Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday February 27th, 2008.
Seven Palestinians killed during Israeli army attacks on Gaza, while in the West Bank undercover army forces kill one Palestinian and injuring four, these stories and more coming up stay tuned.
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Palestinian medical sources reported that two Palestinian farmers were killed, on Wednesday afternoon, during Israeli shelling of farm land near Gaza city in the northern part of the coastal region.
Dr, Mo'awiah Abu Hassanin of the Palestinian ministry of health in Gaza told reporters that, two farmers were killed with two others injured when Israeli tanks stationed at the borders near Gaza city shelled nearby farmland .
Also on Wednesday afternoon, Israeli media sources reported that 17 Palestinian home made shells fired from Gaza landed in the nearby southern Israeli town of Sderot, killing one Israeli man, and injuring three others. Five resistance fighters, members of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, were killed, and three others wounded in Israeli air strike in the early morning.
The Al-Qassam brigades, identified the victims as their own, and stated that the attack was an Israeli targeted assassination. The brigades said those killed were "field members" of the group.
In the West Bank today the Israeli army killed one Palestinian, injured four and kidnapped at least 10 others from several cities and towns.
A special undercover unit of the Israeli army invaded the northern West Bank city of Nablus on Wednesday morning, killing one, wounding three and kidnapping five, local sources reported. Eyewitnesses stated that troops disguised as vegetable traders drove a truck into the city. Troops opened fire at a Palestinian security office in Nablus city as five resistance fighters from the Al Aqsa brigades the armed wing of Fatah were leaving.
The five fighters were injured, and taken political prisoner by the undercover force. The Israeli army later announced the death of Ibraheem al-Masemi, 25, one of those injured. He was handed over to Palestinian ambulance crews at a nearby military checkpoint.
Conclusion
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Debka
27.02.2008 16:39
An Israeli killed, 10 injured, in ongoing heavy Palestinian missile-mortar barrage Wednesday
February 27, 2008, 6:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
Last missile victim at Sderot's Sapir College
The last four exploded north of Gaza in Ashkelon, striking the Barzilai regional hospital and industrial zone and leaving several people in shock.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report 39 Qassam missiles and dozens of mortar shells crashed hitherto into Sderot, Shear Hanegev and Zikkim south of Ashkelon Wed. afternoon, Feb. 27. A student was killed and a second critically wounded beside a car in the Sapir College campus, which took a direct hit - as did two homes in Sderot and the Off Kor factory outside the town.
Ten people were injured and dozens suffered shock. The barrage followed an Israeli airborne rocket attack, which killed 8 members of Hamas’ armed wing, just returned from training in Iran or an Arab country, who were driving on a bus to a Hamas military facility near Khan Younes in the southern Gaza Strip.
Palestinian sources reported that three of the seven dead were senior members of the Hamas Qassam Brigades’ missile unit.
Later Wednesday, the Israeli air force was again in action to strike back at the Qassam launchers. The Palestinians reported at least two fatalities. Hamas threatened to continue shooting missiles in response to Israeli targeted attacks. DEBKAfile military sources report Hamas attacks on Israeli civilians were initiated before and continue day after day, whether or not Israel strikes back.
Their extremist leaders based in Damascus resist all international attempts to mediate a halt in their offensive.
Monday, a nine-year old Israel boy was seriously injured by a Qassam rocket which hit a group of children playing in Sderot.
On the West Bank, a wanted Palestinian was killed and 4 were injured, two seriously, resisting arrest by an Israeli counter-terror unit in Nablus. The group was suspected of plotting a large-scale terror attack in central Israel. Two were on the list of Fatah armed wing members who were granted Israeli amnesty, provided they renounced violence.
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