- Title: GAZA : PALESTINIANS INJURED IN LATEST ISRAELI RAID
- Date: 22nd December 2004
- Summary: (W2) KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA (DECEMBER 22, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) (NIGHT VIEWS) (AUDIO AS INCOMING) 1. VARIOUS OF PALESTINIAN FAMILIES FLEEING/ WALKING ACROSS ROAD 0.17 2. SLV FAMILY TRAVELLING IN CART 0.24 3. SLV PEOPLE WITH MAN IN WHEELCHAIR 0.29 4. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE IN STREETS ,TAKING COVER BY VEHICLE. (SOUND OF GUNFIRE) 0.36
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- Location: KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
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- Story Text: Palestinians injured in latest Israeli raid in Gaza
are taken to hospital.
Israeli troops killed a Palestinian militant during
a raid on a southern Gaza Strip refugee camp on Wednesday
(December 22) Palestinian witnesses said, in what the army
called an operation to stop attacks on Jewish settlements.
At least one other Palestinian was wounded during the
same exchange of fire in the Khan Younis camp.
Dozens of Palestinian families fled their homes as
about 30 Israeli armoured vehicles, including bulldozers,
moved in on the second such raid in less than a week.
Eleven Palestinians were killed in a previous two-day raid.
Families said they did not have enough time to take
belongings from homes they feared would be destroyed.
The army said Palestinian fighters were using abandoned
structures and the courtyards of houses to launch attacks
on nearby Jewish settlements.
Last week's raid on Khan Younis was the largest Israeli
incursion in the Palestinian territories since the death of
President Yasser Arafat in November.
Israel had cut back on military operations in the
occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip following Arafat's death,
in an apparent bid to bolster a new and more moderate
Palestinian leadership before a January 9 election to
choose his successor.
But militants have vowed no let-up in their attacks on
Jewish enclaves in Gaza as Israel presses ahead with a plan
to remove all 21 settlements in the coastal strip and four
of 120 in the West Bank in 2005.
Palestinian witnesses said Israeli forces had also
massed around settlements in the northern Gaza Strip
following attacks by militants firing makeshift rockets.
The fresh violence overshadowed diplomatic efforts to revive
Israel
i-Palestinian peace talks stalled by violence.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair was in Jerusalem on
Wednesday and began talks with Israeli counterpart Ariel
Sharon followed by a series of meetings with Israeli
leaders. Blair was to meet Palestinian leaders Mahmoud
Abbas and Ahmed Qurie in the West Bank town of Ramallah
later in the day.
Blair's one-day visit was the highest-level diplomatic
mission to the region since Arafat, regarded by Israel and
the United States as an obstacle to peace, died of an
undisclosed illness in a hospital near Paris on November 11.
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