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Last update - 01:55 07/04/2008
Palestinians: IDF shell kills 5-year-old in Gaza
By Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent and Reuters
Tags: Hamas, IDF, Gaza

A 5-year-old Palestinian boy was killed on Sunday when an Israel Defense Forces shell exploded near his home in the al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said.

Medical workers and militant groups said the boy, Abdullah Buhar, was killed during fighting between IDF soldiers and Palestinian militants in the Hamas-controlled Strip.

The medical workers, who examined the boy's body in a Gaza hospital, said he was killed by a shrapnel fragment from an IDF tank shell.
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The militant groups said they fired anti-tank missiles and mortar bombs at IDF troops during the fighting near the refugee camp.

An IDF spokeswoman confirmed troops exchanged fire in the area with armed
Palestinians but said they were unaware of casualties.

The IDF force, composed of soldiers from the Givati Brigade and the Armored Corps, had walked from Israeli territory to the outskirts of Bureij, where they encountered fire from several sources, including from inside homes and other structures. The soldiers returned fire.

It was not immediately clear whether the boy was killed by the IDF forces operating in the area or by Palestinian militants who may have misfired a mortar shell.

Doctors said a 16-year-old boy also was wounded.

IDF forces often carry out raids in Gaza towns and refugee camps, to stop the firing of rockets on Israel and to arrest militants suspected of terrorist activities.

Also on Sunday, five mortar shells and one Qassam rocket were fired into Israel from Gaza yesterday. No injuries were reported.

Despite ongoing efforts mediated by Egypt for a cease-fire with Hamas, violence has continued to ensue between Israel and militants in the coastal territory.

A senior member of the militant Palestinian group Hamas said Sunday that Israel has refused its offers for a temporary cease-fire proposed through Egyptian mediation.

Moussa Abu Marzouk, deputy head of Hamas' political bureau said that Israel has responded negatively via the Egyptian mediators to an offer for a truce with the group both in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank.

Abu Marzouk also said that if Israel does not release 350 Palestinian prisoners, it will never get kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit back alive, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported Sunday.

On Saturday, a Palestinian farmer was killed in the northern Gaza Strip in a similar incident.

Also Saturday, a Qassam rocket was fired at Ashkelon from the Gaza Strip, and landed in an open field south of the city's industrial zone. No injuries or damage was reported in the incident.

Ashkelon went into a state of alert as sirens sounded for the first time since the last escalation between Israel and Hamas.

On Friday, Palestinian sniper fire targeted a delegation that included Israel's public security minister, Avi Dichter.

Dichter was unhurt, but an aide to the minister was wounded by the gunfire.

