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| Middle East |
| IDF sweeps Gaza town... |
| 2002-08-08 |
| In Gaza, Israeli tanks and armored vehicles rumbled deeper into Beit Lahia for a second night in a row, firing machine guns and at least one shell to knock out the electric transformer. Troops were going house-to-house, conducting searches, said Beit Lahiya mayor Mohammed al-Masri. There were no reports of injuries; an incursion of more than two hours in the same area early Wednesday left one Palestinian policemen dead. Hundreds of children and teenagers threw stones at four Israeli tanks blocking the main road. Soldiers fired from a tank-mounted machine gun to drive back the crowd, killing a 17-year-old boy with a shot to the head and wounding four youngsters. "Mahmoud, the tanks are coming!" "Well, send the kiddies out to throw things. Maybe one of them will get killed." "Good idea." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |