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| Eleven killed and dozens injured in bloody day in Gaza, explosion destroys house in Beit Lahiya |
| 2008-06-13 |
| Ma'an – The number of Palestinians killed in the explosion on Thursday at a Beit Lahiya home in the northern Gaza Strip increased to seven, after three members of the Hamas-affiliated Al-Qassam Brigades died from their injuries. The announcement of the deaths of Al-Qassam fighters Muhammed Hamdan Maqdad, Muhammed Sabri Abu Naja, and Ahmad Munir Subeih in the explosion brought the death toll on Thursday in Gaza to 11, with dozens injured. Medical sources had earlier announced that the body of Al-Qassam fighter Ashraf Naim Mashtahi was also retrieved from the rubble of the two-storey Hamoudeh family home in Beit Lahiya, which was destroyed by a massive explosion on Thursday afternoon. More than 40 people were reported wounded in the explosion, at least six of them seriously. Four-month-old Nour Majdi Hamoudeh, 22-year-old Mahmoud 'Ataya Hamoudeh, and 27-year-old Omar Abdel Ra'ouf Abu Shaqfeh were also killed in the explosion. Earlier on Thursday afternoon, Dr Mo'awiya Hassanein, Head of Ambulance and Emergency Services in the Ministry of Health, said that at least three corpses and 35 injured citizens arrived at Gazan hospitals after an explosion destroyed the Hamoudeh family home in Beit Lahiya. He said he expected the number of casualties to increase because of the serious nature of the injuries. Eyewitnesses reported that the house was completely destroyed over its residents, and that emergency services evacuated the dead and wounded from the rubble. Contradictory reports were received regarding the explosion at the house owned by Khaled Hamoudeh. Hamas affirmed that the explosion was caused by Israeli F-16 aircraft bombing the house of an Al-Qassam Brigades leader. However, the Israeli military denied bombing the house. Hamas and the de facto Palestinian government in Gaza accused Israel of responsibility for the "massacre" and called on the international community to "assume its responsibilities and move urgently to protect the Palestinian people under occupation and the Israeli killing machine." In a separate incident, a Palestinian was killed and two others were injured in an Israeli air strike on the Khuza'a area, east of Khan Younis, on Thursday afternoon. Earlier on Thursday morning, three Palestinian resistance fighters were killed by Israeli fire on Thursday in two separate operations in the northern Gaza Strip. Two members of the Al-Aqsa Brigades and the National Resistance Brigades, the military wings of the Fatah and DFLP movements respectively, were killed in a joint operation on Thursday morning after infiltrating inside the Green Line near the evacuated settlement of Dugit, north of Beit Lahiya, and clashing with Israeli forces in the area. Armed with a machine gun and hand grenades, they fought Israeli forces for more than half an hour. Two fighters were killed in the operation: 20-year-old Mohammad Dawla from the Al-Aqsa Brigades and 21-year-old Khaled Zaki Zohd from the National Resistance Brigades. Meanwhile, the Israeli army announced early on Thursday that Israeli forces killed an armed Palestinian near the electric fence in the northern Gaza Strip, stating that soldiers opened fire at a Palestinian fighter approaching the fence and killed him. No Palestinian faction or brigade has claimed responsibility for this operation yet, and Israeli forces have still not returned his corpse to Palestinian authorities. In related developments, several Israeli communities and towns in the western Negev and the Erez crossing were attacked with homemade projectiles and mortar shells launched by Palestinian fighters. An Israeli woman in Yad Mordechai was lightly injured, and a fire broke out from the shelling near Kibbutz Beiri in the Negev. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 Is it something genetic: color blindness etc...? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-06-13 19:24 |
| #4 Also killed in the explosion were the finance director in the Hamas Interior Ministry - who was also a member of Izzadin Kassam - a commander of the Hamas anti-aircraft unit and a commander of the group's rocket manufacturing unit, Israel Radio reported. That's a pretty good score. Thanks, idiots... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-06-13 11:02 |
| #3 Israeli killing machine Roll Zionist Tide! |
| Posted by: George Smiley 2008-06-13 09:07 |
| #2 Darwin's law: unfit to live |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-06-13 06:54 |
| #1 Hamas admits setting off massive Gaza blast That didn't take long. |
| Posted by: ryuge 2008-06-13 06:26 |