Mother of 10 children killed by Israel; 14 Palestinian dead
Palestine-Israel, Military, 3/7/2003

Some 11 Palestinians were killed and other 140 wounded including 40 in critical conditions, including 25 children and 4 journalists working for Reuters.

Those Palestinians were victims of a new Israeli attack committed by the Israeli forces which broke yesterday, using 20 tanks and 4 bulldozers, escorted by military helicopters into Jabalia camp in Gaza and fired its shells and missiles randomly, leaving behind this large number of victims.

These Israeli forces also totally demolished four Palestinian homes and damaged more than an additional 20 homes and destroyed electricity towers, telephone line, water networks and drainage systems.

An additional two Palestinians were killed. One was in Gaza and the second was in Bethlehem during the breaking in and inspection operations carried out by the Israeli forces in several areas in the West Bank and Gaza and arrested more than 20 Palestinians including Sheikh Omar al-Qawasemah, of the Hamas movement.

Palestinian medical sources said that a Palestinian woman mothering 10 children was killed yesterday at the courtyard of her house when the Israeli forces broke into one village near Jenin.

One official at al-Shefaa hospital in Gaza Mu'aweya Abu Hasanin said that the Israeli army used shells against the Palestinians while breaking into Jabalia town.

He said in a statement that most of the hits of the wounded are concentrated on the upper parts of the body and the most of the Palestinians were killed by the shells of internationally banned bombs.

In a statement Ezz Eddine al-Qassam group, the military wing of the Hamas movement said that its men detonated and damaged ten Israeli tanks and military vehicles.

For its part, al-Aqsa martyrs groups stressed it had destroyed an Israeli tank of Meirkava type and this resulted in killing or wounding its occupants.

The spokesman for Hamas stressed yesterday that his movement will continue fighting the Israeli occupation forces and that the resistance "will strongly rebuff the brutal massacres committed by the Israeli forces in Jabalia camp."

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