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JERUSALEM, September 26 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - In a
retaliatory attack for an Israeli Gaza rocket attack that killed at
least three Palestinians and injured 40, including 15 children, and
the death of tear gas inhalation in the West Bank town of Al-Khalil
(Hebron) of a Palestinian baby girl, Palestinian resistance fighters
opened fire at a car in the southern West Bank, injuring four Israelis
late Thursday, September 26, Jewish settler sources said.
The
incident occurred near the Beit Hagai illegal settlement southwest of
Al-Khalil, the sources said, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.
The
Israelis, members of the same family who included an infant, were
lightly wounded and were being treated at the scene. The baby was
taken to a Jerusalem hospital.
The
attack took place at an intersection south of Al-Khalil.
Earlier
Thursday, at least two Palestinians were killed and 40 injured,
including 15 children, when an Israeli helicopter fired a rocket at
their car in the north of Gaza City in a failed attempt to assassinate
Mohammed Deif, a leader in the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, the
military arm of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas.
An
Apache combat helicopter fired at least one rocket at the taxi they
were traveling in the Sheikh Radwan district in the north of the city,
Palestinian medical and security officials told AFP.
At
least three Palestinians were killed and at least 40 injured in the
blast, more than 15 of them children, officials said. The strike
occurred near a children’s hospital in an area where there are also
several schools, they said.
The
strike happened at the time when schools were letting out.
One
of the bodies was blown to pieces by the blast, an AFP correspondent
at Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital said.
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At
least 15 Palestinian children were injured by Israeli helicopter
gunships that fired missiles at Gaza Thursday, killing three
others
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The
rocket attack occurred close to the house of a member from the Al-Aqsa
Martyrs Brigades killed earlier Thursday, whom Israel claimed was
trying to infiltrate an illegal Jewish settlement just north of Gaza
City.
Also
Thursday, a 14-month-old Palestinian baby girl choked to death on tear
gas fired by Israeli occupation forces who also killed two
Palestinians in Gaza and demolished three homes.
The
baby, Gharam al-Tel, died from tear gas inhalation as violent scuffles
erupted between Palestinian residents and Israeli forces trying to
impose a lockdown on the Palestinian part of Al-Khalil, reoccupied
like most of the West Bank since June.
On
July 22, 2002, Israel used a U.S.-made F-16 warplane to drop a one-ton
bomb on a densely populated area in Gaza, killing Salah Shehada, the
military chief of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas, and 17
civilians, including eleven children.
Although
the incident was internationally condemned, the Israeli army’s
prosecutor rejected Wednesday, September 25, a request by an Israeli
pacifist group to try the air force chief who ordered the bombing.
