Israeli troops kill Gaza girl
Reuters
Date: 01-26-05
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops have shot and killed a 3-year-old Palestinian girl in the Gaza Strip, witnesses and medics say, breaching a rare lull in violence brokered by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Witnesses said troops guarding Tel Qatif settlement in central Gaza shot at the Palestinian town of Deir al-Balah on Wednesday and that a bullet penetrated the home of Rahma Abu Shamal, striking her in the head.
Israeli military sources said soldiers had opened fire after Palestinian militants launched mortar bombs or rockets at Israeli targets. It was not immediately clear if these were the shots that killed the girl, they said.
Abbas has been trying to coax a ceasefire from militant groups spearheading a 4-year-old Palestinian revolt ahead of Israel's planned withdrawal from Gaza later this year.
Last week, Palestinian security police fanned out with Israeli assent in north Gaza to halt militant attacks on Jewish settlers and rocket fire at Israel, ushering in a calm unknown in the last years before Yasser Arafat's death in November.
But on Tuesday, militants broke an eight day silence and fired a makeshift rocket into southern Israel, causing no damage or injury. Israeli troops shot and lightly wounded three Palestinians in a car that apparently went through a red light at a major highway junction checkpoint in south Gaza.
Now Palestinians plan to deploy hundreds more troops in a part of Gaza where militants frequently target Jewish enclaves where most of the coastal territory's 8,500 settlers live.
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