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| something | Gaza In Shock After Deadly Israeli Attack By Peter Wilson The Telegrah - UK 1-26-3 JAMAL Ed Keter says he did not even see the Israeli Army helicopter that blasted him and a large group of young men in a Gaza City street early yesterday morning. "We were too busy looking at the tanks and I knew there were helicopters but I didn't see anything until it got us," he said as he limped out of Gaza's Shefa Hospital later that morning. Witnesses say the helicopter gunships that went into Gaza City in support of about 50 tanks fired into crowds if anyone in the crowd fired on them, but the 22-year-old insists nobody near him was armed. As he spoke, his face was swollen and riddled with about 20 small wounds, he was still dazed and a chunk of flesh was missing from his right calf. He had joined the crowds when he first heard the tanks rolling down his street near Gaza's largest market. When he got to his feet after the blast three people near him were dead and 15 were injured. Fourteen-year-old Samed Atta Al Sharif lay nearby with shrapnel in his belly and his intestines hanging outside his body. Jomaa Helmi Saqqa, a doctor at the hospital, said the boy had been successfully operated on and would recover. "Two of the martyrs were brought in with their heads missing ... they were shot from above from a helicopter," he said. Eleven of the 12 dead were aged between 20 and 25 but the last victim had not been identified. When I saw his body in a back room the identification problem was obvious. The middle of his face was missing as something had blown out a neat circle from the bottom of his nose to the top of his eyebrows leaving a 5cm deep hole where his nose and eyes should have been. The doctor was sure there would soon be a 13th death as another man had a brain injury that the hospital was not equipped to treat. In the surrounding streets, crowds stood quietly looking at the debris of flattened shops and factories, homes pocked with heavy machine gun bullet holes and four buckled bridges that have left a nearby town cut off from road transport. One large building had lost an entire wall, exposing a row of neat second-floor bedrooms with a middle-aged woman standing bewildered in one looking out at the city through the hole where her wall used to be. Mahmoud Madi, 42, sat shaking his head outside his family's bus company. Israeli tanks and bulldozers had crushed three of the company's best buses together to form a barricade against Palestinian gunfire. "We heard them doing it but what could we do? The children and my wife were on the ground screaming so I stayed inside. "These were the best buses in Gaza. Who's going to pay for them?" In a city where donkeys still pull carts and jostle with beaten-up cars, they were indeed fancy buses. An Israeli army spokesman insisted the incursion was carefully limited to taking out factories that might be used to produce rockets for use against Israel. That does not quite explain what happened at the Ahli Arab Hospital run by the Anglican Church in central Gaza city. One missile scored a direct hit on the hospital's church, which sits in the middle of what is clearly a hospital. The missile destroyed the church roof, leaving a large crater in front of the altar. http://www.dailytelegraph.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,5895284%255E401,00.html - Mon, 27 Jan 2003 2:50am | ||
| Anonymous | got this from reuters: Israeli Forces Kill 12 Palestinians in Gaza Raid Sun January 26, 2003 05:47 PM ET By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Israel killed 12 Palestinians on Sunday in the deepest thrust into Gaza City in two years, underscoring Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's tough security policy days before an election. Israeli soldiers later shot dead a 7-year-old Palestinian boy who was playing in Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics and relatives said. The Israeli army said it knew of no such incident. Dozens of armored vehicles backed by assault helicopters struck from three directions at a known Gaza City stronghold of the militant Islamic group Hamas, which has carried out dozens of suicide attacks. It was the deepest incursion into the Palestinian-ruled city in two years of fighting since a Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation broke out. The death toll was the highest in a single day since 16 people were killed in an October raid. Palestinian sources said the dead, apart from the boy, were aged 18 to 25 and included seven gunmen and a policeman. A 50-year-old man was also killed by a tank shell that hit his house in the Rafah camp, near the border with Egypt, Palestinian medics said. The army denied firing tank shells in the area. About 40,000 Palestinians marched at a mass funeral for the 12 men. Some mourners fired in the air. Others vowed revenge. "We will shed Jewish blood in Jaffa and Tel Aviv," Abdel-Aziz al-Rantisi, a top Hamas official, told reporters. PALESTINIAN TRAVEL BAN Ahead of Tuesday's general election, Israel's army banned all Palestinian travel in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, home to 3.5 million Palestinians, for 62 hours ending Wednesday. A 74-year-old former general, Sharon is expected to lead his rightist Likud party to victory in the election, campaigning on a platform of being tough on Palestinian militants. But in remarks foreshadowing U.S. pressure on Sharon to make concessions for peace, Secretary of State Colin Powell said in Switzerland that Israel must offer Palestinians more than a "phoney state diced into a thousand different pieces." Israel has built Jewish settlements across the occupied West Bank, linked to Israel by roads which separate Palestinian areas from each other and restrict Palestinian freedom of movement. Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Ron Pros-Or responded cautiously, saying only that Powell's statement was "very important" and Israel "would take it into consideration." Speaking in Davos, Powell urged Israel to do more to "deal with the humanitarian conditions of the Palestinian people," adding "you have to understand that a Palestinian state must be a real state." In a speech designed to muster support for a tough line against Iraq, Powell said a viable Palestinian state was possible in 2005 so long as Palestinians established a new leadership and Israel built trust. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan issued a statement in New York deploring "the ominous escalation of violence." He urged both sides to act with restraint and break the cycle of violence. ARAB CONDEMNATION The 22-member Arab League condemned Israel for the Gaza City raid and Palestinian cabinet minister Saeb Erekat accused Sharon of being determined to end the Israeli election campaign "with more Palestinian blood." An Israeli army spokesman said the incursion, which sparked fierce gun battles with Palestinians, into Gaza City's Zaitoun neighborhood was meant to strike at weapons factories after an Israeli town near Gaza came under repeated rocket attack. But Israel's raid also had an emotional and economic impact. Soldiers threw grenades into a central clothing market, setting some 80 stands on fire. Merchants there said losses were significant. The stands had been newly stocked ahead of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha in two weeks. "The earth was shaking as tanks rolled into the neighborhood. Helicopters roared overhead. It was a night of war," resident Mohammad al-Yazji told Reuters. He said the explosions scared his children and they cried. Israel struck just as the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz quoted senior army officials as saying the peak of violence had passed and as Palestinian factions met in Cairo to consider an Egyptian proposal for a one-year unilateral cease-fire. Some Palestinian officials involved in the talks have said attacks could end if Israel guaranteed an end to its premeditated killing of militants. At least 1,802 Palestinians and 698 Israelis have been killed since the revolt began in September 2000. - Mon, 27 Jan 2003 3:00am | ||
| Anonymous | interesting.violent world all round I'd say - Mon, 27 Jan 2003 1:32pm | ||
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