3 Palestinians Killed by Israeli Occupation Forces Attacks on Gaza Strip

Israeli artillery fire on northern Gaza leaves two Palestinians dead

Wednesday January 09, 2008 18:21 by Rami Almeghari - IMEMC&Agencies rami at imemc dot org

Two Palestinians including a woman have been reportedly killed and three others wounded Wednesday when the Israeli artillery opened heavy fire towards a gathering of Palestinians near a house in the northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanoun.

illustration photo Witnesses said that the Israeli fire hit Palestinian-owned house in the city, where a group of people were gathering just close to the house.

Medical sources confirmed the death of Khadra Wahdan, a woman of her twenties and Mohammad al-Kafarna, a 16-year-old teen, as well as the injury of three others in the latest Israeli shelling.

Earlier in the day , the Israeli army fire claimed the life of one Palestinian fighter and injured six others during an attack on the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahya.

Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahyia are the closest destinations to the northern Gaza-Israel border line, where Israeli army claims Palestinian resistance groups launch homemade shells onto nearby Israeli towns.

Israeli army , over the past week, has killed more than twenty Palestinians, a number of whom were civilians inside homes, during attacks on different parts of the Hamas-run coastal territory.

The latest deaths come as Gorge W. Bush of the United States, has just started a visit to the region in a bid to push stalled Palestinian-Israeli peace process, relaunched by Washington in November 2007.

In September, 2007, Israel declared Gaza a 'hostile entity' and in October it began a series of 'apparently' punitive measures, including fuel supplies cut, Israel says are intended at stopping homemade shells fire.

In June2007, Israel imposed a complete closure on Gaza, right after Hamas took over the coastal region amidst a power struggle with Fatah party of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas who favors peace with Israel.

According to Palestinian media sources, Palestinian death toll is estimated at 5.500 men, women and children, since the outbreak of Palestinian uprising (Intifada) in September,2000, as the peace process deadlocked.

Israeli military kills one Palestinian, wounds six in missile strike on Gaza

Wednesday January 09, 2008 09:49 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies saed at imemc dot org

Early Wednesday morning, the Israeli military fired a surface-to-surface missile at a group of Palestinians that they claimed were launching a homemade shell from the northern Gaza Strip.

The Islamic Jihad confirmed that one of its fighters had been killed by an Israeli missile and six had been injured, two of them critically. According to the Israeli occupation Army Radio, several Palestinian shells were fired toward the Negev desert prior to the missile strike, with no injuries or damage reported. Over the last six years, 12 Israelis have been killed by Palestinian homemade shells.

Israeli authorities use this as a justification for their ongoing occupation and attacks against the Palestinian people. In the last six years, Israeli forces have killed 4,765 Palestinians. Israeli forces have killed nine Palestinians in the past several days.

Palestinian activist killed, five injured in Israeli strike on Gaza Strip

Date: 09 / 01 / 2008 Time: 09:11

Gaza – Ma'an –

Palestinian activist was killed and five others injured on Wednesday morning when Israeli artillery fired three missiles at a group of activists in the town of Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.

Two were seriously injured.

Palestinian medical sources said the dead man was Amjad Abdul-Dayim. His corpse was torn to pieces when it arrived at Kamal Udwan hospital. The five injured people also arrived at Kamal Udwan hospital. Sources said the group was about to fire homemade projectiles at Israeli targets when they were shelled.

The military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, the An-Nasser Salah Addin Brigades, said that their fighters launched six homemade projectiles at the Israeli town Sderot before the three Israeli missiles hit the rocket squad, killing twenty-six-year-old Amjad Abdul-Dayim.

Israeli helicopters continue to fly over the northern Gaza Strip, and a missile has been fired recently in the area.

***Updated at 11:01 local time

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