Shelling
Targets Civilians in Gaza, Injures Eight More
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| A Palestinian baby killed by Israeli tank
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Additional
Reporting By Mustafa Al-Sawaaf, IOL Gaza Correspondent
GAZA
CITY, August10 (IslamOnline & News Agencies)- Fresh attacks
erupted in the Gaza Strip, when Israeli tanks shelled houses in the
autonomous southern town of Khan Yunis early Saturday, August10, 2002,
injuring eight Palestinians, five of them belonging to the same family
and four are children, medical sources said.
Kamal
Abul-hassan, 38, a family man, as well as his three children were
injured in the Israeli attack on Khan Yunis.
In
an interview with IOL correspondent, Abul-hassan, treated in Nasser
hospital with his children, said, “It was about 1am Saturday when
the Israeli tanks shelled our houses. I embraced my children who were
in hysterical panic, as they wanted to leave the house, which is only
200 meters from the Israeli military position. When we were close to
the door, a missile hit our house injuring all of us.”
“I
thank Allah as I feel that being alive is miraculous. We were injured
but we still have the future,” Abul-hassan added.
In
another area in Khan Yunis, a mother and her daughter were wounded
while sleeping. Rehab Sahloul, 28, was sleeping beside her daughter
Yousra, 4, when they were hit by a tank shell.
“when
I was sleeping I felt that a ball of fire hit my back with extreme
pain then I heard my child screaming as blood was coming out of her
face and the crying of my baby child as well,” Abu-sahloul told IOL.
“I
was terrified as I thought that my child was murdered so I carried her
without thinking of my injuries to the hospital where we were treated
as I knew that she was only injured,” Abu-sahloul added.
“We
thank Allah in all cases. We left our house because it was close to
the Israeli settlement because one of our children was injured there
but they hit us here also,” she added.
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Three
more Palestinian civilians died in the Gaza Strip overnight, Iman Abu
Maghasib, 13 who died Saturday morning in Gaza City of bullet wounds
in the head inflicted by Israeli troops on August 7 near the central
town of Deir al-Balah, the sources said.
Khader
al-Saidi, 67, who had been critically injured during an Israeli F-16
air strike, died Friday night in Al-Shifa hospital, bringing to 16 the
death toll for the controversial July 23 raid which targeted a Hamas
senior leader.
On
Friday night, 23-year-old Hassan Ali al-Assi, who was wounded early
Thursday when about 25 Israeli tanks and armored cars stormed the town
of Beit Lahia, north of Gaza City, died of his wounds in the same
hospital, the sources said.
Israel
invaded the West Bank afresh on June 19 and has since reoccupied seven
out of eight major towns, murdering more and more Palestinian civilian
victims.
Meanwhile,
resistance Islamic group Hamas announced that Mohammad Baker al-Masri,
a 25-year-old member of the group martyred when the Israeli soldiers
shot him on the border between the Nir Am kibbutz and the Palestinian
town of Beit Hanun, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
Hamas
said that the martyr was trying to cross the green line when they
shoot him, adding that he was going to carry out a resistance
operation.
On
the other hand, the Israeli forces is still keeping the body of
Al-Masri as it refused to give it to the Palestinians.
Another
Palestinian, who was driving through the West Bank town of Nablus,
died Saturday after an Israeli tank opened fire on his car,
Palestinian security sources said.
Nablus resident Ahmad Qreni, 54, was driving through the town's centre
when the tank opened fire. He was hit in the head by bullets, dying
shortly afterwards at the town's hospital, AFP reported.
The
latest deaths raise the toll from 22 months of Palestinian uprising,
or Intifada, to 2,433 -- 1,792 Palestinians and 598 Israelis, with the
remainder of other nationalities .
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