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Israeli
Raid On Gaza Kills 7, Including Hams Cadre
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One
of the victims
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GAZA
CITY, June 12 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - At least seven
Palestinians were killed, including a Hamas cadre, his wife and
one-year-old daughter, when several Israeli helicopter gunships fired
late Thursday, June 12, missiles at a car in northern Gaza City.
Yasser
Taha was targeted in the assassination strike, which targeted the
densely populated Sheikh Radwan district here, Aljazeera reported.
Up
to 50 other people were wounded in the attack, which was directed at
Taha's car traveling in the city's northern Sheikh Radwan area.
Four
helicopter gunships fired a total of six missiles at the car, with a
seventh fired as bystanders rushed to help the injured, Agence
France-Presse (AFP) reported.
Al-Jazeera
correspondent said every Palestinian city and village is now targeted
as Israel has announced earlier in the day an
all-out war on Hamas.
One
of the missiles ripped into a nearby house, shattering the roof and
setting it on fire, an AFP correspondent reported from the scene.
A
survivor of the blast, Ayman Maadi, 18, said almost his entire family
had been hurt by the missile which blasted his house.
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Medics
do their best to save the victims
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"My
friend Hani and I were sitting in one of the rooms. When we heard the
first missile, we ran for shelter at the back of the courtyard. Then
another missile hit the house. Our relatives were inside but we
couldn't get close because of the fire," he told AFP.
A
crowd of angry Palestinians gathered around the smoldering wreckage of
Taha's car shortly after the attack which scattered debris over a wide
area. A blood-stained sandal floated in water gushing from damaged
water pipes.
Back
at the Shifa hospital, which has been receiving a constant flow of
dead and wounded since Tuesday, ambulance driver Abu Mohammad
recounted his latest rescue outing.
"When
I arrived on the scene, there were still people trying to take the
charred bodies out of the car. I took a plastic bag and started
collecting body parts.
"Then
I drove three people to the hospital without even knowing whether they
were dead or alive," he said.
Propped
against the wall at the entrance of the morgue, his colleague Ahmad
looked more affected and was trying to collect himself.
"I
can't believe what I'm seeing, all these crimes, all this pain, how
long can we continue like this?" he muttered, shaking his head
and gazing vacantly amid the agitation and cries of the packed
hospital.
'Gone
Crazy'
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Critically
injured
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Hamas,
for its part, hit out at the Israeli heinous crime, asserting that it
would never break the stanch will of the Palestinian resistance.
"The
Israeli government has gone mad…The Israeli crimes are unprecedented
e in man's history," Mahmmoud al-Zahhar told Aljazeera.
"Hamas
got accustomed to the Israeli crimes," he said, threatening that
the movement would carry out more bombings operations against the
Israelis "in retaliation for the incessant crimes of the Zionist
entity."
Palestinian
Information Minister Nabil Amr, for his part, said the Israeli
escalation is aimed at derailing the peace process.
"Israel
has declared war (on the Palestinians), which put the peace process on
the line," Amr told Aljazeera.
"The
Palestinian authority was about to hammer out a deal with Palestinian
factions, but the latest Israeli escalation torpedoed all peace
efforts," he added.
On
Wednesday, June 11, two Hamas members were
killed in an Israeli air raid on Gaza overnight.
A
number of Israeli helicopter gunships flew at low altitude over Gaza,
firing rockets on the vehicle carrying Rami Abu Kumeil and Mohamed
Daghmash of the Ezzudine al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' armed branch, in
Gaza's Zeitoun district, Palestinian sources told IslamOnline.net.
The
attack came two days after Israeli helicopters fired several rockets
on a car carrying key Hamas figure Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi, leaving
him injured and two others dead.
The
latest violence brings the overall number of people killed in the
32-month-old Intifada to 3,336, three-quarters of them Palestinians,
according to an AFP count.
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