Saturday 14 November 2009

Israeli troops kill Palestinian boy, kidnap four east of Gaza


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[ 14/11/2009 - 08:16 AM ]

GAZA, (PIC)-- One Palestinian boy was killed, another was taken to hospital and three others were kidnapped before noon on Friday during an Israeli military incursion into Johr Al-Deek area, east of Gaza Strip.

Palestinian medical sources confirmed to the Palestinian information center (PIC) that the victim was a 17-year-old boy called Mustafa Wadi from Bureij refugee camp and was transferred to Al-Aqsa hospital after he was shot dead by Israeli troops.

Local sources told the PIC that 25 Israeli soldiers infiltrated into the garbage dump in Johr Al-Deek area and opened fire at a group of children and boys who were hunting birds, which led to the death of Wadi and the kidnapping of four of his friends, one of them were injured and transferred to the Israeli Barazillai hospital.

Earlier, the Hebrew radio alleged that an Israeli military force advanced east of Gaza and opened fire after spotting resistance fighters who were trying to plant an explosive device near Nahal Oz post.

For its part, the Palestinian ministry of prisoners’ affairs held the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) fully responsible for the lives of the four young men who were kidnapped east of Gaza.

Information director of the ministry Riyadh Al-Ashqar appealed to the Red Cross to urgently intervene to disclose the fate of the young men especially the wounded ones and ensure they receive appropriate medical treatment.

Ashqar said that the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) intensified the kidnapping of civilians from Gaza after opening fire at them at the pretext they approached the border fence, noting that this escalation points to Israeli malicious intents to displace Palestinian citizens from their lands near the eastern borderline of Gaza.

In another context, the ministry of prisoners’ affairs received Thursday in its headquarters in Gaza city the delegation of Miles of Smiles aid convoy in the presence of families of prisoners.

Director-general of the ministry Baha Madhoun along with the families briefed the delegation on the suffering of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jail and talked about the ways to activate their humanitarian issue internationally.

Among the speakers was an eight-year-old girl called Jumana, the daughter of prisoner Ala’a Abu Juzar, who made some of the attendees cry when she talked about her life after the detention of her father and the death of her mother especially when she wakes up every morning.

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