Palestinians destroy five Israeli Tanks, more Palestinians killed by Israel

The Israeli forces yesterday, backed by scores of tanks and Apache planes broke into al-Nuseirat and al-Breij camps in the downtown of Gaza and this resulted in killing ten Palestinians including one woman and two children and wounding more than 29 citizens as well as destroying several Palestinian homes.

Palestinian sources said that the Palestinian teenager Tareq Aqel ( 12 year old) was hit by a fatal bullet fired by the Israeli soldiers and the Palestinian Muhammad Issa died of wounds he had during the Israeli forces breaking into Nablus, to the north of the West Bank.

A Palestinian security source said that more than 70 Israeli tanks were stationed on the main cross- roads and certain allies of al-Breij camp opened fire intensively at houses and roads.

However, resistance men from the Hamas movement said through loudspeakers inside al-Nseirat camp that members of Ezz Eddine al-Qassam groups of the Hamas movement were able to blow up five Israeli tanks in the framework of resisting the Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people.

Eye witnesses said the Israeli army besieged three houses one of them for Abu Ayman Taha, the leading figure in Hamas and the two other houses for two members in the Islamic Jihad of al-Mansour and Ammouma family and asked their owners to evacuate them.

A Palestinian security source and a witness said that the Israeli soldiers exploded the two houses of Taha and Ammouma and as a result heavy losses were inflicted.

Meantime two Israeli soldiers were wounded in confrontations in al-Breij camp while inspection and breaking in operations continued in the two camps.