Some 12 Palestinians killed in Israeli bombardment on Rafah
Palestine-Israel, Military, 5/18/2004

The Israeli military helicopters today at dawn launched missiles at Rafah city and this resulted in killing 12 Palestinians and injuring more 30. One Palestinian was also killed in al-Shaboura quarters earlier in an explosion whose reasons were not known.

News reports in Gaza said that Tel al-Sultan quarters is continuously exposed to bombardment and large number of wounded Palestinians are arriving in Abu Youssef al-Najjar hospital in Rafah which is no longer able to accommodate the wounded and the bodies of the killed Palestinians.

The reports added that the occupation forces impose curfew in the quarters and besieged it from every side and are firing at ambulances. Witnesses said that the soldiers who are positioned on the roofs of houses are snipping every moving element.

These developments came after the occupation forces completed its measures aiming at isolating the city of Rafah and its camp from Gaza in preparation to invade it and deployed more of its armored vehicles to the lands separating between Rafah and Khan Younis.

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