Two Palestinians killed, 4 injured by Israeli air strikes on Beit Hanoun

Thursday September 27, 2007 10:14 by Nisreen Qumsieh - IMEMC News

Two Palestinians were killed and four others injured in new Israeli military air strike on the Beit Hanoun area of the northern Gaza Strip in the early hours of Thursday morning.

Injured Palestinian / archive photo

Medical sources told WAFA that Israeli planes fired rockets at a crowd of civilians, killing the two men and causing serious injuries to another four people. The two dead were named as Raji Hamdan and Mohammad Abu Rukba

The same sources reported that Israeli plans and tanks opened fire randomly on ambulance crews, who had been directed to the area to pick up the dead and the injured.

Earlier on Wednesday, seven Palestinians were killed and scores injured, some of them critically, during separate Israeli raids attacks on Gaza city and Beit Hanoun. While on Tuesday, two members of Hamas were killed by an Israeli strike near Beit Hanoun. The deaths of the two Palestinians on Thursday morning has increased the number of the people in the last two days to 11 killed.

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