Gaza fighting claims 13 lives
2004-09-30 12:44
Gaza City - A Palestinian teenager was killed by Israeli troops in the northern Gaza Strip, medics said, bringing the overall toll to 10 Palestinians and three Israelis killed in fighting on Thursday.
Mohammed al-Jaabir, a 17-year-old unarmed civilian, was fatally shot in the head by Israeli fire, the sources said.
A Palestinian man killed minutes before by shrapnel from a tank shell was said to be a militant whose identity was not immediately known.
The army was pressing with a massive raid in the northern Gaza Strip to put an end to militant rocket attacks after two young children were killed in the southern Israeli town of Sderot late on Wednesday.
The latest deaths bring to 4 371 the number of people killed since the start of the Palestinian intifada, or uprising, four years ago. They include 3 347 Palestinians and 953 Israelis, according to an AFP count.
- AFP