Palestinian doctor killed by tank shells
(Filed: 04/03/2002)


A PALESTINIAN doctor was killed when an Israeli tank opened fire on an ambulance in the northern West Bank refugee camp of Jenin.

In a separate incident, six Palestinians were killed when Israeli tanks fired shells at the Al-Amari refugee camp in Ramallah from an army base in a Jewish settlement nearby.

The wife and three children of an official of the Islamic organisation Hamas were killed when shells hit their car. A four-year-old girl and one other person were killed in a second car.

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