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| Israel: 17 Persons Murdered in October Islamic Attacks |
| 2004-11-01 |
| (IsraelNN.com) Seventeen persons were killed by Arab terror in the month of October 2004. Others were wounded, including persons who sustained permanent disabilities. October 4 — 22:00 — A border policeman, a member of an elite undercover unit was killed while working to apprehend a senior terrorist in Ramallah. The soldier was shot in his head and pronounced dead by trauma physicians in Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital. An investigation revealed he was killed by mistaken fire from another member of his unit. [1] 1) Staff-Sergeant Ronen Ben-Meiri, 31, from Haifa October 6 — Morning — Three terrorists attack the greenhouse area of Kfar Darom in southern Gaza. One Thai worker, wounded by gunfire, was taken hostage. He bled to death during the hours of the standoff between terrorists and soldiers. [2] 1) Pratheep Nanongkham, 24, from the Maha Sarakham province in Thailand October 6 — 21:50 - A blast ripped through the Hilton Hotel in the Egyptian resort town of Taba, near the border with Israel. The powerful blast was caused by car bombs exploded at the entrance to the hotel, containing an estimated 250-300 kg of explosives, causing the collapse of part of the hotel. At about 23:30, two additional explosions occurred in the camping area of of Ras a-Sutan, located about 45 kilometers south. Unless indicated, victims were killed in the Taba Hilton attack. [14] 1) Einat Na'or, 27, from Kibbutz Zikim 2) Ro'i Avisaff, 28, from Kfar Saba (killed in Ras a-Sutan attack) 3) Hafez Hafi, 39, from Lod 4) Khalil Zeitouna, 10, from Jaffa 5) Michal Alexander, 27, from Ganei Tikvah (killed in Ras a-Sutan attack) 6) Tzila Niv, 43 (mother), from Rakefet 7) Gilad Niv, 11, (son) 8) Lior Niv, 3, (son/brother) 9) Assaf Greenwald, 27, from Ramat Gan. 10) Oleg Pazakov, 32, from Bat Yam (husband) 11) Ludmilla Pazakov, 30, from Bat Yam (wife) 12) Rotem Moriah, 27, from Tel Aviv ** Valery Segal, 49, from Ashdod (not included in the count. He died in hospital of a heart attack about thirty minutes before the attack. October 19 — 15:30 — An IDF soldier in the Menashe Battalion Command in the northern Shomron was gravely wounded by terrorist sniper fire. He died a short time later in Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer in Tel Aviv. (al-Aqsa Brigade/FATAH) [15] 1) IDF Staff-Sergeant Yair Turgeman, 22, from Kiryat Arba October 21 — 14:10 — A bomb placed in a weapons tunnel under an IDF position in the Rafiah area of southern Gaza along the Philadelphi Route was detonated by terrorists, claiming the life of one IDF soldier. (HAMAS) [16] 1) Sergeant-Major Moshe Elmaleh, 34, from Dimona October 28 — 14:10 — An IDF position in southern Gaza near Morag was targeted in a mortar shell attack. Seven IDF soldiers were wounded, one critically, two seriously, one moderate, and the remainder light. The critically wounded soldier died a short time later in Soroka Medical Center. [17] 1) Sergeant Michael Chizik, 21, from Tiberias |
| Posted by:Mark Espinola |