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AP. 7 October 2002. Twelve Palestinians killed, 110 wounded in Israeli
raid of Gaza town.
KHAN YOUNIS -- Israeli troops raiding this town with tanks and
helicopters killed 12 Palestinians early Monday, including 10 who died
when a missile slammed into a large crowd.
Palestinian officials said all the dead were civilians.
About 110 Palestinians were wounded in the four-hour raid, including 25
who were in critical condition, doctors said.
Most suffered shrapnel wounds in the head, chest and abdomen. The dead
ranged in age from 14 to 52.
Later, Israeli troops fired machine guns and assault rifles at a Khan
Younis hospital where most of the wounded were taken, injuring four more
people.
Palestinians denounced the Israeli strike, the deadliest since July, as
a massacre and called for international protection.
Wissam Abdeen, 29, said that as troops withdrew, residents emerged from
their homes to inspect the damage and check on the fate of friends and
relatives.
"We heard the sound of helicopters," said Abdeen, who was hit by
shrapnel in his arm. "Two minutes later, I heard the sound of something
coming from the air and I saw the flames. Then a big explosion lifted me
and blew me 10 yards away."
Another resident, Abedi Ashour, 24, said he was emerging from his
apartment when he heard the explosion.
"People were bleeding, many of them lying on the ground. Women were
screaming and blood covered the ground," he said.
Later Monday, Israeli troops fired into Nasser Hospital [!!] in Khan
Younis, where hundreds of people had gathered to learn about the fate of
loved ones.
Among the wounded were a 14-year-old boy hit in the neck and a paramedic
struck in the chest.
Two bullets narrowly missed this reporter.
The dead, wrapped in Palestinian flags, were taken from the hospital on
stretchers, carried by gunmen who fired in the air to shouts of
"revenge, revenge."
Both Hamas and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement
threatened revenge.
"We will make the Zionist enemy swallow the bitter drink very soon," a
masked Fatah activist, armed with a machine gun and grenades stuffed
into a belt, told mourners.
Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a Hamas leader, said: "Everyone should know that as
our people were not safe in Khan Younis, so Israelis will not be safe in
Tel Aviv. We will strike everywhere."
The Israeli raid of Khan Younis began shortly after midnight. About 40
tanks, backed by helicopters, entered the town and shelled houses on the
main street.
Palestinian Cabinet Minister Saeb Erekat denounced the Israeli raid as a
massacre.
"Every time we witness efforts to revive the peace process and put it
back on track, like those being exerted now by Solana, the Israeli
government moves to conduct such war crimes and murder innocent
civilians because the end game of the Israeli government is to resume
full occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank," Erekat said.
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