"Israeli" troops go on a killing rampage, 6 Palestinians killed in Gaza alone

Source: The News, 27-7-2007
GAZA CITY/RAMALLAH: Six Palestinians were killed by "Israeli" forces on Thursday, as ground troops raided the southern Gaza Strip and attack aircraft launched a series of sorties targeting freedom fighters.
It was the deadliest day of "Israeli"-Palestinian violence in three weeks and cut against recent diplomacy designed to revitalise defunct peace talks and bolster Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas since Hamas seized control of Gaza.
An Islamic Jihad commander and two activists from the group were killed when an "Israeli" aircraft fired two missiles into a car in Gaza City.
Witnesses said the rockets slammed into the vehicle at an intersection in the southern part of the city and that one bystander was wounded by shrapnel.
Islamic Jihad announced the dead as Omar al-Khatib, 39, one of the main commanders of its military wing who escaped assassination in an "Israeli" raid on Tuesday, and two of his assistants, Khalil al-Doiueifi and Ahmed al-Balaawi.
The group has claimed responsibility for the vast majority of recent deadly attacks in "Israel" and regularly claims to have fired rockets into the Jewish (Zionist) state from the Gaza Strip. An "Israeli" military spokesman claimed the air strike had targeted "members of Islamic Jihad who were involved in ‘terrorist activities against `Israel`."
Earlier on Thursday, "Israeli" tanks and armoured vehicles launched an incursion into the southern Gaza Strip, sparking clashes with Palestinians as bulldozers ripped up farm land in the Rafah area, witnesses said.
Sharif Breissi, 33, from the military wing of the movement Hamas, which has controlled Gaza for more than a month, was fatally wounded by tank fire around Rafah, medical sources and witnesses said.
Three others were wounded in another "Israeli" air strike was called in during the incursion and at least three Palestinians were arrested, medics and witnesses said.
A third "Israeli" air raid against the densely populated and impoverished Gaza Strip wounded two Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip targeting launchers used to fire rockets into "Israel", medical and army sources said.
A sixth Palestinian - 20-year-old Jihad al-Shaer-was shot dead by "Israeli" forces in the occupied West Bank village of Taqoa, near Bethlehem, after attacking a soldier at a checkpoint, medics and witnesses said.