GAZA (PIC)– Israeli tanks stationing at the borders of Gaza Strip have killed a Palestinian citizen in Beit Lahia city north of Gaza Strip at dawn Saturday raising number of Palestinian citizens killed at the hands of the IOF troops to four in less than 12 hours Palestinian security and hospital sources affirmed.
The sources also added that the Palestinian who wasn’t identified was shot dead as he was approaching the separation fence that isolates Gaza Strip from the rest of occupied Palestine.
Many Palestinian citizens are trying to work in the 1948-occupied lands in search for their families’ sustenance due to the poor economic conditions in the PA-run lands due to the wing-clipping economic sanctions that were imposed on the Palestinian people for expressing their democratic will and electing Hamas to rule them.
Local sources and eyewitnesses also revealed that an Israeli F-16 fighter plane an Apache chopper and a reconnaissance plane were seen hovering in the sky of Beit Lahia and the nearby cities.
On Friday evening three Palestinian resistance fighters from the Islamic Jihad were killed with IOF troops’ bullets as large numbers of IOF special units surrounded and engaged them in fierce armed clashes.
Hamas Movement condemned the killing of the three Islamic Jihad fighters in Jenin city and urged all Palestinian resistance factions to retaliate to the IOF crimes affirming that the killing of the three fighters proves that the IOF were persistent in killing the Palestinian people and never really adhered to the calm.
According to Palestinian records 22 Palestinian citizens were killed with IOF troops’ bullets last April in spite of the truce that the Palestinian resistance factions gave at the request of PA chief Mahmoud Abbas; but it was never reciprocated by the IOF troops.
The death toll in Palestinian people lines reached 60 since the start of the year in addition to dozens wounded and hundreds arrested and thrown into Israeli jails.
Dr. Muaweyya Abu Hasanien the director of the emergency department in the PA ministry of health affirmed that another Palestinian citizen was seriously wounded when IOF tanks advanced into the Atatra area north of the Strip and shot him.
He added that the IOF troops denied Palestinian ambulance workers access to the victim and took him along with a second Palestinian citizen to an unidentified location.
In the West Bank Israeli occupation soldiers arrested three Palestinian brothers in the West Bank town of Beit Fajjar south of Bethlehem after storming and ransacking their home.
In Salfit city north of the West Bank a number of Palestinian citizens including minors were seized by the IOF troops for long hours on allegations they were hurling stones and empty bottles at IOF vehicles and soldiers.
According to eyewitnesses the youths were held near a bridge in the city and remained under the sun for long hours before the soldiers took them to an unidentified place as their fate remains unknown.
Palestinian minor Raed Ziad Al-Adel 17 of Aoula town west of Al-Khalil city was also apprehended by the IOF troops that raided his home and wreaked havoc on it before leading him to an unknown location.
Palestinian security and hospital records affirmed that the IOF troops had unleashed 28 incursions into different parts of the West Bank and arrested around 56 Palestinian citizens including six children and a woman among other citizens in the period from April 26 till May 2.
The number of arrested Palestinians according to the records of the Palestinian human right center has reached 1063 since the start of the year.
