Palestinian Resistance Commander Nafedh Mansoor Assassinated, Two Children Injured by Israeli Occupation Forces in Rafah, Khan Younis

IOF troops assassinate Qassam commander in aerial bombing
[ 01/05/2008 - 10:45 AM ]

RAFAH, (PIC)--

A field commander in the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas Movement, was killed on Thursday in an IOF aerial bombing on Shabura refugee camp in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip.
Medical and security sources told PIC reporter that Nafedh Mansoor, 40, was critically wounded in the IOF air raid then died in hospital.

They noted that three other civilians were wounded in the missile blast, fired by an IOF drone, including a little girl.

Meanwhile, in Khan Younis, also in southern Gaza Strip, a 12-year-old boy was hit with an IOF bullet in the head during those forces' ongoing incursion east of Khan Younis on Thursday.

The IOF escalation follows the Palestinian resistance factions' approval of an Egyptian offer for a six-month calm with the IOF in Gaza to be extended later to include the West Bank.

Hamas: We will not remain silent vis-à-vis occupation crimes

[ 01/05/2008 - 11:03 AM ]
GAZA, (PIC)--

The Hamas Movement on Thursday said it won't remain silent vis-à-vis Zionist occupation's "brutal" crimes the latest was the assassination of a field commander in the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas.

Hamas spokesman in Khan Younis, south of the Strip, Hammad Al-Ruqub said that all options before the Palestinian people were open to retaliate to the IOF aggression as long as it was foiling all attempts to secure calm.

Ruqub said in a press release that the IOF troops' crimes at a time efforts are being made to reach a truce re-affirm the Israeli occupation "bloody policy" and insistence on retaining a state of instability in the region.

He pointed out that such crimes indicate that the "enemy only understands the language of blood and force".
Israeli air strike on Rafah kills one activist; injures teenage girl

Date: 01 / 05 / 2008 Time: 10:24
Gaza – Ma'an –

A Palestinian activist from Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades was killed and a 13-year-old girl was injured when an Israeli reconnaissance plane fired a missile at Shabora refugee camp in the Rafah district in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday morning.

Mu'awiya Hassanain, the director of ambulance and emergency services in the Palestinian health ministry, identified the dead activist as 40-year-old Nafedh Mansoor. He said the fighter succumbed to his wound minutes after he was evacuated to Abu Yousif Al-Najjar Hospital in Khan Younis. The teenage girl was identified as 13-year-old Khulud Al-Injili. She was also taken to the same hospital.

The escalation in violence comes one day after Palestinian factions agreed on an Egyptian-proposed bilateral ceasefire with the Israelis, which is pending Israeli approval. Head of the Egyptian intelligence service Umar Sulaiman will submit the proposal to the Israelis in the coming days.

12-year-old boy shot in head as Israeli occupation forces invade Khan Younis

Date: 01 / 05 / 2008 Time: 09:35
Gaza – Ma'an –

A 12-year-old Palestinian boy was shot and seriously injured when several Israeli occupation military vehicles entered the Al-Faraheen neighborhood of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday morning.

Palestinian medical sources said that Imad Qdaih was shot in the head and
was evacuated to Ash-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.

Eyewitnesses said that eight military vehicles and three bulldozers invaded the area at 4am and began digging up agricultural lands, demolishing houses and apprehending Palestinians.

Clashes erupted between the invading forces and Palestinian gunmen. No casualties have been reported.

The military wing affiliated to Islamic Jihad said their fighters fired several mortar shells towards at the invading Israeli forces.

Israeli occupation army kills a Palestinian fighter, injures two children during separate attacks in southern Gaza

Thursday May 01, 2008 12:57 by Rami Al Meghari & Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News

Palestinian sources reported that one Palestinian fighter was killed and two children were injured by the Israeli occupation army fire in separate attacks targeting the southern part of the Gaza Strip on Thursday morning.

The Qassam Brigades the armed wing of the Hamas movement stated that an Israeli unmanned airplane fired missile at Nafedh Mansoor, 40, a leader in the brigades and killed him.

Witnesses said that Mansoor was walking in one of the streets of Al-Shabura Refugee camp located near Rafah city when the unmanned airplane attacked him, he sustained critical wounds and died later in the hospital, Khoulod Ingeliy, a bystander child was injured in the attack medical sources reported.

Meanwhile Imad Kadeh, 12, sustained critical wounds after he was shot by the Israeli army in the head during and invasion targeting Al-Faraheen area east of Khan Younis town located in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

Local sources said that a number of Israeli occupation army tanks and bulldozers invaded Al-Faraheen earlier on Thursday and started to open fire randomly at resident homes, eyewitnesses said that the invasion is still on going.

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