Eleven Palestinians killed by IDF fire since Thursday night
AMOS HAREL
Haaretz, 8 November 2003
Eleven Palestinians have been killed by Israel Defense Forces troops in separate incidents in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since Thursday night.
Another Palestinian, Ramzi Jarada, 22, died in a Ramallah hospital of wounds sustained in a shooting incident with IDF soldiers two weeks ago.
Four Palestinians were killed Saturday in two separate incidents in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Troops in Jenin shot dead Muhammed Salah, 17, who according to military sources was trying to climb on an armed personnel carrier during riots in the West Bank city.
The sources said the man was a member of the Hamas militant group. Sources in Jenin said that three other people - including two children aged seven and nine - were injured, one seriously, by IDF fire in the city.
A 14-year-old Palestinian was killed Saturday and three others were wounded, two seriously, by IDF troops after throwing stones at troops in the West Bank village of Burkin, close to Jenin.
Shadi Habub and Mahmoud Abu Shakal were killed by IDF fire north of Kibbutz Netzarim, in the Gaza Strip on Saturday. Soldiers suspected the Palestinians were armed. When their bodies were searched, soldiers found wire-cutting scissors.
An IDF soldier was lightly wounded Saturday during a patrol in the southern Gaza Strip, near the border between Israel and Egypt. He received medical treatment in the field.
Troops operating in Jenin on Friday arrested Amjad Abeidi, a senior Islamic Jihad militant who planned the suicide bombing at a Haifa restaurant last month in which 21 people were killed.
Abeidi is responsible for dispatching a number of suicide bombers to carry out attacks in Israel, including Hanadi Jaradat, who blew herself up in Haifa's Maxim restaurant.
The soldiers located the complex in which Abeidi was hiding, and searched it. Several hours later they found a weapons stockpile hidden under one of the houses. After the soldiers threw a grenade into the stockpile, Abeidi
handed himself over, lightly wounded.
As the soldiers left Jenin with Abeidi, Palestinian militants opened fire at them. The soldiers returned fire, killing Muhammed Abu Najami, 21.
Golani troops in Jenin also uncovered an explosives lab containing five barrels of explosive material and two explosive belts ready for use.
In a separate incident in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus, IDF troops killed Muhammed Hashash, 23, a member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.
Muhammed Najar, 19, and Nazmi Najar, 28 were shot dead by IDF troops as they approached a fence east of Khan Yunis, in the Gaza Strip on Friday.
Early in the day, IDF soldiers on the outskirts of the Al-Muazi refugee camp detected five Palestinians who were preparing explosive devices. The soldiers opened fire, saying that two individuals had been hit. Palestinian
sources reported one casualty, identified as Muamin Al-Marari, 20. An explosive device, weighing some 100 kilograms, was detonated near the soldiers during the incident. No soldiers were injured.
In the northern Gaza Strip, 10-year-old Muhammed Al-Kayid was shot dead as he approached the security fence. According to the IDF, a suspicious figure was seen near the fence, handling an electrical wire. Palestinian sources said that the boy was hunting birds, using a net and string.
On Thursday night, Faiz Salama, 44 was killed by IDF troops at the Anbata roadblock, adjacent to the West Bank city of Tul Karm. Salama was married and the father of six children.