Four Palestinians from Hamas, the Islamic Jihad killed in Gaza
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/7/2002

Palestinian sources said on Monday that four Palestinians were killed on Monday at dawn in Gaza including two members of the Islamic Jihad movement while the other two belong to the Islamic resistance movement ( Hamas).

On Sunday, a Palestinian medical source said that one Palestinian was killed by the Israeli bullets and another one was wounded to the east of Gaza city, noting that Suheil Zeyadah ( 27 year old), from Jabalia camp was hit by a shell fired by the Israeli army.

Eye-witnesses said that Zeyadah was killed and another wounded during fire exchange between the Israeli army and armed Palestinians to the east of the Islamic Tomb to the northern east of Gaza. A Palestinian security source said that another Palestinian who was wounded by the Israeli bullets, died on Sunday evening after he was left by the Israeli army for several hours bleeding to death at the site where he was hit and prevented ambulances from reaching him.

The security source said that Mazin Rizq ( 23 years old ) from Jablia camp was wounded when the Israeli army opened fire and tanks shells at three Palestinians while approaching the borders. The security source added that "Rizq was left the whole night bleeding near the border with the green line to the east of Gaza, noting he died on Monday at dawn on the ground after the Israeli army prevented ambulances and the ICRC from reaching him or admitting him to hospital for rescue." The Ezz Eddine al-Qassam group, the military wing of the Hamas movement announced that " Zeyadah and Rizq were killed while they were on a mission to the east of the Martyrs Cemetery to the Easy of Gaza and the Israeli tanks besieged them and fired "nail shells" at them.

Meantime, the Palestinians said on Monday morning that the Israeli forces on Sunday evening incurred in the city of Toulkarem to the northern west of the West Bank and this resulted in killing a nine year old Palestinian child.

The Israeli mass media said that the Israeli forces incurred into the city which falls under the Palestinian authority following reports saying that Palestinian activists are planning an attack.

The Israeli forces, on the other hand, arrested one Palestinian in Qalandya and another one in Barqa village near Nablus and also a prominent figure in the Hamas movement called Ibrahim Sabeih in Jabal Mali village near Bethlehem.

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