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Pro-Hamas Website Details Israeli Raid on Tulkarm, Names Those Killed

Posted on: Thursday, 25 August 2005, 09:00 CDT

Text of report in English by pro-Hamas Palestinian Information Centre website on 25 August

Tulkarm, 25 August: Israeli occupation forces disguised in plain clothes murdered five Palestinians in the West Bank city of Tulkarm last night including three boys.

Eyewitnesses told PIC that Israeli soldiers affiliated with the so-called Duvdevan unit broke into downtown Tulkarm and suddenly opened intensified fire at a number of youngsters in its refugee camp's main street.

They identified the victims as Adil Abu-Khalil, 26, (wanted for Islamic Jihad affiliation), Mahmud Abu-Hadi, 15, Anas Abu-Zaynah, 17, Muhammad Zaydan, 17, and Majdi Atiyah, 22.

A mini-bus with a Palestinian registration plate on it arrived to the camp shortly before midnight Wednesday and stopped beside a group of youth near a restaurant, the witnesses said, adding that the soldiers got out of the car and shot at the young men at close range.

They charged the soldiers with killing Adil Abu-Khalil in cold- blood after arresting him and forcing him onto the wall of a nearby building. The sources pointed out that Abu-Khalil was not armed.

Immediately after the bloodbath, Israeli troops stormed the camp and evacuated the disguised soldiers along with the five bodies.

The occupation authorities handed four of the bodies to the PNA [Palestinian National Authority] liaison office later and the fifth body was handed [over] at dawn Thursday.

National and Islamic forces in the city declared a three day strike out of mourning on the victims while the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (Fatah) and the Al-Qassam Brigades (Hamas) vowed reprisals.

Source: BBC Monitoring Middle East

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