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Israeli Army shoots 9 year old and 14 year old
boys in the head

Independent Digital (UK) Ltd
News

Israelis kill boy, 9, as army enters Gaza camp
By Eric Silver in Jerusalem
03 March 2003

Israeli troops killed three Palestinians, including a boy aged nine, when
tanks,
backed by helicopter gunships, raided the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the
southern Gaza Strip yesterday.

Palestinian doctors treated 39 wounded. They said the two dead adults were
a gunman resisting the armoured incursion and a man aged 55 whose home was
hit by a tank shell. Two Israeli soldiers were wounded.

The boy was one of a group of children taunting Israeli soldiers with
stones
during the funeral of the two men killed earlier in the day. The doctors
said
he died in hospital after soldiers shot him in the head.

Army engineers demolished four buildings, including an eight-storey block
of
flats which, the Israelis said, was used by Palestinian snipers firing at
the Neve Dekalim Jewish settlement. A soldier was shot dead from an upper
floor there
last week.

A military spokesman said that most of the residents had left the building
last
month after Israel told them it would be demolished. The remainder moved
out yesterday after they were warned that the bulldozers were coming. The
lower
floors had been used to launch Kassam rockets at Israeli troops and
settlers,
the spokesman said. The three other buildings were deserted.

Israeli sappers safely detonated a 50kg roadside bomb near the Netzarim
settlement in northern Gaza Strip earlier yesterday. An improvised mine had
destroyed a tank and killed its four-man crew on the same road two weeks
ago. Israel resumed its offensive yesterday after a brief respite. The main
target is Hamas, which has been testing Ariel Sharon's re-elected
government
by firing Kassam rockets at Sderot, a small industrial town on the Israeli
side
of the border. So far, they have caused no casualties.

Hamas is also challenging Yasser Arafat's debilitated security forces for
control of the Gaza Strip. Israel wants to weaken Hamas and give Mr Arafat
a chance to introduce reforms. The Palestinian leader agreed last week to
appoint a prime minister.

The Shin Bet internal security service disclosed yesterday that it had
recently arrested Fadi Murtaja, a Hamas militant who allegedly planned to
ambush a
convoy carrying Mr Sharon. He belonged to a Hamas cell in Bethlehem, which
is said to have taken its orders from Gaza. The cell was also accused of
plotting to shoot up a synagogue.

The security services arrested five wanted men in the Bethlehem and
Hebron areas said to have been involved in planning suicide bombings
and trying to smuggle a booby-trapped car into Israel.

. Israeli tanks moved into the Nusseirat and Bureij refugee camps in
central Gaza Strip early this morning, firing shells and machine guns.
A 14-year-old boy was shot and killed and 11 other Palestinians were
wounded, hospital officials said. Tanks surrounded two houses in Bureij,
apparently planning to destroy them. One of the houses belongs to
Mohammed Taha, the local Hamas leader.

2 March 2003 22:18
© 2003 Independent Digital (UK) Ltd

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