Israeli occupation army leaves Khan Younis, 2 killed, 20 injured and 40 kidnapped

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Thursday May 08, 2008 08:21 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News

Israeli occupation tanks and troops left the Abasan town, east of Khan Younis, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip on Thursday at dawn leaving behind two killed Palestinians, 20 injured, and kidnapping at least 40 residents.

Wafa' Al-Daghmah, 35, a mother of seven children, was shot an killed by the Israeli army on Thursday at dawn as the army was polling out of Khan Younis, local sources said. Medics stated that Al-Daghmah was shot in the head and died instantly.

On Wednesday afternoon one Palestinian was killed and seven injured as the Israeli army attacked a group of residents in Khan Younis. Witnesses said that an Israeli unmanned airplane fired a missile at a group of residents killing Mohamed Abu Mussalam, 22, and injuring seven others, three critically.

Dr. Mu'awiya Hassanain, head of the Emergency Department at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, nineteen residents were wounded by Israeli military attacks in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. At least six residents were wounded in an Israeli air strike that targeted an area in Abassan town.

During the military operation Abassan town the Israeli army demolished 4 homes razed vast areas of Palestinian-owned farm lands in addition by Thursday at dawn when the army totally left, troops kidnapped 40 civilians and took them to unknown locations.

The assault began in the early dawn hours on Wednesday as the army invaded the area, broke into and searched dozens of homes. Soldiers also topped several home and used some of them as monitoring towers.

IOF troops kill Palestinian mother of seven children in Abassan

[ 08/05/2008 - 09:42 AM ]

KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)--

The IOF troops deliberately shot dead before midnight Wednesday a 35-year-old Palestinian mother of seven children called Wafa Daghma as they were withdrawing from the Abassan town in Khan Younis. Palestinian medical sources said she was shot in the head

The IOF troops had destroyed during the incursion five houses belonging to citizens from the families of Abu Tu'aima, Daghma and Qara in Abassan and killed a Palestinian fighter called Mahmoud Abu Muslim, 21, and wounded 20 others, seven of them were Qassam fighters during aerial and artillery attacks.

During the Israeli rampage in the town which started at dawn Wednesday, the IOF troops bulldozed vast tracts of agricultural lands and other property belonging to farmers. They kidnapped 40 Palestinian citizens and took them to the Palestinian lands occupied in 1948.

The IOF troops withdrew after they found fierce resistance by the Palestinian fighters spearheaded by the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, where a number of RPGs and mortar shells were fired at the invading troops during the confrontations.

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