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Israelis kill five Palestinians on Tuesday May 20

Uruknet, May 21, 2008


Five Palestinians, including one child, killed in Gaza on Tuesday

Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

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A wounded Palestinian girl is rushed into hospital after an Israeli air strike in Gaza May 20, 2008. REUTERS/Ismail Zaydah (GAZA)


Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip reported on Tuesday at night that five Palestinians, including one child, were killed in separate Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that a child and a farmer were killed and two other Palestinian were wounded when the army shelled several areas, including houses and farmlands, on the northern and central parts of the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian news agency, WAFA, identified the child as Majd Ziad Abu Okal, 13, from Beit Lahia. The killed famer was identified as Hamdi Al Dahdouh, 32, from Juhr Al Deek in the central Gaza Strip; his body was severely mutilated.

Also on Wednesday, one fighter was killed and five Palestinian were wounded in an Israeli shelling that targeted a group of fighters in Al Zeitoun neighborhood, south of Gaza City.

The fighter was identified as Mohammad Khamees Odah, 28, member of the AL Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas movement. Five residents were injured in the shelling. On Tuesday evening, resident Zayid Abu Wadi, 23, died of wounds sustained during the shelling which at the time led to the death of Odah, medical sources reported.

A fifth resident, identified as Ali Al Dahdouh, 32, was killed when the army shot him in his head as he was driving his car in Juhr Al Deek area.

The Israeli army claimed that the shelling targeted fighters who fired homemade shells into adjacent Israeli areas.

Also on Tuesday, the army invaded Al Maghazi refugee camp, in the central Gaza Strip, and bulldozed farmlands in the area.

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