Carnage starts to unfold once more in the Gaza Strip

January 3, 2006

Khan Younis - Ma'an - The Gaza Strip has, on Wednesday, witnessed several anonymous killings. One young man was shot in the head, and killed instantly, in the northern Gaza Strip, while the punctured corpses of a woman and child were also found, having been stabbed several times.

At the same time, Samir Khail, a member of the entourage of the Palestinian minister of interior was wounded in an unidentified explosion in the northern Gaza Strip, causing the loss of an arm and a leg.

The Kamal Udwan hospital has received the body of Ala' Abu An-Nasir, 30, who was found dead after being shot in the head.

Unidentified gunmen have also abducted a member of the preventive security service in Khan Younis, after shooting him. Security sources have stated that Lieutenant Mu'taz At-Taweel's car was intercepted by two unmarked Subaru vehicles near Martyr's Square in central Khan Younis, before the occupants of the cars shot the man and abducted him.