Friday, April 19, 2002

Bloody Day in Gaza, West Bank


GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip: Israel reinvaded the West Bank city of Qalqiliya amid heavy firing and shelling in and around the city. One Palestinian was killed and six others wounded. Meanwhile, 8 Palestinians were killed elsewhere in the West Bank and Gaza.

Israeli forces have also raided the Naseiriah neighborhood near Nablus, killing one Palestinian. Many others were reportedly detained.

In Nablus, seventy Palestinians, including many children and women were buried in a mass grave during a 5-hour lift of the Israeli military curfew imposed on the city for days. The seventy were killed during the Israeli attack on the Old City of Nablus.

15 Israeli tanks attacked the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip early Friday and opened fire, killing at least three Palestinians in the Brazil neighborhood.

The Israeli military says it shot and killed another Palestinian late Thursday near the Jewish settlement of Dugit, in northern Gaza. The army says the man had been carrying a bomb.


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