Palestinian Killed, Son, Wife, Nephew Injured by Israeli Occupation Terrorist Soldiers in Khuza'a

One killed, six injured by Israeli occupation forces near Khan Younis
Date: 04 / 05 / 2008 Time: 09:40

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An unarmed 41-year-old Palestinian man was killed and his wife and brother were injured when an Israeli tank shell struck their house in the town of Khuza'a, near the city of Khan Younis, in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, witnesses said.

The Israeli occupation forces withdrew at 10am local time after an eight-hour incursion.

Eyewitnesses said that Husam Al-Najjar was killed when shrapnel from the shell penetrated his stomach.

Najjar's nephew, 24-year-old Muhammad Samir Al-Najjar, was critically injured earlier on Sunday by Israeli forces who opened fire at the family house in Khuza'a. Palestinian medical sources said Muhammad was shot twice in the head and doctors were operating on him in an attempt to save his life.

Eyewitnesses also said that invading Israeli bulldozers destroyed large swaths of agricultural land.

Earlier, three Palestinian fighters were wounded when an Israeli plane fired on a group of activists attempting to block the Israeli incursion in Khuza'a.

Witnesses said that and Israeli reconnaissance plane fired at least two missiles at a group of Palestinian fighters affiliated to Hamas.

The military wing of the Islamic Jihad, the Al-Quds Brigades, said that their fighters fired two mortar shells at the invading Israeli forces and exchanged fire with them.

Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades said their fighters launched 10 mortar shells at the Israeli forces. They also said that they detonated a landmine before fighting with the Israeli soldiers.

For its part, the National Resistance Brigades, the military wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, claimed responsibility for firing three mortar shells at Israeli military base at Abu Mutaibiq, east of Al-Maghazi refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip.

An Israel army tank shells a house in southern Gaza, kills a civilian man

Sunday May 04, 2008 12:09 by Rami Almeghari - IMEMC & Agencies

An Israeli occupation army tank shelled on Sunday morning a Palestinian-owned house in the southern Gaza Strip town of Kheza'a, killing a civilian man and wounding two other inhabitants.

Palestinian medical sources said that Hussam aL-Najjar, 42 year-old-man, was killed and at least two other Palestinians were wounded, with tank shells shrapnel.

Witnesses said that an Israeli tank shell landed on a house , just close to the Israel-Gaza border line in the southern Gaza Strip town of Kheza'a and that the Israeli fire caused the death of Najjar and the injury of another inhabitant of the house.

Conflicting reports said that four other Palestinians were wounded in the Israeli attack on Kheza'a, including three fighters of the ruling Hamas party in Gaza, after they had clashed with the invading forces.

The Israeli incursion into this Palestinian town came under the cover of warplanes as the army bulldozers razed vast areas of arable lands , near the border fence with Israel.

Last week, an Israeli occupation tank shell landed on a house in northern Gaza Strip, killing a woman and her four children. Then, the Israeli army said it would conduct investigations into such civilian deaths.

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