2 Palestinians Killed, A Third Dies of Wounds, One Injured, 20 Kidnapped by Israeli Occupation Forces

Two fighters killed east of Gaza, six Palestinians killed on Wednesday

Thursday May 15, 2008 03:55 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

Palestinian sources reported that two fighters of the Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, were killed late on Wednesday at night, and three others were injured after being targeted by Israeli shells east of Al-Shuja'iya neighborhood in Gaza City.

The attack took place shortly before midnight and targeted Mohammad Harara, and Ahmad Al-Malahi. The bodies of the two fighters were severely mutilated, medical sources reported.

Four Palestinians, including one fighter, were killed and fourteen residents were wounded during an early morning Israeli military attack that targeted Jabalia town, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, and Khan Younis in the southern part, the Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, reported on its website.

Among those three killed were Ibraheem Salaha, 19, who was hit with a tanks shell and Khader Salamah, 17, who was playing on his bicycle when Israeli soldiers shot him, witnesses stated. Palestinian security sources said that several Israeli tanks and armored vehicles swept earlier in the day into the vicinity of the eastern cemetery of Jabalaya, just close to the Israel-Gaza border lines. Earlier on Wednesday morning one fighter of the Al Qassam brigades of Hamas was killed and three others injured during an Israeli air raid targeting a group of Palestinian fighter who were clashing with the invading troops in Khan Younis town in the southern part of the Gaza Strip.

The Al Qassam Brigades identified the fighter as Bassam Ashour, 19.

The Brigades added that the army also shelled farmlands near the American school in northern Gaza, no injuries were reported.

During his Wednesday evening with the Us President, Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, said that his army will strike Gaza is the firing of homemade shells does not cease.

He added that “he hopes that Israel will not have not carry a large-scaled offensive using military means that has never been used before”.

Israeli occupation artillery strike kills two Hamas activists in Gaza City

Date: 15 / 05 / 2008 Time: 09:50
Gaza – Ma'an –

Two Palestinian activists, affiliated to Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades, were killed on Wednesday at midnight and three others were injured when Israeli occupation military tanks targeted a group of fighters in the Shuja'iya neighborhood of Gaza City.

Palestinian medical sources named those killed as Ahmad Al-Malahi and Muhammad Harara, both in their thirties. The wounded activists were evacuated to Ash-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and medics described their condition as serious. The dead bodies were also taken to the same hospital.

Israeli occupation artillery fired another shell at an open agricultural area near the American school in the northern Gaza Strip. No casualties have been reported.

Gazan man dies in Israeli hospital of wounds sustained in Israeli strike

Date: 15 / 05 / 2008 Time: 11:59
Gaza – Ma'an –

A 40-year-old Palestinian citizen died on Thursday in an Israeli hospital where he was being treated from serious wounds he sustained in Israeli strike on his house in Khuza'ah in the southern Gaza Strip on 4 May.

Muhammad Al-Najjar's brother, Husam Al-Najjar, was also killed immediately in the strike.

Al-Najjar's wife was also injured in the same strike as well as his nephew, 24-year-old Muhammad Sameer Al-Najjar, who sustained two gunshots to his head. Medics say he is clinically dead.

Israeli Occupation Army Kidnaps Palestinian from Qalqilia

Date: 15 / 05 / 2008 Time: 11:15
Nablus - Salfit - Ma'an -

The Israeli occupation army kidnapped a 20-year-old resident of the northern West Bank city of Qalqilia early on Thursday morning.

Ahmed Yousif Mohammad Samarah Ishreim's mother, Um Ibrahim, said the soldiers deliberately damaged the door of their house located near As-Sabe' Street, ransacking its contents and intimidating the sleeping children.

Ahmad has a brother who has been imprisoned in the al Naqab Israeli detention facility for several months and was expected to be released the same day as Ahmad was kidnapped.

Palestinian activist affiliated to Fatah Al-Intifada injured in clashes with Israeli occupation forces

Date: 15 / 05 / 2008 Time: 10:13
Gaza – Ma'an –

A Palestinian military group, Kamal Udwan forces affiliated to "Fatah Al- Intifada" said on Thursday that one of their activist has been injured in clashes with an undercover Israeli force south of Al-Buraij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

The group said in a statement that a group of their fighters was ambushed at 1 am by an undercover Israeli force. The group managed to flee the ambush after clashing with the Israeli occupation forces for more than three hours. They also fired three rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) at the Israeli troops.

Israeli occupation army kidnaps 19 Palestinians across West Bank

Date: 15 / 05 / 2008 Time: 10:03
Bethlehem -Ma'an -

The Israeli occupation army carried out several invasions early on Thursday morning in different cities of the West Bank, seizing 19 Palestinians.

Israeli sources confirmed that Israeli occupation forces kidnapped 19 Palestinians who are on Israel's 'wanted list' from the cities and villages of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, the central West Bank city of Ramallah and the southern West Bank cities of Bethlehem and Hebron.

The sources added that all of the abductees were transferred to Israeli interrogation centers.

Also on Thursday morning Israeli occupation soldiers kidnapped a Palestinian after breaking into his home in the Al-Daheya area east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. Palestinian security sources said that Israeli forces seized 40-year-old Ghanem Tawfiq Sawalmeh from the area of Daheya Al-Tahta.

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