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GAZA
CITY, September 26 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - At least two
Palestinians were killed and 40 injured, including 15 children,
Thursday, September 26, 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 Agence France-Presse
(AFP).
At
least 40 people were injured in the blast, more than 15 of them
children, officials said. The strike occurred near a children’s
hospital in an areas 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.
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 a Jewish settlement just north of Gaza City.
The
two confirmed deaths brought to 2,536 the number of people since the
start of the Palestinian uprising against the Palestinian occupation,
which broke out nearly two years ago, including 1,871 Palestinians and
614 Israelis.
Seven
people, including a Palestinian baby girl and an Israeli army officer,
had been killed in incidents across the Palestinian territories by
mid-afternoon Thursday.
On
July 22, 2002, Israel raided a densely populated area in Gaza, as
Israeli planes dropped a one-ton bomb on a building 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 a pacifist
group to investigate the air force chief who ordered a bombing in a
densely populated area in Gaza, that killed at least 17 people,
including eleven children.
