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Ahmed Nemer, left, Hamas leader, prepares the body of martyr Abdul Fatah Said Abdu, 27, at Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis
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GAZA
CITY, September 17 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – Israeli forces
shot dead an Egyptian man Monday, September 16, near a military
roadblock in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical and security
sources said.
Abdul
Fatah Said Abdu, 27, a volunteer for the two-year-old Palestinian
Intifada (Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation), was killed
between Deir al-Balah and Khan Yunis, security sources said, according
to Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Abdu
was initially identified as a Palestinian due to the identity card found
on his body, but was later discovered to be an Egyptian national using
the identity card of a Palestinian man unconnected to the affair,
Palestinian medical sources and witnesses said.
Abdu
entered the Gaza Strip from Egypt in December 2000, some three months
after the start of the Intifada, in a bid to fight alongside the
Palestinians, witnesses said.
He
had been living secretly in the southern border town of Rafah, hiding in
local residents' homes and using the false identity card, they said.
His
death brings to 2,496 the number of people killed since the start of the
Intifada, including 1,842 Palestinians and 604 Israelis, the remainder
being foreign nationals.
Earlier
this year, a flurry of Egyptians tried to cross into the Gaza Strip to
join the Intifada and fight
with the Palestinian resistance forces against the Israeli occupation.
On
April 16, Israeli soldiers shot dead Milad Mohammed Hemeida, 21, as he
tried to infiltrate across the Rafah border post into Gaza.
Israel
occupies and controls the border posts of the Palestinian self-rule
areas under 1994 autonomy accords.
