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Elderly Woman Among 7 Palestinians Killed Since Sunday
The Palestine Chronicle
August 6, 2004
Jerusalem -- Israeli forces killed at least three Palestinians and wounded sixteen more in an air strike launched by US-made Apache helicopters early Tuesday on the densely-populated Yubna refugee camp, raising the Palestinian death to seven since Sunday and to more than 3,436 since the Intifada (uprising) against the Israeli occupation broke out some four years ago.
Bodies of Mohammad Abu Al-Nada, 18, Akram Al-Habibi, 31, and Muyasara Abu Saneima (a woman), 19, were shred to pieces in Yubna refugee camp near Rafah in southern Gaza Strip, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
Among the wounded was a Reuters TV cameraman who suffered a shrapnel wound in his hand, witnesses and hospital officials told Associated Press.
More than 30 tanks and military vehicles invaded the camp overnight Tuesday and demolished at least 12 houses, only a day after demolishing 9 more houses in Khan Yunis, a few kilometers to the south.
Witnesses told Associated Press the air strike early Tuesday was launched as Palestinian residents gathered to inspect the damage caused overnight by the Israeli forces.
As they gathered - along with several journalists - an explosion rocked the area, throwing people to the ground, their bodies covered in blood, residents said. Three people were killed immediately.
On Sunday Israeli forces' sporadic gunfire killed a Palestinian elderly woman in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah.
Nimah Abu Sahlool, 45, was killed at home when IOF invaded the Khan Yunis refugee camp.
Israeli forces killed 222 Palestinian women since the Intifada (uprising) broke out on 28 September 2000, Palestinian Minister of Health Jawad Al-Teibi said Monday.
Britain on Monday voiced concern about Israel's "operations" in Gaza Strip.
In a statement issued in London, Foreign Office minister Baroness Symons said: "I am also extremely concerned about continued IDF (Israeli Defence Force) operations in the Gaza Strip.
"Israel has the right to defend itself but IDF actions in the Gaza Strip are excessive and not enough is being done to avoid deaths and injury to innocent civilians."
On Monday Israeli forces shot dead three Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip.
Isam Adnan Alk-Marnakh, 22, Mahmud Nabil Matar, 19, and Ali Mousa Sammour, 20, were killed in a clash with Israeli troops when they stormed into an Israeli Forces post guarding an illegal Jewish settlement in the north of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian press reported Tuesday.
On Monday also former leading member of Hamas Walid Hamdiya was shot dead in hospital, becoming the third collaborator to be killed after a grenade attack at Gaza City's main prison. Nine inmates were seriously and moderately injured in the attack.
The three collaborators were convicted by Palestinian courts of providing the Israeli forces with information that led to the extra-judicial execution of Hamas leading activists.
Separately the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in a meeting chaired by President Yaser Arafat in Ramallah Sunday declared Wednesday, 18 August 2004, a national day in solidarity with more than 7,500 Palestinian detainees in the jails of the Israeli forces.
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