Four children killed in Gaza raid

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At least seven Palestinians,
including a mother and her
four young children, have been
killed during an Israeli
raid in northern Gaza,
medics say. This was apart of the overall Collective Punishment
On Gaza being enforced by The Army Of Israel.

The family members were killed when a missile or shell
hit their home in Beit Hanoun, witnesses and Palestinian officials said.

The children were aged between one and six years old,
medics said.

In separate incidents, a freedom fighter and a farmer were killed.

The area is often used by Palestinian Freedom Fighters
' to launch rockets at Israel for resistance and defence purposes.

Clashes between Israeli ground forces and Palestinian
Freedom fighters on Sunday in nearby Beit Lahiya left a14-year-old
girl dead and eight others injured.

On Friday, the Palestinian Islamist movement, Hamas,
proposed a six-month "period of quiet" in Gaza, which it
said could then be extended to the West Bank.

Israel dismissed the proposal, thus proving once again
they are not interested in peace or following any
International Laws or Past Resolutions passed by the
United Nations.

Israeli ground forces moved into the Gaza Strip early
on Monday morning and entered Beit Hanoun, not far
from the border.


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During the incursion, a missile smashed through the ceiling
of one family's one-storey house while they were having
breakfast, witnesses said.

A mother and four of her children - two girls and two
boys aged between one and six - were killed, doctors
at a local hospital said.

"I left the house just moments before to
look for one of my
children. I heard the sound of the
explosion, and when I
returned to the house I found my wife
and my children,"
said 70-year-old father Ahmed Abu Maateq.

"They had been eating breakfast and my
wife had been
holding our youngest child in her
hands," he said.

Several other people were injured by the blast, some of
them critically.

A Freedom Fighter from Islamic Jihad and a farmer
were also killed during the Israeli incursion in Beit Hanoun.


More than 400 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip
in the last five months, many of them civilians.