Four residents, including three children killed in the Gaza Strip

Wednesday August 29, 2007 23:05 by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

Palestinian medical sources in Gaza city reported on Wednesday at night that the number of residents who were killed in the Gaza Strip arrived to four, including one who died of earlier wounds.

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Earlier in the day, two children were killed when the army fired a surface-to-surface missile at a group of residents in Abu Safiyya area, in Jabalia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

The two children were identified as Yahia Ramadan Abu Ghazala, and Mahmoud Mousa Abu Ghazala. A third child, identified as Sara Abu Ghazal suffered serious wounds and was moved to Kamal Adwan hospital.

Moreover, a third child died of wounds sustained Thursday when the army fired a tank shell at a house in Beit Lahia, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

Dr. Muawiya Hassanen, head of the Emergency Unit at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, reported on Thursday evening that one resident died of wounds sustained during an earlier military shelling to Al Zaytoun neighborhood in Gaza City.

Dr, Hassanen stated that Sameh Nasser Riziq al Sawafeery, 20, died on Thursday at the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza. Al Sawafeery was seriously injured on Thursday August 23, when the army fired shells at residents in Gaza City.

He was injured by fragments that penetrated his skull and centered in his brain, while his companion, Ahed Abu Jabal died instantly during the shelling.

Meanwhile, the Al Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad, and the Al Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, along with other resistance groups, vowed fierce retaliation to the Israeli offensives.

Two children killed by Israeli army fire in northern Gaza, as a fighter dies of wounds
Rami Almeghari, IMEMC & Agencies, Wed, 29 Aug 2007 18:43:06

At least two Palestinian children have been killed and a number of others wounded when Israeli army opened heavy fire on a group of children just close to the northern Gaza-Israel border line.

Palestinian medics reported that Yehya Abu Ghazzala and Mahmoud Abu Ghazzala were killed, the latter’s sister and a fourth unknown child were wounded with shrapnel.

In the meantime, the Ezzieldin Alqassam Brigades, the militant offshoot of Hamas movement, announced Wednesday the death of its member Sameh Alsawafeeri, due to wounds the latter sustained earlier during an Israeli attack.

Israeli army troops have recently reinforced presence in the northern Gaza Strip, under the pretext of preventing Palestinian resistance groups from firing homemade shells into adjacent Israeli towns.

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