A wounded child arrives at the hospital in Rafah refugee camp after Israeli troops shot dead two teenagers and wounded 18

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, October 10 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – A fresh resistance attack took place Thursday, October 10, when a Palestinian blew himself up in Tel Aviv, killing one and injuring 29 hours after an Israeli tank shot dead 2 Palestinians, including a 12-year-old child when Israeli tanks, backed up by helicopters, rolled into the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.

A Palestinian killed an Israeli woman and wounded 29 others when he blew himself up after passengers threw him off a bus near Tel Aviv Thursday, police said.

The unidentified woman was fatally injured after the bomber slipped while trying to board a bus and was thrown out by passengers who saw the explosive belt strapped to his body, police said.

David Krauss, Tel Aviv deputy police chief, told public radio that “the terrorist boarded a number 87 bus, but the driver and passengers thought him suspicious and forcibly pushed him off the vehicle, Agence France-Presse (AFP) said.

“The driver closed the bus doors, and that’s when the terrorist, who was on the pavement, triggered the explosives he was wearing in a belt.”

The blast happened under a bridge by a bus stop used mainly by students of Bar Ilan university, east of Tel Aviv centre, the radio said.

It was the first resistance attack in Israel since a Palestinian killed six people as well as himself and wounded more than 60 in central Tel Aviv on September 19.

The Islamic resistance movement Hamas, which carried out the last bombing in Tel Aviv, had promised more attacks after Israeli forces killed 16 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis on Monday, October 7.

Meanwhile, in Gaza, two Palestinians, including a 12-year-old Palestinian child were shot dead by Israeli tank fire early Thursday when Israeli occupation forces raided the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, hospital sources said.

The boy, Taher el-Hout, was shot in the head. Four other Palestinians, including an infant, were injured, AFP said.

The second victim was identified as Ehab Almogyar, who was shot in the chest by machine-gun fire from a tanks, they said. He was killed shortly after the 12-year-old Taher el-Hout died from a machine-gun bullet to the head.

Israeli forces reportedly also destroyed three houses during the incursion but no one was injured in that attack, witnesses said.

Israeli tanks, backed up by helicopters, rolled into the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip early Thursday, Palestinian security forces and witnesses said.

According to witnesses, more than 20 tanks, with three helicopters, penetrated the camp on the edge of Rafah town near the Egyptian border.

Also, the Israeli army on Thursday abducted 55 Palestinians in villages round the West Bank town of Ramallah.

Several units, including tanks and helicopters, took part in the sweep which lasted several hours on Thursday morning, without meeting any resistance from the Palestinians, the sources said.

“The aim was to destroy the infrastructure of Hamas, to arrest those behind anti-Israeli attacks,” a military spokesman told army radio.

The army spokesman said troops also “arrested” another 16 Palestinians elsewhere in the West Bank, reoccupied and constantly scoured by the Israeli army since mid June.

Near Qalqilya on the boundary with Israel, the army claimed it discovered a 15 kilo (30 pound) bomb and destroyed it in a controlled explosion.

The International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) said this week its members were visiting more than 7,200 Palestinians in Israeli jails.

On Wednesday, two Palestinian teenagers were killed and 20 others injured by tank fire in Rafah.

Ahmad Radwane, 14, was killed Wednesday, October 9, by heavy machine-gun fire from Israeli tanks in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, in an incident that left another boy dead and 20 wounded, 10 of them critically, Palestinian medical sources said.

Earlier Mohammad Moussa Achwar, 15, was killed by tanks protecting bulldozers which were destroying Palestinian homes in the area.

The tanks, guarding bulldozers demolishing Palestinian houses along the Israeli-controlled border, opened fire for no apparent reason in the first instance, said AFP.

There was no previous firing when the shooting broke out from Israeli army positions on the illegal Gush Katif Jewish settlement bloc, just a few hundred yards (meters) from the edge of the Palestinian town and refugee camp.

Tuesday night, Israeli occupation forces gunned down a 12-year-old Palestinian girl in Rafah.

The murder of the three young boys brings the toll of Palestinians killed during the two-year intifada against Israeli occupation to 1,905.

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