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The Palestine Monitor<br>
A PNGO Information Clearinghouse<br><br>
UPDATE<br>
Israel marks International Women's Day with the killing of two
young<br>
Palestinian mothers March 9, 2004<br><br>
<a href="http://www.palestinemonitor.org/updates/international_women_day.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.palestinemonitor.org/updates/international_women_day.htm</a><br>
A young Palestinian mother was shot dead today as she tried to usher
her<br>
children to safety when Israel began intensive raids into the West
Bank<br>
city of Jenin.<br><br>
Witnesses said twenty three year old Dalal Sabaa was on the roof of
her<br>
house in the eastern neighborhood of the city when an Israeli
sniper<br>
killed her with one shot to the head. Among her other children,
Dalal<br>
leaves behind a one month old baby.<br><br>
Today's invasion of Jenin began around 12:00 pm, as dozens of
Israeli<br>
tanks, jeeps and armored vehicles invaded the city in the northern
West<br>
Bank. The troops converged on the city from several entrances and
were<br>
supported by at least two helicopters overhead.<br><br>
The Israeli forces imposed a curfew over the city, and took up
positions<br>
on roof tops as soldiers began surrounding houses. Gun fire rang out
as<br>
the troops fired randomly and indiscriminately. A photo journalist<br>
working with the "Reuters" news agency was injured when he was
shot in<br>
the leg by a live bullet. Witnesses also reported that a
communication<br>
tower belonging to the "Jawwal" Palestinian mobile phone
company was<br>
damaged, in the incursion.<br><br>
In another tragic case, a 34-year-old woman from the Gaza Strip city
of<br>
Rafah, died in a local hospital today having suffered severe
injuries<br>
during a shelling attack on her home five days ago. The attack
which<br>
also killed her husband caused Ietimad, who had been six months
pregnant<br>
to loose her unborn baby. Dr. Ali Musa the head of "Abu Yousef
Al<br>
Najar" hospital in Rafah today announced that Ietimad Kalab had
been<br>
unable to recover from the injuries she sustained to her head and
chest<br>
and had also died.<br><br>
Dr. Ali Musa confirmed that the couple leaves behind a two year old
son,<br>
Mohammad, who too was injured in the shelling attack on March 4 and
is<br>
fighting for his life in intensive care.<br><br>
<a href="http://www.palestinemonitor.org/updates/international_women_day.htm" eudora="autourl">http://www.palestinemonitor.org/updates/international_women_day.htm</a><br><br>
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