Reuters
Israeli Tank Fire Kills 15-Year-Old in Gaza
Date: Tue, Oct 05, 2004
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli tanks shelled a town in the in the northern Gaza Strip (news - web sites) early on Wednesday, killing a 15-year-old Palestinian and wounding 10 children, witnesses and medics said.
The tank fire came as Israel's Gaza offensive to quell rocket fire into Israeli border towns entered a seventh day, with a total of 73 Palestinians killed, among them 45 militants. Three Israelis have also died.
Medics said a tank shell killed a youth in one house in the town of Beit Lahiya and ambulance crews were pinned down by Israeli gunfire trying to get to the body.
Another shell hit a house where a family was sleeping, wounding 10 children ranging from six months to 12 years old, several of them seriously, hospital officials said.
A third shell that witnesses said was apparently aimed at militants wounded three civilian bystanders.
The Israeli army had no immediate comment.
Israel launched its campaign -- the biggest and bloodiest raid in the Gaza Strip in four years of conflict -- after a Hamas rocket attack killed two Israeli toddlers in a border town last Wednesday.
Israel's army killed the military chief of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad in a Gaza City air strike on Tuesday night that drew vows of revenge and could complicate efforts to end the offensive.
Another helicopter missile hours later killed two militants of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed wing of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites)'s Fatah (news - web sites) movement, and wounded four, two critically, in the nearby refugee camp of Jabalya.
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