11 Palestinians Killed in Israeli Raids on Gaza Strip, in 24 hours

Two Al-Qassam fighters killed in Gaza Strip, bringing death toll in Gaza to 11 in 24 hours

Date: 04 / 01 / 2008 Time: 11:37

Gaza – Ma'an –

Two Al-Qassam Brigades fighters were killed in clashes with Israeli forces in Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip on Friday.

The deaths of Muhammad Awad Al-Kafarna and Muhammad Naser Al-Kafarna, during the dawn clashes, bring the number of dead to 11 in the past 24 hours in the coastal enclave.

Eyewitnesses said that Israeli forces fired seven missiles at groups of resistance fighters as they penetrated three kilometers inside Beit Hanoun. More than 25 citizens were also injured in the incursion.

Nine people died on Thursday during Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip. Twenty-five-year-old Atallah Qishta, a Fateh' member detained by Hamas, died after Israeli helicopters launched three missiles at the place he was being held.

Al-Qassam Brigades member twenty-three-year-old Yasser Hillis died when Israeli warplanes targeted the Al-Shuja'eyah neighbourhood of Gaza City.

Five people from the same family were killed when Israeli artillery fired missiles at the family's home in Bani Suhayla in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday. Karima Fayyad, 52, and her sons Ahmad, 32, and Sami, 32, her 15-year-old daughter Asma and her nephew Muhammad, 18, died in the attack.

Two Al-Qassam Brigades members also died on Thursday. They were Muneer Barham, 20, and Barham Abu Lihya, also in his twenties.

IOF kill 11 Palestinians in 24 hours, including five members of the same family

[ 04/01/2008 - 11:39 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

Two Qassam Brigades fighters were killed Friday morning while confronting invading Israeli occupation forces (IOF) troops in the northern Gaza Strip bringing the number of those killed by the IOF in the past 24 hours to 11 including 5 Qassam fighters and 5 members of the same family.

The Qassam Brigades mourned, in a statement issued on Friday, two of its fighters in Beit Hanoon. The two were killed in confrontations with IOF troops who invaded Mazra't al-Basha to the east of Beit Hanoon in the northern Gaza Strip.

"Despite the siege and the open war against the our resistance and our thriving Brigades, despite the siege and the conspiracy against our cause and our people, the Qassam Brigades remains in the battlefield carving the rocks and fighting an asymmetrical battle to protect the holiness of this land and defend the honour of the Ummah," the statement read.

The IOF committed a massacre on Thursday morning against the Fayyad family during an incursion to the east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip and when the invading IOF troops shelled the house of Hamdan Fayyad killing five members of the family.

Local sources told PIC that the victims of this massacre were: Karimah Fayyad (55 years), her two sons Ahmad and Sami aged 32 and 23 respectively, her daughter, aged 22 and her nephew aged 17. Other family members were wounded in the shelling.

Two resistance fighters were also killed while confronting the invading IOF troops in Khan Younis.

On Thursday evening one Qassam fighter was killed in an Israeli air raid to the east of Shuja'eyah neighbourhood in Gaza City and three civilians including two children were wounded.

Another civilian was killed and three policemen were wounded on Thursday in an Israeli air raid on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

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