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Zeven Palestijnen gedood bij beschieting picknick
Uitgegeven op vrijdag 09 juni 2006 om 18:08:49, bijgewerkt om 21:59:12
(Novum/AP) - Zeven Palestijnen zijn vrijdag om het leven gekomen en meer dan dertig gewond geraakt toen Israëlische artilleristen een strand in de Gazastrook onder vuur namen. Dat hebben Palestijnse ziekenhuismedewerkers gezegd. Volgens Palestijnse bronnen werd een groep burgers geraakt die op het strand een familiepicknick hielden.
Onder de doden waren een vrouw en drie kinderen, alsook twee volwassen mannen en twee tieners. Eerder hadden ziekenhuismedewerkers melding gemaakt van negen doden. Het strand lag bezaaid met afgerukte lichaamsdelen. Een tent hing aan flarden.
Het Israëlische leger nam vrijdag plaatsen in de Gazastrook onder vuur waarvandaan Palestijnse guerrillastrijders raketten afschoten naar Israël. Het leger zei de luchtmacht noch de marine artillerie had afgevuurd, maar de landmacht mogelijk wél. Stafchef luitenant-generaal Dan Halutz beval dat de artillerie in het gebied moest zwijgen totdat de zaak was uitgezocht. Een legerwoordvoerder betuigde spijt en zei dat Israël hulp heeft aangeboden, waaronder verzorging van gewonden in Israëlische ziekenhuizen.
De Palestijnse leider Mahmoud Abbas veroordeelde het "bloedbad" in Gaza en vroeg om internationale tussenkomst om het Israëlische offensief te stoppen.
Israeli artillery fire kills Palestinians
Friday 09 June 2006, 20:37 Makka Time, 17:37 GMT
Israeli artillery shells have struck a group of Palestinian civilians at a beach in Bait Lahiya in northern Gaza, killing seven people, including three children, and wounding 36 others, Aljazeera reports.
The artillery shells were fired on Friday by Israeli gunboats stationed just off the Mediterranean coast.
The dead and the wounded Palestinians were having a picnic on the beach as it was the weekly holiday, Aljazeera's correspondent Wael al-Dahduh said.
The barrage scattered body parts along the seaside. A tent was destroyed, and bloody sheets were scattered about. A crowd quickly flocked to the are, screaming and running around in confusion.
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, called the attack "a bloody massacre" and urged the international community, including the US, Europe and the Security Council, to intervene.
Palestinian medical sources said five of those killed at the beach were members of the Ghali family from Gaza. Children aged one, three and 10 died alongside their parents, Ali and Raisa.
The wounded were transferred to three hospitals - al-Shifaa in Gaza City, Kamal Adwan in Jabaliya refugee camp and al-Awda in Bait Lahiya, al-Dahduh said.
Israeli response
The Israeli army said it determined aircraft and gunboats had not fired the artillery that struck the picnic, but that ground forces might have been the source.
It said military chief Lieutenant-General Dan Halutz ordered a halt in artillery attacks in the area while an investigation continued.
"We regret any harm caused to innocent civilians," said Captain Jacob Dallal, an army spokesman. He said Israel offered medical assistance, including evacuation to hospitals in Israel, to the wounded.
Gaza's Mediterranean Sea coast
is policed by Israeli gunboats
The Israeli army initially said its ships had fired shells at fighters who launched rockets after Israel's killing of Jamal Abu Samhadana, a leader of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), on Thursday.
Dallal said the army does not know "for certainty" if the shells were fired by Israel, and he said the military "deeply regretted" any civilian deaths.
Also on Friday, Aljazeera's correspondent al-Dahduh said, an Israeli missile attack on Salaheddin Street in the centre of Gaza left several Palestinians injured, after a series of Israeli strikes and shellings killed nine people.
Palestinian officials said the street attack killed a man travelling in a car, but there were no details on the identity of the man, and the Israeli army said it was investigating the report.
Missile strikes
Three Palestinians were killed in an earlier air strike on a car in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian security sources said.
The killings raised the death toll in Israeli attacks on Friday to 13. At least nine civilians were among the dead, according to Palestinian officials.
In the first of the day's missile strikes, a Palestinian from the PRC who was preparing to fire rockets into southern Israel, was wounded, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.
The committees said the rockets were being fired in retaliation for Israel's killing overnight of Samhadana.
Samhadana was killed by an
Israeli rocket on Thursday
Samhadana and three others were killed in an Israeli air strike on a training camp for militia members near Rafah in the Gaza Strip on Thursday.
Hours after his death, two rockets were fired by Palestinians in Gaza at the Israeli town of Sderot, but did not cause any casualties.
