Mideast - AFP
Israeli soldiers fire on demonstrators in Gaza, wounding child
Date: Sat, Jul 31, 2004
BEIT HANUN, Gaza Strip (AFP) - Israeli soldiers opened fire on some 200 Palestinian women and children demonstrating in the re-occupied northern Gaza town of Beit Hanun, wounding a child, an AFP correspondent said.
The protesters shouted slogans against the Israeli army's operation in Beit Hanun and demanding food and medicine for the inhabitants of the town, where Israeli soldiers deployed in late June in operations to prevent rocket attacks on Israeli territory.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat (news - web sites)'s Fatah (news - web sites) movement organized the protest.
The Israeli army denied to AFP that soldiers fired in the direction of the demonstrators but admitted that they had fired warning shots.
On Friday, more than 1,000 Palestinians demonstrated in the nearby towns of Jabaliya and Beit Lahia against the re-occupation of Beit Hanun.
The Jabaliya protest was called by the radical Islamic group Hamas, which claimed responsibility for rocket attacks Friday and Saturday on the Israeli town of Sderot across the border. No one was wounded in the attacks.
The protest in Beit Lahia was called by Islamic Jihad, another radical Palestinian movement.
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