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  • March 6, 2006

    The IDF fires missiles at a car driving in Gaza’s Bureij r.c., assassinating Islamic Jihad mbrs. Ashraf Shalluf and Munir Sukkar, also killing 3 bystanders (ages 11, 14, and 17), wounding 12...

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The IDF fires missiles at a car driving in Gaza’s Bureij r.c., assassinating Islamic Jihad mbrs. Ashraf Shalluf and Munir Sukkar, also killing 3 bystanders (ages 11, 14, and 17), wounding 12 bystanders; conducts arrest raids, house searches nr. Bethlehem, Hebron, Jenin, Nablus, Qalqilya, Tulkarm and in ‘Aqqaba, nearby Tubas (firing on residential areas and stone-throwing Palestinians who confront the troops), Nablus (firing on stone-throwing youths, wounding 1 bystander). In central Gaza, 2 Palestinians are killed when explosives they are handling detonate prematurely. Outside the Gaza PC building, where the new PC is holding its 1st session, 15 Fatah gunmen fire in the air, demanding Fatah PC mbrs. not take part in a Hamas-led government, threatening to kill any Fatah PC mbr. who agrees to join. (AFP, AP 3/6; HA, IMEMC, MM, NYT, PCHR, WP, WT 3/7; PCHR 3/9)