Israeli forces kill at least four Palestinians in Gaza Strip
albawaba | 14.05.2003 06:01
Palestinian officials said Israeli undercover soldiers who drove up to a Palestinian guard post in a civilian car shot dead two security men and wounded two others in an exchange of fire near the Jewish settlement of Netzarim.
Israeli forces kill at least four Palestinians in Gaza Strip
Israeli forces kill at least four Palestinians in Gaza Strip
Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip killed at least four Palestinian security men in a gun battle and wounded at least 30 people in a separate raid on a refugee camp on Wednesday, Palestinian officials and witnesses said.
The bloodshed followed a mortar bomb attack that wounded 10 Israeli soldiers on Tuesday.
Palestinian officials said Israeli undercover soldiers who drove up to a Palestinian guard post in a civilian car shot dead two security men and wounded two others in an exchange of fire near the Jewish settlement of Netzarim.
Earlier, an Israeli armored force backed by helicopter gunships raided the Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip. Hospital officials said some 20 Palestinians were wounded by a missile fired by an Apache helicopter. Witnesses said Israeli bulldozers destroyed four houses before the force withdrew.
Palestinian governor Hosni Zoaroub said bulldozers tore down 10 buildings in the camp. He said 60 people were left homeless. Also Wednesday, explosions and gunfire were heard north of Gaza City in the area of Beit Lahiya, witnesses said.
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Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip killed at least four Palestinian security men in a gun battle and wounded at least 30 people in a separate raid on a refugee camp on Wednesday, Palestinian officials and witnesses said.
The bloodshed followed a mortar bomb attack that wounded 10 Israeli soldiers on Tuesday.
Palestinian officials said Israeli undercover soldiers who drove up to a Palestinian guard post in a civilian car shot dead two security men and wounded two others in an exchange of fire near the Jewish settlement of Netzarim.
Earlier, an Israeli armored force backed by helicopter gunships raided the Khan Younis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip. Hospital officials said some 20 Palestinians were wounded by a missile fired by an Apache helicopter. Witnesses said Israeli bulldozers destroyed four houses before the force withdrew.
Palestinian governor Hosni Zoaroub said bulldozers tore down 10 buildings in the camp. He said 60 people were left homeless. Also Wednesday, explosions and gunfire were heard north of Gaza City in the area of Beit Lahiya, witnesses said.
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Surreal Realist!
14.05.2003 10:13
Despite the Sharon govt's attempt to cover things up, by refusing a UN inquiry etc, its common knowledge that there was what any sane person WOULD call a massacre in Jenin.
But don't take it from me...
BBC News
Monday, 4 November, 2002, 05:48 GMT
Amnesty says Jenin operation 'war crime'
The onslaught left the Jenin refugee camp in ruins
By Ian MacWilliam
The human rights organisation, Amnesty International, has accused the Israeli army of committing war crimes during its incursions into the West Bank towns of Jenin and Nablus earlier this year.
In a new report, the London-based organisation says that some of the actions carried out by Israeli forces during their military operations between April and June breached the Fourth Geneva Convention.
The Amnesty report, some details of which were released in April shortly after their investigation, is also critical of an earlier United Nations report on the Israeli incursions.
The group calls upon Israel and the international community to investigate those responsible.
Israel sent its forces into Jenin in April after a series of suicide bombings, saying the attacks were being planned there.
Amnesty says the army killed civilians, tortured prisoners, destroyed houses and prevented the arrival of humanitarian aid in the Palestinian towns.
Amnesty believes that over 50 Palestinians were killed in the fighting in Jenin, and at least another 80 in Nablus, many of them civilians.
Women and children were among the dead.
The United Nations earlier issued a report into the Israeli incursions, which concluded that no widespread killings had occurred.
But Amnesty points out that as UN officials did not actually visit Jenin, the report was no substitute for a thorough and impartial investigation.
Last month Amnesty strongly condemned a suicide bombing which killed 14 people in northern Israel, and called on all Palestinian armed groups to end attacks on civilians immediately.
Mad Monk
Ahem. Yes. of course.
14.05.2003 11:42
As are Amnesty International.
And the UN.
And anyone else who disagrees with the Israeli Army (lets cut out this "defence force" bullshit).
While the Israeli government/Army are all pure-hearted truthful types who could no more tell a lie than blow the legs off a stone throwing child with a high explosive tank round.
Apologists for such war crimes like yourselves are amazing. Its like you've all trained as military press officers.
You deserve to get Ram popping up and calling you "white pigs" for such closed-minded acceptance of the "official" version of events.
See no evil, hear no evil, speak a load of bollocks.
Israel has not had scores of UN resolutions passed against it since the 1950s because of "lies", its because its governments have been increasingly Out Of Order.
MM
Disappointed