Israeli Occupation Raid Kills Two Palestinians, Wounds 22 Others in Khan Younis

KHANYOUNIS, May 4, 2004 (IPC+WAFA)--

In a fresh incursion today morning into the refugee camp of khanyounis, two citizens were killed and 22 others wounded besides 30 houses were demolished.

Palestinian medical sources of khanyounis announced that Jameel Abu Mustafa, 16, and Belal Hamdan,25, were shot dead by the shrapnel of a missile hit by the warplane “Apache” towards a group of people , besides, 22 others were wounded, three critically.

Concurrently, an IOF contingent supported by conveys and caterpillars advanced deep under a volley of gunfire as copters were hovering ahead in Al Sad Al Ali of khan Younis refugee camp, south of Gaza strip and demolished 30 houses there

WAFA reported that 15 houses were totally destroyed by the Israeli troops, rendering the prospect of more than 40 families to get homeless.

In Hebron, fives citizens were arrested and seven others arrested during an Israeli onslaught into the city, when the Israeli soldiers fired a tear gas canisters fired in the morning , that is within the strict curfew imposed on the city. Meanwhile seven other citizens were arrested in halhoul town, north of Hebron city, WAFA reported.

Hebron city is under strict curfew for the fifth day in row, as the Israeli troop gripped its control over the city, and placed sandy barriers at the entire entrances.

Meanwhile, a mob of Jewish settlers destroyed 18 arable dunums and barred the farmers to reach their farmlands in Qweqes , south of Yatta , south of Hebron.

Witnesses told IPC’s that the settlers of the illegitimate settlement of “Magen David” that was built on the expropriated Palestinian owned lands of Yatta, attacked the aforementioned area and spoiled vast area of the arable lands.

Sources of the grassroots land defense said that a mob of Jewish settlers attacked the two farmers Yousef Ahmed Abu Al Debis and his brother Emad while they were harvesting their farms and forced them under the threat of gunfire to leave their lands.

Earth, a planet hungry for peace

The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03).

The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank, like a Python (Alquds, 1/25/03.

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