Palestinian teen killed trying to stop Kassam launch

[Sayeret]

Palestinian health and security officials said that a group of Fatah Al Aksa Martyr's Brigades terrorists killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy Friday morning in the town of Beit Hanun in the northern Gaza Strip after the youth tried to stop them from setting up a Kassam rocket launcher near his family's home, Army Radio reported.

Members of the Arafat-linked terrorist group were trying to plant Kassam rocket launchers next to the Zanin family residence in northern Beit Hanun, when the family, concerned over IDF retaliation, argued and ultimately struggled with the terrorists.

In the ensuing scuffle, the terrorists opened fire on the Zanin family, killing Jamil Zanin, 15, and injuring 5 others. The Kassam crew gathered their launchers and missiles and left the scene. No Kassam rockets have been launched out of Northern Gaza so far Friday.

Sad story

[SeanAshi]

Its just like the shootings of so called collabrators...justice Palestinian style. :roll: Arafat should really implement some kind of law and order, he has the capabilities.

[Javehn]

Its just like the shootings of so called collabrators...justice Palestinian style. :roll: Arafat should really implement some kind of law and order, he has the capabilities.

Naa... If you watched latest news about what's going on in Palestine , particulary in Gaza (strangly enough , not one word about it in the forum) , you know about the caos and mayhem that's going on in PA authority right now (All the kidnapping wave) , and calls against Araphat from Hamas , and other security groups .

[Sayeret]

Naa... If you watched latest news about what's going on in Palestine , particulary in Gaza (strangly enough , not one word about it in the forum) , you know about the caos and mayhem that's going on in PA authority right now (All the kidnapping wave) , and calls against Araphat from Hamas , and other security groups .

Fights between Hamas and Fatah have happened before but nothing has seemed to last as long.

[agcsy]

It just goes to show that the people doing this crap are evil.

[2Sheds_Jackson]

That's awful. The T's were using the cover of a residential neighborhood, essentially making the family human shields. When they kid tried to protect his home, they killed him for it.

I noticed that the lowlifes didn’t set up rockets outside of their own homes, the pieces of sh*t.

Are there any grownups in charge over there? Or has it just degenerated into a free-for-all?

RIP to the kid.

[anonymous individual]

Sad story. I feel sorry for the kid.

BTW, wha is the Kassam rocket?

[chauncy republicans]

Posted: 23 July 2004 2044 hrs

Three dead as unrest flares in Gaza



GAZA CITY : Violence flared in the Gaza Strip as three Palestinians were killed, including two Islamic militants, and fresh protests erupted against Yasser Arafat's appointment of his cousin as local security chief.

A Palestinian teenager was killed Friday morning in Beit Hanun, in the northern Gaza Strip, as he and other residents were protesting against militants attempting to plant a roadside bomb to blow up Israeli armour

Witnesses said Hassan al-Zaanin has been killed by Palestinian fire.

They said residents feared that an anti-Israeli attack would lead to harsh and collective army reprisals.

But security sources said the youth had been killed by Israeli troops that indiscriminately opened fire at both the gunmen and the angry residents.

Israeli troops took over Beit Hanun late last month after a rocket attack from there killed two people in southern Israel, just a few miles (kilometres) across the Gaza border.

The army has vowed to stop militants from using Beit Hanun as a launchpad for firing rockets and bulldozed agricultural fields where attackers typically hid.

Palestinian security sources and the army both said that land levelling had been stepped up in the past few days.

Late Thursday night in Gaza, two Palestinian militants including a leader of the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad were killed in an Israeli air strike, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.

An army spokesman said "an aerial operation succeeded in killing Hazem Arhim, who was preparing a large-scale (anti-Israeli) attack in the coming days."

Arhim, 27, of Islamic Jihad's Al-Quds Brigade had been sought by Israeli forces for alleged involvement in several attacks. The other militant was identified as Rauf Abu Afi.

In May, Arhim walked through the steets of Gaza City with what he said were the remains of six Israeli soldiers who had been killed.

The army said Arhim organized suicide bombings and was responsible for other attacks against targets in Israel or on soldiers and settlers in the Gaza Strip.

Islamic Jihad said the two militants were traveling in the eastern Zeitun area of Gaza City when rockets fired by helicopters detroyed their vehicle.

Also in Gaza City, several thousand demonstrators flanked by masked gunmen took to the streets to protest Arafat's appointment of his cousin Musa as security chief in the Gaza Strip.

The angry crowd had rallied late Thursday in response to a call from the radical Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and from a section of Arafat's Fatah movement.

The Brigades are loosely affiliated to the mainstream Fatah.

"Try the symbols of corruption before the people tries them," they chanted.

Violent protests erupted last weekend after Arafat appointed Musa as the new overall head of general security following a breakdown in order and a string of kidnappings in Gaza.

Demonstrators led by the Brigades then denounced him as the epitome of corruption.

Reacting to the protests, Arafat announced Monday that Musa would only head up the general security branch in the Gaza Strip, rather than the whole of the Palestinian territories as initially indicated.

In other violence, an Israeli soldier guarding a northern West Bank Jewish settlement was wounded before dawn Friday by a Palestinian gunman who was trying to infiltrate the community, Israeli military sources said.

The militant opened fire on an army post at the entrance of Shavei Shomron. Troops fired back but the attacker managed to flee.

The soldier, whose condition was said not to be life threatening, was evacuated to hospital.

The army also said it nabbed wanted Fatah militant Mohammed Abu Khusa, in the southern West Bank, over his alleged participation in deadly anti-Israeli attacks. - AFP

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