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Israeli Occupation Forces Shoot Dead 6 Palestinians 'by Mistake’, Including 2 Boys
29/11/2003
Palestine Media Center – PMC
Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) during the Islamic of Eid al-Fitre shot dead six Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, including two nine and 15-year-old boys, and admitted they had killed the other unarmed four by mistake.
An IOF sniper on Friday shot dead 35-year old Palestinian Sayed Abu Safra in northern Gaza Strip.
Abu Safra was trying to prevent a mentally deranged individual from approaching the northern illegal Jewish settlement of Dugit when the IOF soldiers opened fire, Palestinian medical and security sources said.
The sources said Abu Safra was a member of the Palestinian security services.
The IOF expressed "sorrow and regret" over the incident and said the soldiers involved were suspended from duty at least until the end of a military investigation.
An IOF spokesman said soldiers guarding a cluster of three illegal Jewish settlements fired toward a crowd of about 40 Palestinians to prevent them approaching the fence, killing one civilian.
Separately the 15-year old Palestinian Rashad Tawfiq Mur died on Thursday of wounds sustained by IOF gunfire a day earlier in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, WAFA reported.
Overnight Thursday the IOF shot dead three unarmed Palestinians, namely Khaled Ahmad Alsmairi, Osama Sulaiman Alsmairi and Ibrahim Mousa Alsmairi in Wadi al-Salaka village southeast of Dir Albalah in central Gaza Strip.
IOF sources first claimed that the three Palestinians were killed while planning to set up an ambush on a road used by Jewish settlers. The IOF alleged at least two of the Palestinians were members of the Islamic Jihad group.
Later Israeli occupation troops admitted they shot dead three men in a car on a southern Gaza road used by Jewish settlers, believing they were “militants” about to attack. But no arms were found in the car and an inquiry was launched, IOF sources said.
Relatives said the three men were cousins returning from a family gathering on the Muslim Eid al-Fitre feast holiday and had nothing to do with attacks.
Late Wednesday nine-year-old Palestinian boy, Hani Salem al-Rabaia, was killed in the southern Gaza refugee camp of Rafah by gunfire coming from an IOF post on the nearby border with Egypt.
Al-Rabayah died shortly after arriving at the town's hospital at around 5:00 pm (1500 GMT), hospital director Ali Mussa told AFP.
IOF soldiers in a watch tower fired at the camp, killing the 9-year-old boy while he was playing in front of his house, Palestinians said. The IOF said they knew of no gunfire incidents in the area.
The IOF stormed the northern West Bank city of Jenin on the first day of Eid Al-Fitre.
They wounded and detained three Palestinians during another military incursion into Jenin early Thursday and detained 6 others in Beit Fajjar near Bethlehem in the south of the West Bank.
On Thursday also the IOF demolished the house of martyr Walid Abu Ubaido’s father in Hebron, WAFA reported.
On the second day of the Eid, Tuesday, IOF shot, wounded and detained Mohammad Yousef Azzam in the southern West Bank town of Yatta.
Separately the IOF expelled late last Sunday three Palestinians from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip without trial. Ahmed al-Mushkah, 27, from Jenin, was the first to be taken to the Gaza boundary, IOF sources told Reuters.
"Even if Israel moves all Palestinians anywhere in the world, it will not help it," Mushkah told reporters on arrival at the Beit Hanoon (Erez) crossing. He added he was a member of Islamic Jihad.
The other two Palestinians, identified as Hamas activists Alla Hassuna, 28, from Nablus and Samer Bader, 27, from Ramallah were also deported late on Sunday.
All three were barred from returning to the West Bank for two years, IOF sources said, according to Reuters.
The three deportees were among 18 West Bank Palestinians slated for expulsion to Gaza for alleged complicity in armed attacks, having exhausted Israel’s Supreme Court appeals against the decision. The first two were deported earlier this month.
"This transfer is a huge crime against our people," Palestinian National Security chief Major-General Abdel-Razek al-Majayda told Reuters.
Palestinians and international human rights groups have censured such measures in the past as violations of international law. Last year, Israel deported to Gaza two Palestinians accused of helping a bomber.
Meanwhile the IOF continued their campaign of arrests among Palestinian activists.
They detained Sunday 3 brothers of Daraghmah family in the northern West Bank town of Tobas.
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