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Last update - 06:32 03/07/2009
Palestinians: IDF tank fire kills Gaza teen
By Haaretz Service and the Associated Press
Tags: Israel news, Gaza, IDF 

A 17-year-old Palestinian girl was killed and several other Palestinians wounded in a blast in central Gaza near the Israeli border Thursday, Hamas security officials said, charging that an Israeli tank shell was to blame.

The Israel Defense Forces said soldiers returned mortar fire, but did not use tank shells, after they came under Palestinian fire across the border in central Gaza.

IDF sources said that Palestinian militants had been firing mortar shells when the blast occurred, and they believed that it was possible that Palestinian mortar fire caused the casualties.
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Palestinian Health Ministry official Dr. Moaiya Hassanain said the fatality was a 17-year-old girl, and one of the wounded was a 3-year-old girl.

Earlier, Hassanain said the little girl had been killed.

The Hamas officials spoke under customary condition of anonymity.

The Palestinian news agency Ma'an named the dead girl as Hiyam al-Ayish, adding that her 24-year-old brother had also been wounded. Al-Aqsa hospital sources said that more people had been wounded.

Other Palestinians raised doubts about the report that an Israel tank shell was responsible for the blast, noting that reporters were uncharacteristically banned from the area and the family refused to talk to them.

There have been sporadic border clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants since Israel ended a devastating three-week offensive in Gaza in January, aimed at stopping Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israel.
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  1.   Rockets 20:11  |  Rob 02/07/09
  2.   poor girl 20:21  |  steve 02/07/09
  3.   Gaza blast kills teen, wounds four others 20:30  |  HF 02/07/09
  4.   Probably another `work accident` 20:40  |  Mark 02/07/09
  5.   working accident 20:45  |  vik 02/07/09
  6.   Hamastan wants new war 20:52  |  Rick 02/07/09
  7.   Why is Israel using tanks in Gaza? 21:23  |  Silvienne 02/07/09
  8.   Too bad she won`t be 21:45  |  Concerened 02/07/09
  9.   Israel desperate for a Palestinian response to their goading 21:50  |  Labhras 02/07/09
  10.   Hamas kills its own again 22:25  |  Gina 02/07/09
  11.   A tank round? 22:38  |  Mark Lincoln 02/07/09
  12.   Obviously a setup 22:42  |  Natallie Durson 02/07/09
  13.   and the slaughter goes on 22:48  |  disguyted 02/07/09
  14.   Rob #1, there are plenty of stories about Sderot 23:02  |  Rick 02/07/09
  15.   Silvienne - there are no tanks in Gaza 23:41  |  ChanahS 02/07/09
  16.   #7 Silvienne 23:55  |  leoblue 02/07/09
  17.   Another Gazan Friendly Fire Incident 00:26  |  Jeff Northridge 03/07/09
  18.   Why should we believe Israel did not use tank shells? 00:37  |  Maureen Ann 03/07/09
  19.   So Young... 00:59  |  Yosemite 03/07/09
  20.   More Pal propaganda 01:05  |  Malone 03/07/09
  21.   Right 01:15  |  Colin Wright 03/07/09
  22.   to Labhras #9 `Israel Desperate...` 01:22  |  Colin Wright 03/07/09
  23.   Rob re rockets 01:22  |  Arie 03/07/09
  24.   It is, Silvienne, because you need to learn to grasp content befo 01:23  |  Darth Zaider (Ed) 03/07/09
  25.   to steve #2 `poor girl` 01:24  |  Colin Wright 03/07/09
  26.   You`re losing it Mark.. 01:27  |  Malone 03/07/09
  27.   Labhras’s Palestinian “high ground” is actually a sewer 01:32  |  Darth Zaider (Ed) 03/07/09
  28.   Israel is no longer worth the blood of Palestinians. 02:42  |  Dutch 03/07/09
  29.   IDF: liers liers, pants on fire 04:07  |  Jetset 03/07/09
  30.   The IDF already admitted it, Haaretz is behind... 04:12  |  BBSNews 03/07/09
  31.   What unGodly violence! 07:55  |  Dutch 03/07/09
  32.   What a shocking crime to wake up to this morning... 14:22  |  Dutch 03/07/09
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