Hamas Leader's 14-Year-Old Daughter, Maryam Tala'at Ma'arouf, Assassinated by an Israeli Occupation Forces Death Squad, 7 Injured, 3 Kidnapped

14-year-old girl killed by Israeli occupation forces in northern Gaza

Date: 26 / 04 / 2008 Time: 12:25
Gaza – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces killed a 14-year-old girl, Maryam Tala'at Ma'arouf, and injured her mother, Samyah Ma'arouf, along with six others during an incursion in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday, witnesses said.

Israeli occupation special forces (death squads), with helicopters hovering overhead, invaded Beit Layiha at dawn, surrounding the house of Hamas leader Samyah Ma'arouf. Witnesses said the Israeli troops opened fire on the house, killing the child. The Israeli occupation death squad engaged in a heavy exchange of fire with Palestinian fighters in the area.

The Israeli occupation forces death squad withdrew at 7:30am after seizing Tal'at Ma'rouf.

Muawiyah Hassanain, the director of emergency and ambulance services in the Palestinian Health Ministry, identified some of the wounded: 40-year-old Saleh Ma'rouf, Saleh Ma'rouf, 27-year-old Zuhair Sobh, Ziad, 28-year-old Mustafa Sobh, 25-year-old Ahmad Abd al-Muttalib Al-Kahlout, 14-Year-old Al-Kahlout. All of the injured were treated at Kamal Udwan Hospital in northern Gaza.

Palestinian resistance fighters claimed to have forced the Israeli occupation forces death squad to retreat. The National Resistance Brigades, the armed wing of the left-wing Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), said it engaged in armed confrontations with Israeli occupation forces near the Al-Baraka Mosque in northern Gaza, claiming that there may be casualties on the Israeli side.

The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and the Al-Aqsa Brigades, the armed wing of Fatah, claimed responsibility for attacking Israeli occupation special forces in the Ash-Shayma' area north of Beit Lahiya at dawn.

The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad, also said they clashed with the Israeli occupation forces that infiltrated in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

The Al-Nasser Salahuddin Brigades also claimed to have clashed with the Israeli unit that infiltrated to the area.

For its part, the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, clashed with the Israeli occupation forces at dawn on Saturday in Al-Da'our area.

Israeli occupation tanks, bulldozers enter southern Gaza

Date: 26 / 04 / 2008 Time: 13:29
Gaza – Ma'an –

Five occupation Israeli tanks and two armored bulldozers entered the Gaza Strip near the Kerem Shalom (Karem Abu Salem) crossing point just after noon on Saturday, witnesses said.

Witnesses added that the bulldozers are clearing the area where Hamas fighters attacked the crossing point with car bombs last week. Thirteen Israeli soldiers were wounded in that attack.

Palestinian police officer shot by Israeli occupation settlers

Date: 26 / 04 / 2008 Time: 13:21
Nablus – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation settlers shot a Palestinian police officer near the West Bank village of Yasuf, south of Nablus, before fleeing on Thursday, witnesses said.

Twenty-four-year-old Issam Abdul Qader Isa said that six Israelis, apparently from the nearby Kfar Tappuah settlement, opened fire at him while he was standing near his house on Thursday.

Isa was treated at Yasser Arafat Hospital in the town of Salfit for wounds on his hands. Medics called his injuries "moderate."

Issa works at a training center for Palestinian police officers near the West Bank city of Jericho.

Three Palestinians kidnapped from Tulkarem refugee camp, including one industrial zone worker
Date: 26 / 04 / 2008 Time: 11:07
Tulkarem – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces kidnapped three Palestinians from Tulkarem refugee camp in the northern West Bank at dawn on Saturday, one of them a worker at the Israeli occupation industrial zone where two guards were killed by Palestinian fighters on Thursday.

Palestinian security sources said that a large number of Israeli occupation troops invaded the camp from the west. The Palestinian security forces, on a request from the Israeli occupation forces, withdrew from the streets before the raid began, the sources said.

Israeli occupation soldiers kidnapped Jihad Riyad Al-Maghrebi (age unknown), 29-year-old Thaer Ibrahim Abed Rabbo, and 26-year-old Nimr Abu Tammam. Abed Rabbo currently works at the industrial zone, and Abu Tammam worked there until six months ago, local sources said.

Witnesses said Israeli occupation troops searched dozens of houses, including one belonging to Muhamad Kheryoush, a resident of the refugee camp.

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