Friday, January 04, 2008

IOF kill 11 Palestinians in 24 hours, including five members of the same family

Palestinian Information Center, January 4, 2008

GAZA, (PIC)-- Two Qassam Brigades fighters were killed Friday morning while confronting invading IOF troops in the northern Gaza Strip bringing the number of those killed by the IOF in the past 24 hours to 11 including 5 Qassam fighters and 5 members of the same family.

The Qassam Brigades mourned, in a statement issued on Friday, two of its fighters in Beit Hanoun. The two were killed in confrontations with IOF troops who invaded Mazra't al-Basha to the east of Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.

"Despite the siege and the open war against the our resistance and our thriving Brigades, despite the siege and the conspiracy against our cause and our people, the Qassam Brigades remains in the battlefield carving the rocks and fighting an asymmetrical battle to protect the holiness of this land and defend the honour of the Ummah," the statement read.

The IOF committed a massacre on Thursday morning against the Fayyad family during an incursion to the east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip and when the invading IOF troops shelled the house of Hamdan Fayyad killing five members of the family.

Local sources told PIC that the victims of this massacre were: Karimah Fayyad (55 years), her two sons Ahmad and Sami aged 32 and 23 respectively, her daughter, aged 22 and her nephew aged 17. Other family members were wounded in the shelling.

Two resistance fighters were also killed while confronting the invading IOF troops in Khan Younis.

On Thursday evening one Qassam fighter was killed in an Israeli air raid to the east of Shejaeyyah neighbourhood in Gaza City and three civilians including two children were wounded.

Another civilian was killed and three policemen were wounded on Thursday in an Israeli air raid on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

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