Posted on 08/07/2007 8:38:05 AM PDT by knighthawk
A huge blast in northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday killed an 8-year-old boy and his 6-year-old sister and injured five other children, Palestinian health officials said. According to the AP, eyewitnesses said a group of children stumbled upon a homemade rocket or a mortar shell and started playing with it. The device exploded, injuring all seven children, two of whom died later of their wounds.
Dr. Moaiya Hassanain, a Palestinian health official, said the blast took place in the town of Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, and the wounded were evacuated to hospital.
The Kamal Adwan hospital identified the dead children as Wesam Abed Allah and his sister Hala.
Meanwhile, a Palestinian woman in her 50s was declared dead Monday evening while on her way home to the Gaza Strip after spending a month and a half stranded at the Egyptian side of the Rafah border with Gaza Strip. Dr. Hassanain said that Amna Haji's health condition badly deteriorated at the Oja crossing after one and a half month of hold-up at Rafah border.
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Hmmm.. homemade mortars.. must have been from a birthday party...
They were going to South Carolina to make fireworks.
Palestinian rocket kills 2 Gaza children
GAZA (Reuters) - A rocket fired at Israel by Palestinian militants on Tuesday fell short and killed two Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip, ambulance crews said.
No group claimed responsibility for launching the rocket, which landed near the northern Gaza town of Beit Lahiya, killing a seven-year-old boy and a girl, aged 9.
Reuters (IDS)
Hmmm. which story is true? Maybe both. it was a dud which fell short unexploded and discovered by Palestinian children, who, using their training from Kassam rocket class 101, began tampering with the fuse to see what went wrong and....
just making the rockets American workers won’t make.....ooops, wrong topic! :)
Doesn't really matter. The Palestinians will tell their people that Isreal did it.
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