Man wounded last month in Israeli attack on Gaza dies

19 July 2007

Gaza - Ma'an - Ali Zohdi Hallas, 23, a Palestinian injured in an Israeli incursion into Gaza last month, succumbed to his wounds Thursday morning in an Israeli hosptial.

Palestinian General Director of ambulance and emergency services, Dr Mu'awiya Hassanein, said that Hallas was taken last month to an Israeli hospital called Yekhlof with serious chest wounds. Officials said they are working to bring the body to Gaza.

Meanwhile, Palestinian security services are planning to coordinate with Israeli authorities to bring the body of Sanaa Shannan, the woman who died on the Egyptian side of Rafah border crossing yesterday. Previous attempts to coordinate the transfer of human remains over the border have not succeeded.