GAZA, Palestine, December 23, 2004
The Israeli occupation forces escalted its offensive against the Palestinian people, wounding critically two Palestinians including a girl in two separate attacks against Gaza Strip.
Palestinian medical sources of Al Aqsa Martyr hospital reported that Mahmoud mossa,27, was critically wounded by the shrapnel of a cannon fired by an Israeli occupation tank stationed at the vicinity of the illegal Israeli settlement of Kfar Daroum , east of Deir Al Balah town, heart Gaza Strip. .
Separately, In al Qarara town , north of khan Younis a nine- year-old Dyla Al Abadal was moderately wounded during the heavily and random shootings by the Israeli troops towards the inhabitants' houses , Palestinian medical sources confirmed.
Meanwhile, a column of Israeli occupation tanks invaded the Bedouin village, north of Gaza Strip and stormed the premises of rural council of the village and besieged the primary school of Hamza Bin Abed A Mutaleb, disallowing the schoolboy to attend their classes.
Palestinian security sources mentioned that an Israeli occupation column of 20 tanks stormed into the village and started to bulldoze the arable land in addition to launching a blitz against the inhabitants' houses. No casualties were reported.
Three Palestinians were wounded today morning in Al Zytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza city.
Mu'wia Abu Hussanien, director of the emergency award stated that Hatem Mossa Abu Daff, 20, was wounded with a live bullet in the belly when an Israeli undercover unit penetrated into the neighborhood and opened fir everywhere.
Local sources said that the Israeli troops took up positions inside a three storey houses and denied the medical crews and ambulances to reach the area, where two Palestinians were wounded.
In Nablus, the Israeli occupation forces arrested at dawn Zaid Fathi Rasheed , deputy of Fateh secretary in Kafer Qelel village, north of the city after searching thoroughly his house. He was taken to unknown destination.