Palestinians search through the debris of a blown up house destroyed by Israeli troops in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza strip.

GAZA CITY, December 6 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Israeli occupation troops killed ten Palestinians early Friday, December 6, during an incursion into the Bureij refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian hospital source said.

The Palestinians died when around 40 Israeli tanks entered the camp firing shells and spraying bullets from machine guns, before withdrawing, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.

Electricity was cut off in Bureij, said Israeli public radio.

Ahmad Rabah, director of the hospital in nearby Deir el-Balah camp, said four of the victims whom he named as members of the Mansour family were killed when an Israeli tank shell hit their home.

Three Palestinians were killed by a missile fired by an Israeli helicopter gunship, witnesses said.

Rabah said six of the victims, including members of the Mansour clan, had been identified as Mohammed al-Awani, 26, and his brother Eymad, 28, Rayed Ramadan, 35, and his brother Tareq, 28, Ossama Tahrawi, 31, and his brother Imad.

Ahlam al-Wawi, 30, sustained life-threatening injuries inside her house when an Israeli helicopter gunship fired a missile on the adjacent street. She later died in hospital, the sources said.

At least 20 other Palestinians were wounded during the Israeli incursion, three of them seriously, Rabah said.

The deaths brought the number killed since the start of the Palestinian Intifada against the Israeli occupation on September 28, 2000 to 2,752 including 2,023 Palestinians and 678 Israelis.

The Israelis blew up the home in the Bureij camp of Ayman Sheshnya, an activist of the People's Defense Committees of  Fatah, witnesses said.

Troops also questioned people in the home of Islamic Jihad activist Jamal Ismail and damaged the house, along with a dozen others, the witnesses said.

Questioned by AFP, the Israeli army said it was unable to comment on the reports for the time being.

Meanwhile, a senior official in the Palestinian Authority condemned the Israeli-perpetrated "massacre".

"This is a new massacre and crime against our unarmed people," Nabil Abu Rudeina, a senior aide to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, told AFP.

Abu Rudeina called on the international community, especially the Quartet Committee, to intervene.

They should "act urgently to secure a stop to the crimes and horrors committed by Israel and assure the protection of the Palestinian people."

While Muslims across the globe were celebrating their holy Eid-ul-Fitr, which marks the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, Palestinians are still suffering under the yoke of the Israeli barbaric and bloody occupation.

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