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A sister of Palestinian Sobhe Zeno, killed by Israeli forces, cries as she looks at his body during his funeral
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GAZA
CITY, September 13 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - The Israeli
occupation army shot dead one Palestinian and wounded six others early
Friday, September 13, as its armor staged a fresh raid into the Gaza
Strip, while eight Israeli soldiers were wounded when an Israeli tank
and bulldozer accidentally collided.
Sobhi
Zeynou, 26, was killed when Israeli tanks fired shells in Rafah, at
the far southern end of the Strip, in the latest in a string of
incursions into the Palestinian territory in recent weeks, Agence
France-Presse (AFP) said.
The
six others were wounded, three of them seriously, by automatic weapons
fire, Palestinian medical sources.
A
column of 25 Israeli tanks entered the town before dawn, a Palestinian
security source said.
The
tanks were backed up by two assault helicopters, which fired machine
guns, and accompanied by two bulldozers which demolished at least one
house and a workshop.
The
Israeli army said it had arrested a dozen Palestinians, four of them
on its list of wanted Palestinian resistance fighters.
Troops
also destroyed six workshops the Israeli army again claimed were
allegedly used to manufacture makeshift weapons.
Meanwhile,
eight Israeli soldiers were wounded in a traffic accident during the
military offensive when an Israeli tank and bulldozer accidentally
collided.
Palestinian
resistance fighters responded with light weapons fire as well as a
bomb and a dozen grenades, but caused no casualties, the statement
said.
Earlier,
military sources said an explosive charge went off as an Israeli
convoy passed near the Netzarim settlement in the northern Gaza Strip,
while two makeshift rockets hit an Israeli village in the Negev
desert.
Neither
incident caused any casualties, Israeli military sources said.
On
Thursday, Israeli tanks raided the eastern fringes of Gaza City,
sparking clashes with Palestinian resistance, but again no casualties.
In
the Al-Shujaiyah neighborhood, the occupation army blew up the home of
Osama Hales, a member of the Islamic resistance group Hamas, witnesses
said. Six other houses were damaged in the explosion.
Four
tanks and an Israeli bulldozer also staged a brief incursion into the
Al-Mughazi refugee camp, south of the city, where they demolished two
houses, AFP said.
Meanwhile,
three Palestinians were killed and eight were wounded Friday when an
explosion rocked the Jabalya refugee camp in the Gaza Strip,
Palestinian security officials said.
The
source of the blast was a house belonging to an official of
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's mainstream Fatah movement, Iyad
Ash-Sharif, the officials said, adding that its cause was still
unclear.
The
dead were three brothers from the Ash-Sharif family identified as
Hani, a member of the Islamic Jihad movement, Abdelhamid and Mahmoud.
Iyad
was seriously wounded in the blast, while four other members of the
family, including three girls, were also hurt, AFP said.
