Some 10,000 Palestinians killed or wounded by Israel in al-Aqsa Intifada
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 12/2/2000

UNICEF has announced that some 310 Palestinians including 97 children were killed and other 9802 wounded by the Israeli bullets in the clashes with the Israeli occupation forces since the eruption of the Intifada in the occupied palestinian territories since September 28.

On Friday two Palestinians, including one child were killed at a time when the Israeli authorities summoned on more forces to the West Bank and Gaza strip, the Israeli daily Haartez said that 7 Israeli soldiers refused to join their units in the West Bank.

Meantime, Israeli settlers, under the protection of the Israeli forces started to install pre-fabricated houses near Deir al-Balah in the sector. In recent days the Israeli occupation forces confiscated hundreds of dunums of the Palestinian territories for that purpose.

Eye-witnesses said the Israeli soldiers demolished on Friday two Palestinian houses in al-Qarrarah town near Khan Younis.

Two Palestinians were killed one of them is a 12-year old teenager by the Israeli army bullet during Friday's confrontation in the West Bank and Gaza strip.

The director of Abu Youssef al-Najjar hospital in Rafah said that child Muhammad Saleh al-Arja ( 12 year old) was killed by a live bullet hit him in the neck by the Israeli soldier at Salah eddine Gate in Rafah.

The medical source added that four Palestinians were wounded during the same clashes while two Palestinians were also wounded in confrontations at al-Mintar crossing.

Other medical sources said that the Israeli army committed another crime in al-Somou' near al-Khalil to the south of the West Bank where the Palestinian Hamzeh al-Hassis ( 27 year old) was hit in his heart by the Israel fire bullets.

The Raas al-Amoud quarters in occupied Jerusalem on Friday witnesses violent confrontations between al-Intifada youths and the Israeli soldiers.

At Sultan Suleiman street in Jerusalem a demonstration was held in which the participants chanted slogans condemning Israel and they raised the Palestinian flags.

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