Israeli aggression in Rafah, 16 Palestinian children wounded, 7 killed
Palestine-Israel, Military, 4/21/2003

The Israeli occupation forces have escalated their bloody campaigns against the Palestinians by an attack of scores of tanks and Apache planes against Rafah and its camp and Nablus, resulted in killing 7 Palestinians and scores of wounded and also resulted in the destruction of several homes.

The Israeli radio said that the Israeli tanks and armored vehicles broke into Rafah camp where strong violations took place between the Israeli soldiers and the Palestinian resistance who destroyed an Israeli Meirkava tank and killed one Israeli soldier and wounding others.

The BBC correspondent said the Israeli forces prevented ambulances from transporting the Palestinian wounded to hospitals and ordered many citizens to get out of their houses in order to blow them up.

A Palestinian source explained that among the Palestinians who were killed in the attack in Rafah was Muhammad zanoun ( 22 year old) and Saeed al-Masri (28 year old) and thereby the number of Palestinians who were killed by Israel tolled to 2387 since the beginning of the Intifada.

Meanwhile, two Palestinians were killed yesterday morning in clashes with the Israeli forces in Nablus, when Palestinian youth threw explosives at Israeli military cars, while the Israeli forces opened fire at school children resulted in wounding 16 of them.

The chairman of the Israeli Sdeirot settlement in southern Israel admitted that one woman settler was wounded when three al-Qassam missiles hit the settlement.

Ezz Eddine al-Qassam group, the military wing of the Palestinian resistance movement ( Hamas) claimed responsibility for Sdeirout operation.

The Israeli radio said that an explosive went off yesterday when an Israeli military vehicle was passing near Sallet al-Zaher village in the West Bank. The radio gave no information of damage or casualties.

For its part, the Palestinian Authority yesterday appealed to the international community in order to interfere immediately to halt the Israeli aggressions against the Palestinians.

The Palestinian self rule official Saeb Oreikat said that the Palestinian Authority strongly denounced the Israeli aggression against Rafah and its camp which resulted in killing five Palestinians and wounding more than 40 in addition to destroying infrastructure, houses and damaging properties.

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