Palestinian Killed, 7 Injured in Israeli Air Strike and Shelling of Civilians, North of Gaza Strip

Palestinian youth killed, six wounded in IOF raid

[ 21/07/2010 - 05:24 PM ]

BEIT HANUN, (PIC)--

A Palestinian young man was killed and six others were wounded when Israeli occupation forces warplanes and artillery fire targeted Beit Hanun town in northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday.

Dr. Mu'awiya Hassanain, director of ambulance and emergency in the health ministry, told the PIC that Muhammed Kafarna, in his twenties, was killed in the shelling.

He noted that three of the wounded were in serious conditions following the Israeli occupation forces' artillery shelling east of Beit Hanoun that was coupled with the firing of one missile by an IOF warplane.

Hassanain said that medical teams were combing the area in search of more casualties.

Local sources said that women and children were among the wounded in the shelling that targeted a group of citizens.

Israeli shelling kills 1 in north Gaza

Published today (updated) 21/07/2010 19:07

Gaza – Ma'an –

A Palestinian man was killed and seven others were injured by Israeli tank shelling that allegedly targeted armed Palestinian operatives in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday afternoon.

Medics at Beit Hanoun Government Hospital identified the slain man as Mohammad Al-Kafarna, 22. Seven others sustained serious wounds and one was listed in critical condition, hospital officials said. They were not immediately identified.

An Israeli soldier was also shot, the armed wing of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine said. The National Resistance Brigades said its forces targeted an Israeli patrol that crossed into Palestinian territory along the 300-meter no-go zone east of Beit Hanoun. A sniper "fired directly at an Israeli soldier who was inside Gaza, near Beit Hanoun, at 2:50 p.m. Wednesday evening," the armed group said in a statement.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said the army had no immediate comment on the DFLP wing's claims.

Eyewitnesses in the area told Ma'an that Israeli occupation forces fired several artillery shells injuring several people. At least a few of the injured Palestinians were civilians, onlookers said.

Jihad: IOF crime serious escalation

[ 21/07/2010 - 06:56 PM ]

GAZA, (PIC)--

Islamic Jihad movement described the Israeli occupation forces' (IOFs) escalation that killed a Palestinian citizen and wounded six others in northern Gaza Strip as a crime.

Shaikh Khadr Habib, an Islamic Jihad leader, told the PIC on Wednesday that the "serious act of targeting civilians" affirms that the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) was not interested in peace with the Palestinians.

He said that the crime necessitated a suitable response, which, he said, all armed wings should agree to.

The IOA does not want negotiations that lead to peace but rather want negotiations to cover for its crimes and to deceive the world into believing that it was interested in peace.

For its part, the Hamas movement said that all resistance factions should be on the alert to repel any more IOF crimes against the Palestinian people.

Hammad Al-Ruqoub, a Hamas spokesman in Khan Younis, told the PIC that the new aggression was probably meant to drag resistance into a new confrontation.

The IOF soldiers never stopped crimes against Palestinian citizens in Gaza especially in border areas, he said, regretting that the Fatah-controlled authority in the West Bank was insisting on having negotiations with the IOA despite those crimes.

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