Thousands of Palestinians gathered to show their support for Samhadana at his funeral in Rafah on Friday.
"Abu Ataya, we will deliver our answer in Tel Aviv," chanted hundreds of armed Palestinians before unleashing a volley of gunfire into the air.
A member of the PRC said in a speech to the crowd: "Abu Ataya is the Zarqawi of Palestine" - a reference to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaeda chief in Iraq who was killed on Wednesday by the US.
Contentious choice
Samhadana was an ally of the Hamas government and had been appointed to head a new security force.
The Palestinian president blocked the appointment amid the political tensions between Hamas and Abbas's Fatah faction, and Samhadana did not take up the position.
The Hamas government said Samhadana's killing was a "war crime" against a "national leader".
Ghazi Hamad, a government spokesman, said: "Israel's targeting of a government official is a dangerous step.
"Israel is responsible for the consequences of this crime and the response from the resistance."
The Israeli military said that Abu Samhadana was a legitimate target.
"The PRC terror organisation, under the personal instruction and direction of Abu Samhadana, is responsible for a variety of terror attacks against Israeli civilians," the army said in a statement.
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Een Palestijns meisje wordt naar het ziekenhuis in Beit Lahiya gedragen nadat ze gewond raakte op het strand van de Gazastrook. De Israëlische marine vuurde granaten af op het strand en trof daarbij een groep picknickende Palestijnen. Palestijnse medici spreken van vijftien doden.
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Armageddon
10-06-06, 05:30
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7 Palestinian civilians killed when IDF shell hits Gaza beach
By Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and Agencies
Seven Palestinians at a family picnic were killed Friday when an errant Israel Defense Forces artillery shell apparently slammed into a beach in the northern Gaza Strip. Some 40 others were wounded.
A woman and two young children, aged six months and 18 months, as well as a young teenager were among the dead, medical officials said. All of the dead were believed to be related. The IDF apologized for the incident, saying it "regretted the strike on innocents."
In the wake of the shelling, the military wing of the ruling Palestinian Hamas party said that it would renew suicide bombings in Israel, ending the truce that the group declared last year. "The earthquake in the Zionist towns will start again and the aggressors will have no choice but to prepare their coffins or their luggage," Hamas militants declared in a leaflet. "The resistance groups... will choose the proper place and time for the tough, strong and unique response."
IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz ordered an end to the shelling of northern Gaza - aimed at deterring militants from firing Qassam rockets - until the completion of the investigation into the civilian deaths. The military also offered the Palestinians assistance in the wake of the strike, saying that the wounded could be evacuated to Israeli hospitals.
Major General Yoav Galant, head of the IDF Southern Command, said Friday evening that the army is looking into the circumstances of the explosion. In addition to the more likely scenario that a shell strayed from its path, the army was also exploring whether the explosion might have been caused by a "work accident."
"It is not our intention to harm innocent civilians. We are investigating the incident in order to try to clarify what happened here," Galant said, adding that the IDF is aware of areas in which civilians are present, and that military gunners are ordered to prevent firing on these areas.
IAF strike kills three militants
Earlier Friday, an Israel Air Force strike killed three Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) militants in Beit Hanun, in the Gaza Strip, just minutes after they fired a Qassam rocket into Israel.
IDF sources said that at approximately 3 P.M., the militants fired a rocket that landed in an open field near the southern town of Sderot. One of the militants, who was standing outside the car, was killed by an IAF missile soon after the rocket launch. The other two men attempted to drive away, but were killed by another missile that hit their moving car.
Security forces had been placed on alert Friday following Palestinian threats to avenge Thursday's IAF strike that killed Popular Resistance Committees leader Jamal Abu Samhadana, Israel Radio reported.
Abu Samhadana, who also headed the Hamas government's Interior Ministry security force in the Gaza Strip, was killed in an air strike on a Palestinian militants' training camp in Gaza. Abu Samhadana was a key player in rocket attacks on Israel and a suspect in the fatal 2003 bombing of a U.S. convoy in the Gaza Strip.
More than ten thousands mourners attended Abu Samhadana's funeral in Rafah on Friday afternoon. Among the crowd were senior Hamas officials, including spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri, Interior Minister Saed Siam and other parliament members. During the funeral, a 19-year-old was lightly injured by ceremonial gunfire.
At least three other PRC operatives were also killed in the attack. Hospital officials said 10 more were wounded. A PRC spokesman said the group would avenge Abu Samhadana's death. "The Zionists and Israelis have opened the gates of hell by assassinating Abu Samhadana," said PRC spokesman Abu Abir. "The Zionist entity and Zionist settlements near Gaza will not feel security and safety any more. Our rockets will rain into the Zionist entity and our heroes will blow themselves up among their dirty bodies."
