Israeli troops kill Palestinian teenager (+shoot pregnant woman, others)

[Aidoneus]

Israeli troops kill Palestinian teenager
Saturday 10 July 2004

A 16-year-old Palestinian girl has been killed by Israeli fire in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, Palestinian medics said.

Halima Uday Abu Samahdana took a bullet to the head when troops opened fire in the Shabura district of the impoverished town close to the Israeli-controlled border with Egypt, the medics and witnesses said on Saturday.

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Just hours later, two Palestinian women were also shot at and injured after Israeli occupation soldiers used live ammunition in northern Gaza's Bait Hanun.

Hospital director Mahmud al-Asali said one of the injured women - Latifa Abu Amsha - was shot at even though she is six months pregnant, and is now suffering internal bleeding and a broken leg.

Her mother, Jamila, said her 26-year-old daughter had been out to buy food and other essential supplies when the Israeli troops, who have reoccupied the town, opened fire.

"We were walking along when suddenly the army opened fire without warning," she told reporters, her clothes still soaked in her daughter's blood.

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/FDCAE89B-672E-46C1-8D97-C1556137FCEB.htm

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Israeli tank fire kills Palestinians
Saturday 10 July 2004

Four Palestinians were killed when a vehicle took a direct hit from Israeli tank fire in the central Gaza Strip.

Aljazeera correspondent Hiba Aqilah reported that three of the men were killed while travelling in their black Mercedes-Benz car on Gaza’s coastal road on Saturday, while the fourth was a motorcyclist passing by.

They were en route to Gaza City when the vehicle came under fire from an Israeli tank stationed in the illegal Jewish settlement of Netzarim, according to medics and eyewitnesses.

Palestinian officials said the tank was situated inside the illegal Jewish settlement and launched the attack from there.

Two of the occupants killed in the vehicle attack were members of the Nasir Salah al-Din Brigade identified as Hassan Nafiz Abu Dalal and Muhammad Mahdi Abu Zur, said the Aljazeera correspondent.

Three more people were injured in the blast, one seriously.

Some eyewitnesses initially thought the attack came from Apache helicopters which were also hovering over the area at the time.

"Israeli helicopter gunships have been attacking apartment blocks and vehicles at any time of day or night, in densely populated civilian areas, allegedly targeting certain individuals but wiping out entire families and their homes in the process," eyewitnesses said.

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D642575B-2BC4-4910-A68A-4BCEA2B34020.htm

[Beaker]

1. it really disgusts and angers me what side our country has chosen

in that fight.