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Palestinians flee Israel's Gaza Strip
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PALESTINIANS picked up sleeping children and ran through the
dark to find shelter in back streets or a hospital yesterday
after Israeli forces raided a Gaza Strip refugee camp on a
demolition mission. The raid by tanks and helicopters followed
the fatal shooting by a Palestinian militant of an Israeli
soldier guarding a nearby Jewish settlement Tuesday. The
Israeli army said it had “destroyed two empty buildings which
served terrorists as shooting posts and shelter.” Palestinian
security sources and residents said a building was
booby-trapped and blew up as Israeli troops retreated. The
structure collapsed on small houses as people returned to
them, killing one man and injuring six others. Hajar Abu Laws
sat on the rubble of her house, striking her head repeatedly
with hands in anger and grief. “I wish they had bombed my body
and torn it into pieces and they did not destroy my house,”
the woman told Reuters. “There were two helicopters in the
sky. They started firing their machine guns on houses, in the
streets, and sliced through the electricity wires. The whole
refugee camp was thrown into darkness,” said camp resident
Salim Abu Amouna. Yesterday’s raid rattled an
Israeli-Palestinian security plan agreed Sunday requiring
Israeli forces to ease military restrictions in Gaza and the
West Bank city of Bethlehem in return for Palestinian police
clamping down on attackers. (SD-Agencies)
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