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4 Palestinian Resistance Fighters, Assassinated in Two Israeli Missile Attacks on Gaza

March 9, 2012

Israeli aircraft used to assassinate two leaders of the PRC

[ 09/03/2012 - 08:00 PM ]
GAZA, (PIC)--

Israeli aircraft on Friday evening assassinated Zuhair al-Qaisi, secretary general of the Popular Resistance Committees and one of its field leaders, Mahmoud Hanani, who is a liberated captive from Nablus.

PIC correspondent said that Israeli occupation aircraft fired a rocket at a car travelling in Tal-al-Islam in the city of Gaza resulting in the death of the two leaders and critically wounding a third person.

Spokesman for the emergency services in the Gaza Strip said that two Palestinians were killed and a third was wounded in an Israeli occupation airstrike targeting a car in Tel-al-Islam in Gaza City.

The Gaza government for its part held the Israeli occupation fully responsible for the repercussions of its crime.

Spokesman for the government Taher al-Nunu, said in a statement to PIC: "This is a serious crime. The Palestinian government strongly condemns it and holds the Zionist occupation fully responsible for the repercussions of this heinous crime."

He stressed that the assassination of the secretary general of the PRC at this time when Gaza is witnessing a period of calm is an attempt by the occupation to stir things up to cause instability.

He also said that the assassination of a liberated captive who has been deported to the Gaza Strip shows the immorality of the occupation which, in the West Bank, also started re-arresting liberated captives who were freed in the Shalit exchange deal.

The Israeli occupation admitted committing the crime, the Hebrew radio quoted military sources as saying that the assassination of Qaisi and Hanani was to prevent a serious attack the two were planning at the Egyptian borders with the 1948 occupied Palestine.

Two Quds Brigades fighters killed in an occupation airstrike

[ 09/03/2012 - 08:43 PM ]
GAZA, (PIC)--

Two Quds Brigades fighters were killed Friday evening in another Israeli occupation airstrike targeting a group of Palestinians in to the east of Shuja'iyyah neighbourhood in Gaza City. This airstrike took place only hours after an earlier attack targeted two leaders of the Popular Resistance Committees.

Local sources said that Israeli occupation aircraft fired a number of rockets at a group of Palestinians to the east of Gaza City resulting in the death of two Palestinians, adding that ambulances rushed to the scene and recovered the bodies of the two victims of the attack.

Spokesman for the emergency committee, Adham Abu Selmeyya, said that ambulance crews recovered two bodies, one of them with a severed head, at the scene of the airstrike where Israeli occupation aircraft fired three rockets.

Local sources told PIC correspondent that the two martyrs are: Muhammad Harara and Obeid Gharabli, both of them fighters affiliated with the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad.

The Quds Brigades mourned the two fighters and said in a statement on Friday evening that

Obeid Gharabli (23 years) and Muhammad Harara (22 years), both residents of the Shuja'iyyah neighbourhood were killed in a Zionist airstrike to the east of Gaza City that targeted them.
The Quds Brigades further said that the blood of the martyrs will not be in vain, but it will be the curse that chases the occupier.

Israeli occupation aircraft also fired at least one rocket at a group of Palestinians to the east of Zaytoun suburb near the car market, wounding four of them. They were taken to Shifa hospital.

Palestinian gov't holds Israel fully responsible for its Friday attacks

[ 10/03/2012 - 07:30 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

The Palestinian government in the besieged Gaza Strip held the Israeli occupation regime fully responsible for the consequences of its aerial attacks on the Strip which claimed the lives of 11 Palestinians on Friday including the secretary-general of the resistance committees Zuhair Al-Qaisi.

"This is a serious crime and the Palestinian government strongly condemns it and holds the Zionist occupation fully responsible for this heinous atrocity," spokesman for the government Taher Al-Nunu told the Palestinian information center (PIC).

Spokesman Nunu added that Israel's assassination of Qaisi and its crimes yesterday signaled its plan to blow up the situation in Gaza once again.

The spokesman noted that Mahmoud Hanani, who was deported to Gaza after his release in the West Bank a few years ago, was also assassinated during the airstrikes on Friday.

For its part, the Palestinian ministry of foreign affairs strongly denounced the criminal attacks and demanded the Arab foreign ministers to table the Israeli military escalation against Gaza on agenda of their meeting on Saturday.

The Palestinian ministry urged in a press release the Arab foreign ministers to file a complaint against the Israeli occupation with the UN Security Council for its crimes against the Palestinians and take action to end the blockade imposed on Gaza.