Israeli strikes kill Palestinian boy and a man
Palestine-Israel, Politics, 5/21/2008

Two people were killed in separate Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Aircraft fired missiles at a group of children near Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza, decapitating a boy, 13, and wounding two others. One man was also killed in the air raid.

Israel frequently fires missiles and launches brief land raids into the Gaza Strip, killing at least 14 civilians over the past two weeks.

Meantime, four Palestinian were wounded today in Israeli air raid on a civil car in the Gaza Strip town of Jabalya, witnesses said.

They added an Israeli drone fired a missile on a car traveling in al-Falouja area and wounded four citizens, including three children. They were taken to Kamal Edwan hospital for treatment.

Also, Israeli military cruisers bombed in the morning the Palestinian fishermen boats on the coast of Gaza city, north-west Gaza city, local sources said.

They added that the Israeli boats headed toward the Palestinian boats in al-Soudaniya area and opened random fire shooting, inflicting a grave damage to them but no causalities were reported so far.

Hospital sources said on Wednesday morning that a citizen died as being refused by Israeli Occupation Authorities to leave the Gaza Strip for proper medical treatment. The sources told WAFA that the aging citizen Yassin Qanneta has joined the victims of the Israeli siege imposed on the Gaza Strip and died today of his acute disease.

The victims of the Israeli ongoing blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip mounted to 161 citizens.

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