Gaza exposed for second running day to Israeli raids; four killed, 7 houses demolished
Palestine-Israel, Military, 3/18/2004

The Israeli occupation forces yesterday and for the second running day escalated its attacks against Gaza and carried out two raids coincided with incursion operations in Rafah camp and this resulted in killing four Palestinians and wounding 15 as well as demolishing 7 houses.

Dr, Ali Mousa, director of Rafah hospital said that 4 Palestinian citizens were killed including two children in the Israeli raids which were carried out by the Israeli occupation forces before noon. He said that a Palestinian teenager called Ala' Nuheili ( 15 year old) died after he was transported to the hospital in the raid which also resulted in killing another teenager Musbah Muwafi ( 14 year old) earlier in the day. Eight Palestinians were injured in the raid including three in critical health conditions.

A Palestinian security spokesman said that more than 32 military tank escorted by military bulldozers invaded yesterday Rafah camp and al-Salam quarters in Rafah. People of the area said that the Israeli army demolished 7 houses at least.

Meantime, the founder of the Hamas movement, Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, ruled out the idea of having an Israeli invasion of Gaza, noting that Israel's losses of such an invasion will be very big. In a statement to the Internet website of Ezz Eddine al-Qassam group, the military wing of the Hamas movement, Yassin said that "Israel is more than unable to do so because it does not know the volume of resistance it will face and the losses it will pay." He continued that Israel had repeatedly tried to overcome Hamas forces, and every and each time the movement comes out stronger than before."

Meantime, Israeli military sources said that the Israeli army detained four Palestinians including the local official for al-Aqsa martyrs group, linked to Fatah movement.

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