A Palestinian resistance fighter killed by Israeli army in central Gaza

Wednesday December 12, 2007 14:26 by Rami Almeghari - IMEMC&Agencies

Local media sources in central Gaza Strip said that a Palestinian resistance fighter of the Saraya aL-Quds Brigades, of the Islamic Jihad group, has been killed after an Israeli tank fired a shell on a group of the Saraya fighters in eastern Gaza Strip.

Saraya aL-Quds resistance fighters/ archive photo

In a statement, faxed to press, the Saraya aL-Quds said that Sameh aL-Aydi, was killed while he and other comrades were firing rocket-propelled grenades at an Israeli military outpost in southeastern Gaza.

The Israeli army killed yesterday six Palestinian resistance fighters, three of them belonged to the Saraya aL-Quds brigades, when Israeli tanks rolled into southern Gaza Strip.

The Israeli military warned last week of what Israel calls ' attrition operations' against the Gaza Strip, in a ' bid to stop homemade shells fire from Gaza onto nearby Israeli towns'.

In September, Israel declared Gaza a 'hostile entity' and in October it imposed a series of apparently 'punitive measures', including an underway fuel supplies reduction as well as further tightening of a six-month-old siege.

Palestinian media sources suggest that since late November, the Israeli army has killed 40 Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories; the majority of the dead were residents of Gaza.

gaza strip | israeli attacks | news report rami at imemc dot org