evidence of the bankruptcy of the criminal Israeli government after its troops failed to fight the Palestinians on the ground and resorted to the bombing of civilians from the air.

Six Israeli military helicopters fired Wednesday evening a barrage of air-to-ground missiles on a residential area in the Johr Al-Deek area in the central Gaza Strip which resulted in the death of 13 Palestinian citizens and the injury of more than 35 others, Palestinian eyewitnesses reported

According to medical sources, ambulances rushed to the scene and found difficulty in recovering the victims whose bodies were torn into pieces.

The medical sources added that among the victims was the Reuters cameraman Fadhil Shana'a who died immediately after an Israel tank shelled him with his car despite the fact that it was marked with a large sign reading "TV".

Earlier on the same day, the IOF troops killed at noon a Palestinian citizen and wounded five others in the north of the Beit Lahia town, northern Gaza Strip, as well as they killed at dawn four Palestinian resistance fighters affiliated with Al-Qassam Brigades during confrontations in the east of the Shuja'iyah neighborhood, east of the Gaza city.

Accordingly, the death toll of the Wednesday Israeli aggression on Gaza amounted to 18 Palestinians most of them were civilians.

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