Image Credit: Mohammed Omer, Rafah Today 2006-09-15.
Israel Terrorizes Gaza Neighborhood, Destroys Empty House
Rafah Today via BBSNews 2006-09-17 -- By Mohammed Omer. Rafah and it's the early morning here, or to be more accurate, 2 o'clock in the morning, I was wondering what an Israeli F16's pilot is doing at this moment, hovering over the sky of Gaza and making all these scary sonic booms. Ten minutes later, the same F16s bombed a house at Al Barazil neighborhood in Rafah, which is close to the borderline. Of course, I was unable to sleep, as ambulances started moving around. They expected something to happen, but nothing happened. The house was empty and the Israeli F16 bombed it in a strike that woke people up the entire night.
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A policeman looking at the car after the attack on the car of the intelligence officials.
Image Credit: Mohammed Omer, Rafah Today 2006-09-15. |
In Gaza City, it was not different. Five Palestinian intelligence officers have been gunned down by unknown attackers in Gaza City near the home of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya this morning. The five men, one a General, were driving in a car in the Al Shati Refugee camp in Gaza City when unknown gunmen in a jeep raked their vehicle with gunfire, killing them instantly.
One of the victims was Jihad Tayah, a colonel responsible for [the] international relations department within the intelligence security service, which is considered part of the Palestinian Authority organization. The five bodies were wearing civilian clothes. They were immediately transferred to Al Shifa hospital in Gaza City. No more information has been given about this issue.
In Gaza City also, a big fire erupted in one of the 10 floor buildings where most of the media offices and news agencies are located. The fire caused damage to the Aramex Postal Service Office. One person was burned and died inside the office. No cause for the fire is known.
This morning, three bombs by unknown groups exploded near the old Church in Gaza City, leaving damage to nearby buildings. The Palestinian police are investigating, but no more information was given about the attack.
Weddings amid devastation!
This morning, 84 Palestinian couples from Rafah are getting married in a collective wedding party. The wedding party is still going on despite of the fact that Palestinians are under international economic siege and blockade imposed by the international community, the US, the EU and other courtiers.: "We will celebrate our weddings in spite of the bad situation," said one of the grooms at the wedding. "We want to prove to the world, that we still want to get married, love, and keep living," he added.
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, or write to him to get a more complete picture of what is really happening that main-stream news sources rarely brings to its audience. We are proud to feature articles from Mohammed Omer here at BBSNews, his reporting is some of the only original, on the ground reporting available from the Israeli Occupied Territories.
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