Israeli Army Kills A Palestinian, Injures Two Boys
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A woman cries during the funeral of a Palestinian killed earlier by the Israeli army |
GAZA
CITY, Aug 11 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – Israel’s army
Sunday, August 11, killed a Palestinian, injured two boys and
demolished more homes as their policies of incursions, abductions and
demolishing home continued.
Israeli
forces in the Gaza Strip killed Bassim Najji, a member of the Islamic
resistance group Hamas from Jabaliya refugee camp who had opened fire
on a group of Israelis in an apparent bid to lure Israeli tanks into
an ambush, an army spokesman said.
According
to Agence France-Presse (AFP), Israeli soldiers in the Dugit
settlement in the northern Gaza Strip scrambled after a Palestinian
activist opened fire on a group of land surveyors working on the edge
of the settlement. One Israeli man was slightly injured in the attack.
While
tracking down the activist, they came across a large Armour-piercing
explosive charge similar to those which destroyed two Israeli tanks
after they pursued Palestinian resistance fighters in separate
incidents earlier this year.
The
troops later located the activists in a nearby house where one
Palestinian was shot dead in an exchange of fire, the Israeli army
spokesman said.
Meanwhile,
in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said two small boys
were injured when an Israeli tank fired a shell from the Gush Katif
settlement bloc at a house in the neighboring Palestinian town of Khan
Yunis.
One
six-year-old had the fingers of his right hand blown off, while
another boy aged seven was injured by shrapnel which hit his body,
hospital sources said.
Israeli
tanks staged a brief incursion earlier Sunday into Khan Yunis, with
troops capturing a number of residents, while Israeli forces also
bulldozed Palestinian farmland in Deir al-Balah, just to the north.
Witnesses
said that a Palestinian house was later destroyed in the area.
On
the other hand, two Israeli soldiers were wounded during a gunfight
with Palestinians in the northern West Bank town of Jenin, said both
Palestinian security sources and the Israeli army.
Palestinian
security sources said the soldiers were wounded in clashes between
armed Palestinians and Israeli troops which broke out after a number
of tanks rumbled into the town.
The
tanks pulled out shortly afterwards, they said.
The
army said the two soldiers were moderately wounded after Palestinian
activists opened fire on them as they searched the town. They were
evacuated for medical treatment, the spokesman said.
Jewish
settler sources said one of the injured was moderately to seriously
wounded, while the other was lightly wounded by shrapnel.
Jenin
has been reoccupied by Israel since mid-June, along with six other
West Bank towns, after back-to-back suicide bombings in Jerusalem.
Sunday’s
violence brought the overall toll since the start of the Palestinian
Intifada 22 months ago, to 2,438 - 1,796 Palestinians and 600
Israelis, with the balance made up of other nationalities.
Earlier
Sunday, around 100 Jewish settlers took over two Palestinian houses in
a village close to a settlement, Palestinian witnesses said.
The
settlers, some of them armed, forced out the families in the two
houses on the edge of Luban al-Sharqiyah, which lies just west of Eli
settlement, where a Jewish couple were shot dead by Palestinian
resistance activists last week, AFP reported.
The
attack was claimed by the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed wing of
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement.
The
Brigades claimed responsibility for the resistance operation which
took place in the Mekhora settlement, some 15 kilometers (nine miles0
southeast of the West Bank town of Nablus, where a Jewish woman
settler was gunned down and her husband injured.
The
killing came just hours after an Israeli tank opened fire on a
Palestinian municipality worker in Nablus who was driving through the
re-occupied city with a permit allowing him to carrying on working
despite the Israeli curfew.
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