Blast Kills "Israeli" Soldier Near Gaza
Source: Alalam.ir, 6-3-2008
GAZA CITY--One "Israeli" occupying soldier was killed and another wounded on Thursday after explosions rocked a military post near the Gaza Strip, Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television said.
Palestinian witnesses reported seeing a Zionist army jeep in flames after a series of blasts went off around the army post near the Kissufim crossing between Gaza and "Israel" in the center of the territory.
The "Israeli" occupying army had no immediate comment on the reports.
In June 2006, Gaza activists tunneled out of the territory and attacked an "Israeli" army post in southern Gaza, seizing a soldier and killing two others in a raid that also left two gunmen dead.
The deadly raid sparked a massive five-month "Israeli" offensive in Gaza that left several hundred Palestinians martyred and ended after Hamas and "Israel" agreed to a truce in late November 2006.
Hamas has run Gaza since June 2007, when it routed forces loyal to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in a week of clashes.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are living through their worst humanitarian crisis since the 1967 war because of the severe restrictions imposed by the "Israeli" occupying regime, human rights groups say.
The situation in Gaza is "man-made, completely avoidable, and with the necessary political will can be reversed", say the groups, which include Oxfam, Amnesty International and Save the Children.
The NGOs said that Gaza's 1.5 million Palestinians had seen a "long-term pattern of deterioration" stemming from decades of occupation and from sanctions on Hamas.
But "the severity of the humanitarian situation has increased exponentially due to "Israeli" imposition of the blockade on the Gaza Strip," they said.
GAZA CITY--One "Israeli" occupying soldier was killed and another wounded on Thursday after explosions rocked a military post near the Gaza Strip, Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television said.
Palestinian witnesses reported seeing a Zionist army jeep in flames after a series of blasts went off around the army post near the Kissufim crossing between Gaza and "Israel" in the center of the territory.
The "Israeli" occupying army had no immediate comment on the reports.
In June 2006, Gaza activists tunneled out of the territory and attacked an "Israeli" army post in southern Gaza, seizing a soldier and killing two others in a raid that also left two gunmen dead.
The deadly raid sparked a massive five-month "Israeli" offensive in Gaza that left several hundred Palestinians martyred and ended after Hamas and "Israel" agreed to a truce in late November 2006.
Hamas has run Gaza since June 2007, when it routed forces loyal to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in a week of clashes.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are living through their worst humanitarian crisis since the 1967 war because of the severe restrictions imposed by the "Israeli" occupying regime, human rights groups say.
The situation in Gaza is "man-made, completely avoidable, and with the necessary political will can be reversed", say the groups, which include Oxfam, Amnesty International and Save the Children.
The NGOs said that Gaza's 1.5 million Palestinians had seen a "long-term pattern of deterioration" stemming from decades of occupation and from sanctions on Hamas.
But "the severity of the humanitarian situation has increased exponentially due to "Israeli" imposition of the blockade on the Gaza Strip," they said.
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