Palestinian Child Martyred in Gaza

Source: alalam.ir, 11-06-2008
GAZA CITY-A 9-year-old Palestinian girl was martyred early on Wednesday by a shell fired from an 'Israeli' tank in the south of the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian medic said.
Hadeel al-Smeiri died and two members of her family were wounded east of Khan Yunis when a tank shell hit a house, the medic and witnesses said.
An 'Israeli' military spokesman in Tel Aviv claimed a ground force had attacked a Palestinian rocket-launching squad in the central Gaza Strip which was attempting to fire rockets from a built-up area.

Later on Wednesday the occupying regime's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will convene a meeting of the security cabinet to weigh a full-scale incursion into the Gaza Strip.
On Tuesday, three members of the Hamas' armed wing, the Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, were martyred and five others were wounded by 'Israeli' fire in the eastern Gaza Strip.
For months, Egypt has been trying to broker a truce between the resistance movement and the 'Israeli' regime.

But the cease-fire efforts have faltered over the occupying regime's blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said on Tuesday that the resistance is ready to cooperate with Egyptian efforts at finding a truce, if 'Israelis' "stopped their violence and terrorism and stopped their attacking on Gaza and West Bank and lift the siege and embargo."
Although it has long threatened to launch a large-scale incursion into Gaza, the 'Israeli' regime has so far stopped short of that in its military incursions.

However, several hundred Palestinians have been martyred in Gaza this year alone.
A broad military aggression carries the risk of high 'Israeli' military and Palestinian civilian casualties, and that has been the major deterrent.
Hanging over new 'Israeli' regime's discussions will be a new corruption probe against Olmert, which threatens to topple him and possibly his regime.
Both foreign minister Tzipi Livni and war minister Ehud Barak are working to unseat Olmert, but a Gaza operation could put any political maneuvers on hold.

This week, Hamas will mark the first anniversary of its takeover of the coastal strip from Fatah security forces affiliated with Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas.
While battling resistance fighters in Gaza, the occupying regime has been trying to pursue talks with Abbas.
The fence mending talks resumed at a US-sponsored conference in November, after seven years of confrontations.