6 Palestinians Killed, Including a Woman and a 14-Year-Old Boy, in Israeli Assault on Gaza Strip

Woman, fourteen-year-old boy among six killed in 24 hours in Israeli assault on Gaza Strip

Date: 06 / 01 / 2008 Time: 15:28

Gaza – Ma'an –

Three people including a woman and a fourteen-year-old boy were killed and eight others were injured when an Israeli artillery shell hit a house in Al-Buraij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

Palestinian security sources said that the Israeli occupation forces targeted a house belonging to the Hamdan family in the eastern part of Al-Bureij camp. The dead women was identified as Eyman Hamdan.

Military sources also said that the eight injured people arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in the central Gaza Strip. They described most of the injuries as "moderate."

Our correspondent in Gaza Strip reported that twenty-nine-year-old Ahmad Khalaf was killed in a separate shelling. Mu'awiya Hassanain, the director of ambulance and emergency service in the Palestinian health ministry said that Khalaf arrived dead at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. Nails were found in his body.

Israeli strikes have left six Palestinians dead in less than 24 hours in the coastal Strip. On Saturday night and Sunday, three Palestinians were killed in separate Israeli strikes.

Israeli soldiers injured

Three Israeli occupation soldiers were also injured after Hamas' armed wing, the Al-Qassam brigades, launched rocket-propelled grenades (RPG) at invading Israeli forces the camp.

The Al-Qassam Brigades took responsibility for the operation in a press statement. Israeli media also reported that three soldiers had been wounded after a shell hit their tank in Al-Buraij.

Separately, the Al-Qassam Brigades said they launched mortar shells at Israeli military vehicles when they tried to enter At-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City.

Earlier, Israeli troops killed a Palestinian teenager named Ziad Abu Rukba by shooting him in the chest, witnesses in Al-Bureij said.

Israeli tanks entered the central Gaza Strip on Sunday morning. Witnesses said Israeli tanks bulldozed Palestinian farms.

***Updated at 17:35 local time

Israeli forces kill three Palestinians in Gaza Strip attacks; Olmert vows to escalate incursions

Date: 06 / 01 / 2008 Time: 10:19

Gaza – Ma'an –

Israeli occupation forces invaded the Gaza Strip in several separate incursions on Saturday night and Sunday, killing three Palestinians and wounding at least 10 others.

On Sunday morning Israeli forces killed seventeen-year-old Ziad Abu Rukba during an invasion of Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Abu Rukba was shot in the chest, witnesses said.

At the Israeli cabinet meeting on Sunday morning, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said his military would 'increase its operations' in response to what the Israeli government sees as intensified projectile attacks emerging from the coastal Strip. He said the Israeli defense minister has already ordered an escalation.

During a ground incursion in Gaza City's Ash-Shuja'iyya neighborhood on Saturday night, Israeli forces killed Mahmoud Al-Rub'i, an activist with the armed wing of the Popular Resistance committees, the An-Nasser Salah Addin Brigades. Two other activists were injured in that raid.

Earlier, Israeli artillery fired a shell near a school in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza Strip, killing Muhammad Abu Uda, an activist with Hamas' armed wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades. The shelling injured three others.

Mu'awiya Hassanain, the director of ambulance and emergency service in the Palestinian Health Ministry said that ambulances evacuated the torn corpse of Abu Uda and the three injured men to Kamal Udwan Hospital.

Over the past few days, at least 12 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks throughout the Gaza Strip.

Separately, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, the An-Nasser Salah Addin Brigades claimed responsibility for firing eight homemade projectiles at the Israeli town of Sderot, on the border with the Gaza Strip.

***Updated at 12:04 local time

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