Gaza Strip: Rafah Border Crisis Creating Death and Skin Illnesses

Published: July 30, 2007, 12:30 pm

Tags: palestine, gaza, border crossing, mohammed omer, death, genocide, israel, rafah

Dying Under the Summer Sky and International Eye: Gazans Continue to Be Targeted by IOF and Border ClosuresBy Mohammed Omer. The latest Israeli air strikes have targeted 4 Palestinians in two different strikes in less than 24 hours. In the first, on Salah Al Dein road, Israeli warplanes fired at and hit a car, leaving 3 Islamic Jihad members dead including a senior leader of the movement, Omer Al Khatib. A second strike, in Rafah, targeted and killed a Hamas member, injuring many others. Hamas said the man who was killed was a member of its military wing, Al Qassam brigades, who had been involved in confronting the Israeli incursion. According to eyewitnesses, "Al Khatib jumped out of his car when the first rocket hit the car, but other rockets flew over the car, hitting him and other two members."Meanwhile, also in Rafah where Israeli Occupation Forces are patrolling along the border, a number of missiles were fired on Rafah's eastern areas, destroying trees, agricultural land, and

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