Militants did succeed in launching four Qassam rockets on Friday. Early in the morning two rockets hit Sderot, one of them causing some damage. The other two Qassams landed in open areas later in the day, causing no casualties or damage.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said all the Palestinian organizations have the right to respond to Israeli aggression and that all means were acceptable in harming Israel, Israel Radio reported. Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the air strike was an Israeli crime that damages the chances of peace, the radio said
Heel erg wat er gebeurd :(.
Ik hoop dat snel elke vorm van steun wordt stopgezet aan Israel.
Annan wil onderzoek naar Israëlische aanval
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(Belga) De secretaris-generaal van de VN, Kofi Annan, is 'ernstig verontrust' door de dood van zeven Palestijnse burgers bij een Israëlisch bombardement op een strand In Gaza. Annan vraagt een grondig onderzoek naar de aanval. Dat staat in een persbericht van zijn woordvoerder. De secretaris-generaal herinnert ook alle betrokken partijen aan hun verplichtingen om het internationale recht te volgen en geen burgers in gevaar te brengen.
Hij roept ook op om een nieuwe escalatie van het geweld te vermijden. De Palestijnse vertegenwoordiger bij de VN, Ryad Mansour, had vrijdag aan de VN-Veiligheidsraad en aan Annan gevraagd om een einde te maken aan de Israëlische aanvallen tegen Palestijnse burgers in Gaza.(KET) BELGA/AG
Ghalia family lost six members in shelling, in 2005 they lost four
By The Associated Press
The hardest hit in the Israel Defense Forces artillery strike on a Gaza beach Friday was the Ghalia family, which lost six members, among them the father, one of his two wives, an infant boy and an 18-month-old girl.
Less than two years ago, four members of the family were killed when IDF shell hit the family farm in the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahia. The military had been targeting the area in response to Palestinian mortar fire.
Ali Ghalia, a Palestinian farmer, had taken his two wives and nine children on a trip to the beach, and the family was enjoying a picnic when the IDF artillery shell hit them.
"This was his first day at the beach this summer. He was taking his kids to play. It's destiny," said Nasreen Ghalia, a sister-in-law of the father.
She said one of the survivors was a 7-year-old girl, Hadeel, who still did not know she had lost her parents and siblings. The family ordered visitors not to break the news to the girl.
Hadeel was hospitalized with shrapnel in her neck. Three half-brothers and sisters and her step-mother lay in other hospitals, some in serious condition.
"Hadeel is now an orphan," said Nasreen, who was not at the family picnic.
With eyes welling with tears, Nasreen's husband, Ramadan, raised his hands to the skies when asked what he would do with his brother's children. "God only knows," he said.
"This is my place, I am not going anywhere," Nasreen said. "I just want the Israelis to leave us alone."
The artillery fire scattered body parts, destroyed a tent and sent bloody sheets where the picnickers had sat flying into the air. A panicked crowd quickly gathered, screaming and running around hysterically.
Kamal Ghobn had just arrived at the beach on a bus with about 50 relatives at the time of the attack.
"I was still parking the bus and everyone got out to go to the beach. As I locked the door I felt the thud of the shells and felt a sting in my side," said Ghobn, who was lightly wounded by shrapnel. He said he saw four shells land. No other family relatives were hurt.
Ghobn said he rushed a wounded woman in his bus to medical care.
In the aftermath of the strike, a sobbing girl lay in the sand, crying uncontrollably for her father. "Father! Father!" she screamed, as the body of a man lay motionless in the sand nearby.
One man held the limp body of what appeared to be a girl or young woman. "Muslims, look at this," he cried.
The emergency services of the Palestinian hospitals were overwhelmed. An emergency doctor stood at the beach entrance, screaming at ambulances and directing traffic as the beach was still being cleaned from wounded and body parts.
The IDF frequently targets open areas in the northern Gaza Strip used by Palestinian militants to launch homemade Qassam rockets toward Israel. Repeated Israel Air Force strikes and artillery fire have done little to halt the crude rockets, which land in Israel almost daily. The rockets are highly inaccurate but have been fatal.
While Israel has urged civilians to stay away from the Qassam launching areas, there have been other civilian casualties recently. In early April, an 8-year-old girl was killed when tank shells hit her house, and last month, three family members, including a 6-year-old boy, were killed in an IDF airstrike aimed as they drove in a car.
The missile had been aimed at a militant traveling in a nearby vehicle.
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Mij viel op dat die familie al eerder onnodig getroffen was.