Four Killed In Less 24 Hours in the Strip by Israeli Fire
Posted on 2007-10-27
Four Killed In Less 24 Hours in the Strip by Israeli Fire |
GAZA, Palestine, October 25, 2007 (IPC+ Agencies) - - Two members of the al-Qassam brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, were killed on Thursday morning by gunfire from Israeli Special Forces in the Abasan area of eastern Khan Younis, medical sources in southern Gaza reported.
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The two men were members of the al- Qassam brigades, a according to Hamas's leaflet.
The invasion was supported by hovering of helicopters and scores of Israeli military vehicles.
Earlier Palestinian medical sources announced the deaths of two Palestinian children and injuries to two others after Israeli artillery shelled Jabalyia town, north Gaza Strip.
Medical sources in Gaza said that the bodies of the killed children Abdo Abu Askar,15 and Mohammad Kallab,14 whose bodies, mutilated by the shelling, were taken to hospital.
A Patient in a Serious Condition Dies Due to Restrictions at Erez Crossing
Meanwhile, a Palestinian man who was on his way to receive medical treatment inside Israel was left on the ground for over an hour by Israeli border police, until he finally passed away.
Nemer Mohammed Salim Shuhaiber, 77, from al-Sabra neighborhood in Gaza City, was admitted into the Intensive Care Unit at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on 21 October 2007 as he was suffering from an acute heart attack. Since he was in a serious condition, the Palestinian Ministry of Health decided to transfer him to an Israeli hospital. On Monday, 22 October 2007, the liaison officer at the Ministry was able to coordinate with Israeli occupation authorities his passage through Erez crossing.
Nahidh, 42, who accompanied his father to Erez crossing, said that the ambulance driver was permitted by Israeli occupation authorities to pass through the crossing. When the ambulance moved forward, Israeli occupation troops fired at it, so the driver was forced to drive back and the patient was not able to travel to the Israeli hospital on that day although he was in a serious condition.
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights has issued a strong condemnation of the de facto murder of the patient by Israeli authorities. The Center called for the international community, particularly the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949, World Health Organization and the ICRC to exert pressure on Israeli occupation authorities to allow access of patients from the Gaza Strip to hospitals in the West Bank and Israel through Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossing.
