[ 11/01/2011 - 03:38 PM ]
KHAN YOUNIS, (PIC)-- A Palestinian fighter affiliated with the Quds Brigades, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad movement, was killed and four civilians were injured in an Israeli air raid on Khan Younis, south of the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, medical sources reported.
The PIC reporter said that the aerial raid killed Jamil Al-Najjar, 25, on the spot and wounded four citizens east of Khan Younis city.
The armed wing, for its part, described the assassination crime as "cowardly", adding that it reserves the right to retaliate at the opportune time and place.
The Israeli raid falls in line with recent military escalation against the Gaza Strip that killed a Palestinian farmer on Monday while tending to his land north of Beit Hanun, north of the Strip.
Three other raids at dawn Monday wounded a Palestinian citizen in Khan Younis and caused big damage in Gaza and Khan Younis.
Earlier on Tuesday, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened heavy machinegun fire at Palestinian houses and cultivated land lots east of Khan Younis.
Witnesses told the PIC reporter that the IOF soldiers opened intensive fire as Apache choppers were hovering over Khan Younis.
Mizan: IOF killed 14 Palestinians, wounded 38 last monthGAZA, (PIC)-- The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) killed 14 Palestinians including two children and wounded 38 citizens including eight children during the past month of December, the Mizan center for human rights said in a report.
The report published on Monday said that the IOF troops launched five major incursions into the Gaza Strip during which dozens of cultivated dunums were bulldozed.
It highlighted the IOF navy forces escalated targeting of Palestinian fishermen in the final month of 2010, wounding one and arresting six while fishing.
Mizan said that the IOF opened artillery and rocket fire at the Strip 17 times during December inflicting casualties and material damage to civilian property.
The report said that the military escalation against Gaza reflected the world community's failure to assume its legal and ethical duties towards citizens in the occupied Palestinian land in general and in Gaza Strip in particular.
Mizan championed an urgent international intervention to bridle the IOF violation of the international law and human rights in addition to bringing Israeli war criminals and those who ordered those crimes to justice.
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