A Palestinian was killed and another injured on Monday evening when Israeli tanks opened fire at three resistance posts in Beit Lahia town in the northern Gaza Strip.
Ashraf al-Qedra spokesman for Gaza’s Ministry of Health said that Mohammed al-Radei 25 was killed while another young man suffered different wounds in the attack.
A security source told the PIC reporter that Israeli tanks stationed behind the border fence in northern Gaza fired several shells at three posts belonging to the Qassam Brigades the armed wing of Hamas movement.
The Qassam Brigades in a statement mourned Mohammed al-Radei and said that he is one of their fighters stressing that the martyr’s blood will not go in vain.
In a related context the Hebrew website “0404” reported that the Israeli army on Monday arrested two of three Palestinians who attempted to sneak into the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories from northern Gaza.
The website claimed that a shooting attack was launched against Israeli forces as the third Palestinian was withdrawing from the area adding that the Israeli tanks at the border responded by opening fire at nearby Hamas posts.
Three Islamic Jihad fighters were killed on Sunday in a similar artillery attack in southern Gaza.
With the death of al-Radei the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza by the Israeli occupation forces since the start of the Great Return March protests has increased to 127. So far about 13000 Palestinians have been injured over 300 of whom are in critical conditions.
