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Israel
Kills 11 Palestinians, Wounds 100 In Gaza Raid
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Israeli occupation forces killed 11 people, wounds 100 in the camp
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OCCUPIED
JERUSALEM, March 6 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Eleven
Palestinians were killed and more than 100 others wounded early
Thursday, March 6, during a five-hour-long Israeli raid on Jabaliya
refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian medical sources
said.
Eight
died when the tanks fired fragmentation shells that exploded in the
middle of a crowd at the entrance to the town of Jabaliya and four
others breathed their last during the night.
Four
of the wounded, 30 of whom were in serious condition, were Palestinian
journalists working for Reuters news agency, Agence France-Presse
(AFP) reported.
The
raid on the most densely populated camp in the Palestinian territories
came hours after the latest resistance attack on a bus in the town of
Haifa that killed 15 people.
Islamic
Resistance Movement Hamas and Islamic Jihad said the bombing comes in
revenge for Palestinians killed by Israeli gunfire during the last
two days, including an 85-year-old man and a nine-month pregnant
women.
Some
40 Israeli tanks and armored vehicles advanced into northern Gaza
shortly after midnight, backed by helicopters which fired three
rockets at targets in the Jabaliya area, security sources said. They
encountered fierce resistance from Palestinian fighters during the
raid.
The
occupation army cut off electricity in the north of the Gaza Strip,
including Beit Lahia, Jabaliya and Beit Hanoun, they said, adding that
at least three houses were dynamited by them during the incursion.
Israeli
military sources confirmed troops were pulling out of the area early
Thursday, but would give no further details.
The
army has undertaken several similar raids into Gaza over the last
weeks, including one into a southern Gaza refugee camp early Monday
which left eight Palestinians dead, including a pregnant woman and a
teenager, and drew heavy international criticism over the high number
of civilian casualties.
More
Palestinian Casualty
Israeli
occupation forces also shot dead a Palestinian resistance fighter from
the Jihad movement on Thursday.
The
24-year-old man was killed in a shootout with the occupation forces in
the West Bank town of Bethlehem which carried out a search operation
in the Wadi Mali district of the city, Palestinian security
sources said.
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