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Image Credit: Mohammed Omer, Rafah Today 2006-07-27.
By Mohammed Omer, from the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Rafah Today via BBSNews 2006-07-30 -- July 27th, 2006. In an air raid launched by the Israeli occupation F16s and artilleries fire at several parts of Gaza Strip today[.] [N]ine Palestinians were killed including an enfant, less than two months, a girl and three family members as well as 45 wounded. This after the most offensive attack in the eastern part of Gaza city leaving 26 people killed and over 75 injured. [T]he attack is still going on and the number of injured and killed people is ra[p]idly increasing in Gaza.
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Palestinian woman amidst the [Gaza] destruction.
Image Credit: Mohammed Omer, Rafah Today 2006-07-27. |
Israeli occupation soldiers invaded today [at] dawn[,] east [of] Gaza city and north the Strip, heading off from the military bases nearby the eastern fence off wall separating east Gaza city and Israel, meanwhile, F-16s continued to fire missiles on the residents' houses on the claim of housing weapon stockpiles.
In Al Aha'af area, east of Al Shejayah neighborhood, the Israeli artilleries fired a cluster of missiles, killing seven residents and many were injured.
[S]even Palestinians were killed among were two children and three from one family in Al Shejayia neighborhood, east Gaza city, eight others were wounded, three critically.' Said Dr. Mawia Hassanen, the head of emergency and ambulance at Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City.
In an incursion after midnight by the Israeli troop escorted by aerial cover, into Salah Al din Main road where IOF jetfighter fired a missile at a gather of fighters belongs to Saraya Al Quds, Islamic Jihad military wing, killing the fighter Yasser Banat and wounding five others.
Medics reported that three members of Salam Suadi family were killed. Later one medical source asserted that three other[s] were also killed. [A]mong [the dead] were Salah Hussnein, 18, and two others unidentified by the Israeli rockets against a gathering of people in Al Shejayia.
The IOF missiles killed today morning three-year old Sauda Nasser Habeib and her mother and Mohammed AL Buheiti, 22. [T]he attack is still going on and the number of injured people is increasing.
In Jabalyia camp, north the Strip the situations are no better but a member of ministry' of interior paramilitary identified as Mohammed Adass, 22 years[-]old[,] was killed in the attacks.
To this point, IOF jetfighters fired a missile at the house of Yousef Al Nijma, member of Hamas in Jablyia refugee camp. Palestinian sources said that the owner of the houses had been notified by the Israeli occupation forces that his house will be knocked down by the Israeli jetfighters on the pretenses of having inside a weapon stockpile. The house was totally devastated. One of the neighbors said, "they called him and they asked him to evacuate [the] home immediately, the damage ended up by full destruction targeting the whole camp and many casualties were reported in the air raid"
[O]nce again, and this time in the southern part of Gaza as the Israeli helic[o]pters bombardment on the residents' houses in Al Barzil neighborhood of Rafah city and targeted for the third time a house [that] belongs to Qefsha family.
Also, [a] Palestine TV cameraman, Yousef Al Otla was critically wounded while covering the Israeli occupation attack at Al Tuffah area. The medical sources said that he [is] critical[ly] injured and he is in a very bad situations in the hospital. He left bleeding for many house after the camera fill down and from his head while he was wearing his [bullet-proof] jacket and helmet, but that didn’t protect him, since the Israeli bullet invaded his body leaving him seriously injured.
Al Otla was filming the Israeli attack on the neighborhood when a missile targeted him wounding him critically and wounding moderately his assistant Muhesen Badra.
Targeting journalists and photographers seems to be the first on the Israeli Army's agenda and if this continue[s] then I would assu[r]e you that freedom of speech was murdered by the most democratic state and the most moral soldiers in the world.
July 23rd, 2006
Once again while the world is protesting to stop the war on Palestinians and Lebanese [all-over] the world, but the invasions are still going on and the attack is getting heavier by targeting more and more civilians in Gaza Strip.
Four Palestinians were killed by Israeli helicopters fired on Thursday leaving 5 people dead in the Eastern part of Gaza City.
I have been told by some eyewitnesses that the family were sleeping on the roo[f] of the house when there is no electricity and no water inside home, so they prefer to sleep on the roof on their house, but they didn’t wake up, because the ambulances crew had to collect their flesh fragments from the rood of the house after they were all bombed while they were sleeping.
Wasn’t that a crime against humanity? I believe any human would say that it is a crime against all international laws. Israel is breaking the laws and even make Palestinians not able to count the large numbers of people being killed and injured by the Israeli Occupation Forces.
The attack ended up at Al Maghazi Camp by killing 16 people and over 130 whom were injured, many who had lost their legs, arms and fingers. 52 of them whom were children as I have been told by some medical sources.
A 10-year-old girl died of wounds sustained when the assault began on Wednesday. Her mother died in the attack as well.
Horrific scenes of bloodied children with severe shrapnel wounds being rushed to casualty in the neighboring Deir Al Balah refugee camp rushing into the hospitals and getting into the hospital after being injured at Al Maghazi Camp in the middle of Gaza.
Even Abbas cars and a[m]bulances are targeted!
A car from Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Force 17 protection unit came under heavy fire from Israeli warships stationed off the coast, wounding a security officer, medical sources said.
It's not new, and for the hundreds of times in the Palestinian history that a female ambulance worker was also wounded by the shelling, with the Israeli military confirming ships had fired
Life is just awful here, no means for living and it seems that Palestinians are born to get killed by the Israeli Army and to be more specific by a US-made weapons and with international and European green light to Israel to carry [out] more attacks against humanity in Gaza Strip!
Mohammed Omer is a young journalist/photographer in the Gaza Strip. He and his family have a very rough time in living day to day and they have lost much. In October of 2003, one of Mohammed's younger bothers, Issam, was injured and had to have a leg amputated. Later in the same month another younger brother, Hussam Al-Mouhagir, was killed in his home; shot to death by the Israeli Army that occupies and regularly devastates Palestine. These stories are written by Mohammed who knows no peace, only the continued devastation forced upon civilians who have little voice in the world. Mohammed has covered the Occupied Territories for several years. Visit Mohammed's Web site to get a more complete picture of what is really happening that main-stream news sources rarely brings to its audience.
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