The IDF shells Jabaliya r.c., killing 1 Palestinian bystander; shells Palestinians leaving a Bayt Lahiya mosque after evening prayers, killing 2 Palestinian teenagers, wounding 2; fires on residential areas of Bayt Hanun, killing a 10-yr.-old Palestinian girl outside her home; demolishes a Palestinian home in Bayt Hanun, sparking an exchange of gunfire that leaves 2 AMB mbrs. dead. In central Gaza, the IDF fatally shoots a mentally disabled Palestinian who approaches a closed military zone nr. the Kissufim crossing; bulldozes 3 Palestinian homes, 5 d. in Dayr al-Balah. In s. Gaza, the IDF shells residential areas of Rafah; Palestinian gunmen fire on a greenhouse in a Jewish settlement, killing a Palestinian laborer. (HA, MEZ 10/8; AFP, VOI 10/8, VOI, VOP 10/9 in WNC 10/12; NYT, WP 10/9; PCHR 10/14)
Friday, October 8, 2004