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Raiding Israeli Forces Kill Gaza Boy, playing soccer |
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by Friendly
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01 Jul 2004
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RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Israeli forces shot dead a 9-year-old Palestinian boy playing soccer in a Gaza refugee camp on Thursday as tanks rolled in to search for tunnels used by militants, witnesses said. |
"We were playing soccer when Israeli tanks ... started firing inside the camp and toward us," said Bashir Abu Jlidan, 18, a resident of Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip.
He said Omar Zara'an, 9, fell to the ground bleeding. Doctors at Rafah hospital pronounced the boy dead after trying to revive him.
The Israeli army had no immediate comment on his death. It said Israeli forces were on a mission in Rafah, which borders Egypt, to destroy tunnels militants use to smuggle in weapons or place explosives underneath army positions.
In northern Gaza, witnesses said Israeli helicopters fired two missiles into the Beit Hanoun area raided by armored forces on Tuesday a day after militants active there launched rockets into a nearby Israeli town, killing two people.
Witnesses said the missiles injured 11 people, one critically, when they crashed close to where militants were planting bombs. The army said it was checking the reports.
Israeli military bulldozers were razing olive groves and orchards in Beit Hanoun to deprive rocket squads of cover. An Israeli military source said on Wednesday troops could remain there for months to stop militants launching rockets.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon plans to pull settlers and soldiers out of Gaza by the end of 2005 and vows "extensive action" before and after that to thwart further rocket strikes.
Israel's army besieged Rafah for six days in May, killing 42 Palestinians and leaving hundreds homeless after militants killed 13 soldiers in a string of ambushes. |
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Re: Raiding Israeli Forces Kill Gaza Boy, playing soccer |
by NRA4Freedom
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01 Jul 2004
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I am all for ending the battle between Israel and its neighbors. Please outline your plan of action to bring "peace" to the middle east. Can you do that possibly? No question about it, innocent people dying is seriously sad at any time, and it often happens in times of war. Israel is at "war" for its very existance, and an awful lot of innocent people in Israel get killed all the time by Muslim terrorists. I don't recall reading an article by you talking about how terrible it was the last time a bus of innocent people was blown up in Isreal...maybe I missed it? It makes one wonder if you feel as terrible about their deaths as you try to make out like you do about this? |
