In n. Gaza, the IDF conducts air strikes against 2 groups of armed Palestinians, killing 2 AMB mbrs., 1 Hamas mbr.; fires a missile at 2 Palestinian civilians distributing food aid in Jabaliya, killing them both. 2 Palestinian militants die of injuries received in Jabaliya on 10/9. The IDF also fatally shoots a 16-yr.-old Palestinian, seriously wounds another playing soccer in a field in Rafah (soldiers claim they thought they were planting a bomb); fires on residential areas of Khan Yunis; arrests Hamas’s Hebron military cmdr. Imad Qawasmi on charges of plotting the 8/31 Beersheba bus bombings; blows up a Palestinian home in Hebron. Palestinians fire 2 Qassam rockets at Sederot, causing no damage or injuries. The 10-yr.-old Palestinian girl wounded inside an UNRWA classroom on 10/12 dies. (MEZ 10/13; VOI, VOP 10/13 in WNC 10/15; HA, MM, NYT, PCHR,WP 10/14; VOI 10/14 in WNC 10/16; PCHR 10/21)
Wednesday, October 13, 2004