Israeli Missiles Kill More Palestinians
GAZA CITY (Arab News), 14 October 2006 — Israel pressed forward with a stepped-up offensive in the Gaza Strip yesterday, killing at least four people in a pair of attacks in the coastal area.
The fighting brought the death toll in the offensive to 13 Palestinians, including a young girl, since Thursday.
Yesterday, an Israeli aircraft fired missiles at a car in the northern Gaza Strip, killing three Hamas fighters, including a local commander, the group said. Witnesses said the force of the blast ripped the white sedan into two.
The army confirmed the strike.
In the southern Gaza Strip, Israeli troops shot a 29-year-old woman outside her house in the village of Abassan, Palestinian hospital officials said. The army said it had no information about a woman being shot. It reported killing an armed person and wounding another in the same area around the same time.
The latest Israeli activity has been focused in the Abassan area, near the southern city of Khan Younis. Israeli airstrikes on Thursday killed eight people, including a boy and a girl.
Meanwhile, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said yesterday that Hamas will never recognize Israel’s right to exist, rejecting a key demand of the international community and signaling further deadlock in efforts to forge a Palestinian coalition government.
Haniyeh’s declaration was likely to increase tensions with President Mahmoud Abbas, who has been urging Hamas to recognize Israel as a way to ending Western sanctions against the Palestinians. Hamas has refused, and talks over forming a power-sharing government with Abbas’ Fatah movement have stalled over the issue.
“Israel might have secured the recognition of some of our people, and some in the Arab world and in the international community. It is now seeking another recognition, Islamic recognition, “ Haniyeh said in a sermon during Friday prayers in Khan Younis. “I say we will not give it this card.”
Hamas will not recognize Israel “no matter for how long,” he said, adding that the group will not give up its armed struggle against the Jewish state. “Resistance is a legitimate right... We will not give up our right to defend ourselves.”
The fighting brought the death toll in the offensive to 13 Palestinians, including a young girl, since Thursday.
Yesterday, an Israeli aircraft fired missiles at a car in the northern Gaza Strip, killing three Hamas fighters, including a local commander, the group said. Witnesses said the force of the blast ripped the white sedan into two.
The army confirmed the strike.
In the southern Gaza Strip, Israeli troops shot a 29-year-old woman outside her house in the village of Abassan, Palestinian hospital officials said. The army said it had no information about a woman being shot. It reported killing an armed person and wounding another in the same area around the same time.
The latest Israeli activity has been focused in the Abassan area, near the southern city of Khan Younis. Israeli airstrikes on Thursday killed eight people, including a boy and a girl.
Meanwhile, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said yesterday that Hamas will never recognize Israel’s right to exist, rejecting a key demand of the international community and signaling further deadlock in efforts to forge a Palestinian coalition government.
Haniyeh’s declaration was likely to increase tensions with President Mahmoud Abbas, who has been urging Hamas to recognize Israel as a way to ending Western sanctions against the Palestinians. Hamas has refused, and talks over forming a power-sharing government with Abbas’ Fatah movement have stalled over the issue.
“Israel might have secured the recognition of some of our people, and some in the Arab world and in the international community. It is now seeking another recognition, Islamic recognition, “ Haniyeh said in a sermon during Friday prayers in Khan Younis. “I say we will not give it this card.”
Hamas will not recognize Israel “no matter for how long,” he said, adding that the group will not give up its armed struggle against the Jewish state. “Resistance is a legitimate right... We will not give up our right to defend ourselves.”
posted by HRM Deborah of Israel and the Messenger of Peace at 3:26 PM
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