Israeli Forces Storm Gaza Village, 3 Palestinians Injured
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A Palestinian boy surrounded by the rubble of his house in Gaza City destroyed by Israelis tanks |
GAZA
CITY, July 26 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – In a sustained
policy of aggression, Israeli occupation forces raided a Palestinian
village in Gaza Friday, July 26, a few days after an Israeli F-16
dropped a one-ton bomb on a building in a densely populated Gaza area,
killing 18, including 11 children.
Three
Palestinians
were wounded as Israeli tanks and bulldozers stormed into a
Palestinian village in the central Gaza Strip and fired on buildings
early Friday, medical and security sources said.
Sources
at the Al-Shifa hospital said Raed Dhoun, 25, who sustained injuries
to his face, and Ahmad al-Kabariti, 22, who was injured in the chest,
were both in serious condition. A third Palestinian citizen was hit in
the leg.
Seven
tanks and three bulldozers moved nearly one kilometer (half a mile)
into Palestinian-controlled territory around Al-Zeitun village near
the illegal Israeli settlement of Netzarim and began firing tank
shells and heavy machine-guns, witnesses and security sources told
Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The
Israeli army confirmed the incursion in a statement.
A
fierce gunbattle broke out between invading Israeli forces and
Palestinian resistance fighters, which ended when two Israeli
helicopters flew over the area, AFP reported.
Witnesses
said seven loud explosions rocked the town, at least one of which
destroyed a metal workshop.
During
the incursion, Israeli occupation forces destroyed a Palestinian
security position and two other buildings, including a domestic gas
delivery depot and a house, and another 10 houses were heavily damaged
in the raid, AFP reported witnesses as saying.
The
Israeli army claimed that several Qassam rockets had been fired at
Israeli targets in recent days, one of which it said allegedly landed
Thursday, July 25, in a kibbutz inside Israel, five kilometers (three
miles) from the Gaza Strip.
"The
rocket landed inside kibbutz Sa'ad, some 15 meters (yards) from a
house but no one was injured," an army spokeswoman told AFP.
No
news reported confirmed the Israeli claim.
The
spokeswoman said the alleged rocket was a Qassam 1 rocket, which has a
range of up to five kilometers rather than the more sophisticated and
longer-range Qassam 2 version, which has twice the range.
Qassam
rockets are considered to be the trademark of the Islamic resistance
group Hamas.
The
spokeswoman said Palestinian fighetrs had also opened fire on two army
posts Thursday evening, one near Neve Dkalim outside Khan Yunis, and
one near the southern town of Rafah on the Israeli-Egyptian border.
The
Palestinian territories are in a state of fury after a U.S.-built
Israeli F-16 warplane bombed a building in densely-populated Gaza City
on Monday, July 22, killing the military chief of Hamas along with 17
innocent civilians, including. 
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