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Israelis Kill Girl, Hamas Men
Arab News, Nazir Majally, Asharq Al-Awsat
GAZA CITY, 31 August 2003 — Israel killed a leading Hamas member and his assistant yesterday in a helicopter missile strike, the latest in a series of attacks that have sent militants into hiding and heightened tensions between Palestinian and Israeli leaders.
Israeli troops also killed an eight-year-old girl and wounded seven other Palestinians with submachine gun fire in the Gaza Strip’s Khan Younis refugee camp, witnesses and hospital officials said. The girl, Aya Fayad, was shot in the chest by soldiers firing at the camp from a nearby military base.
Army officials didn’t immediately have details.
Earlier, Israeli helicopters fired four missiles at a pickup truck carrying the two Palestinian men, witnesses said. It was the fifth Israeli missile strike aimed at Hamas militants in 10 days.
The vehicle had been moving slowly in traffic — turning from a side road onto a main highway between the refugee camps of Nusseirat and Bureij — when it was hit and burst into flames, witnesses said. Rescue workers rushed to remove the bodies, including one that was badly burned and missing a leg. Two bystanders also were wounded.
“A missile came and hit the car from the front, followed by another two. I saw one of the men inside the car jump out the window, but another missile hit him,” said Balal, 35, a witness who gave only his first name.
The two killed were identified as Abdullah Akel, 37, and his assistant Farid Mayet, 40, both members of the Hamas military wing, Ezzedine Al-Qassam. Waving green Hamas banners and calling for revenge, some 5,000 Palestinians marched through the Nusseirat and Bureij refugee camps in a funeral procession for the two men.
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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