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      1.   8 Jewish boys were killed in the Merkaz Harav terrorism attack 17:30  |  Genuine Tosefta 06/04/08
      2.   #1 Can you read? He was 5 years old. 17:41  |  Aphemia 06/04/08
      3.   This is the result of using civilians as human shields 17:44  |  Haim 06/04/08
      4.   Genuine Tosefta is a coward 17:48  |  Mark B. 06/04/08
      5.   #3 Check your facts and then you spelling while you`re at it 18:25  |  Panther Jet 06/04/08
      6.   It was not meant to kill children 18:31  |  Zionist 06/04/08
      7.   A true Haaretz headline 18:34  |  Sidney 06/04/08
      8.   Actually Mark B. # 3, It Is Always An Unknown Whether 18:56  |  Eli 06/04/08
      9.   Just yesterday a Pal child was killed by a qassam that fell short 18:58  |  Allon 06/04/08
      10.   # 3 Mark B...the article says they don`t know 18:58  |  Lynn 06/04/08
      11.   The truth 19:02  |  Dav 06/04/08
      12.   The terrorists are trying to get us to kill their children. 19:06  |  Jean Van Daem 06/04/08
      13.   Anti-Pallywood News: No unbiased info on what killed the child! 19:12  |  A Life 06/04/08
      14.   Tank Shell or Pal Anti-Tank shell. The later more likely. 19:12  |  I 06/04/08
      15.   HAARETZ showing its true Colors Green, White, Red and Black 19:32  |  Gil 06/04/08
      16.   Perseverance 19:35  |  NJ 06/04/08
      17.   # 11 Jean Van Daem, they are not "trying to"....... 20:04  |  Swiss (Dino) 06/04/08
      18.   Yet again infants used as shields by palestinians 20:17  |  Johnny 06/04/08
      19.   Palestinians: IDF shell kills 5-year-old in Gaza 20:59  |  Dror 06/04/08
      20.   17Dino, they have purpously succeeded in killing Jewish children 21:06  |  Rob 06/04/08
      21.   The poor boy in the middle of cross fire 21:08  |  KUTW 06/04/08
      22.   NJ #16 21:10  |  Bruce 06/04/08
      23.   The headline is wrong 21:16  |  KUTW 06/04/08
      24.   The 16-year-old boy must be a so-called militant 21:19  |  KUTW 06/04/08
      25.   Refugee camps in Gaza 21:24  |  KUTW 06/04/08
      26.   Infants used as ...shileds ( ? ) 21:29  |  Alberto 06/04/08
      27.   Interesting bias 21:30  |  Ilan 06/04/08
      28.   The IDF is nothing more a killing machine 22:00  |  Dutch 06/04/08
      29.   # 19 Rob, you never miss an opportunity...... 22:24  |  Swiss (Dino) 06/04/08
      30.   Terrorist Hamas, using women and children as sheilds. 22:29  |  Stephen. 06/04/08
      31.   once again 22:37  |  rm 06/04/08
      32.   once again 22:39  |  rm 06/04/08
      33.   Dutch (#28) Go squat your hypocrisy somewhere else 22:42  |  Gil 06/04/08
      34.   Dutch and the rule of law - not 22:54  |  Elihu 06/04/08
      35.   Killing Children 23:05  |  BRL 06/04/08
      36.   29 Dino, Your biased "neutrality" is transparent enough 23:13  |  Rob 06/04/08
      37.   28. Dutch, hamas et al 23:27  |  KUTW 06/04/08
      38.   War between civilizations - Already started 23:37  |  Johnny 06/04/08
      39.   who`s shell is it, and that sick picture of the corpse 00:13  |  richard s 07/04/08
      40.   Tank Shell or Pal Anti-Tank shell 00:19  |  fares 07/04/08
      41.   Human shields 00:21  |  Angela 07/04/08
      42.   #28 Blame on Hammas 00:26  |  Angela 07/04/08
      43.   #2 Aphemia; Can`t you read? Read over #1`s last statement 00:28  |  Murray of Montreal 07/04/08
      44.   CNN showed picture of the little boy`s body 00:54  |  Aphemia 07/04/08
      45.   question 00:59  |  vik 07/04/08
      46.   to #1 `eight Jewish boys...` 01:00  |  Colin Wright 07/04/08
      47.   29 Dino, Your biased "neutrality" is transparent enough. 01:15  |  Rob 07/04/08
      48.   My deepest, heartfelt condolences 01:16  |  Lynn 07/04/08
      49.   To Bruce #22 01:29  |  NJ 07/04/08
      50.   To: NJ 01:31  |  Fareed 07/04/08
      51.   #36, BRL... 01:37  |  Silvienne 07/04/08
      52.   #33, Dutch, Gil is now a poet... 01:38  |  Silvienne 07/04/08
      53.   # 34. Tooth for a tooth, eye for an eye..paisan, eh! 01:46  |  Stephen. 07/04/08
      54.   Jafar 01:47  |  Leo 07/04/08
      55.   Dutch defaming the IDF 01:54  |  Avrum 07/04/08
      56.   43Colin: 7 boys, all 16, murdered while studying in their school 02:00  |  Rob 07/04/08
      57.   Palestinian terrorists kill 5 year old Palestinian boy 02:24  |  Nechama 07/04/08
      58.   #47 02:25  |  BRL 07/04/08
      59.   War 02:37  |  Marc 07/04/08
      60.   Aphemia #2 02:44  |  Sabra 07/04/08
      61.   Dutcvh you idiot# 16 02:46  |  sabra 07/04/08
      62.   condemnation 02:46  |  Marc 07/04/08
      63.   34 Elihu,Hamas claims that the rockets are a response to the 02:53  |  lakshmi 07/04/08
      64.   #45 Lynn-well said 03:00  |  Aphemia 07/04/08
      65.   28 Dutch,agree with your observation,but as I was saying on the 03:15  |  lakshmi 07/04/08
      66.   Lynn please save the condolences 03:17  |  Genuine Tosefta 07/04/08
      67.   #2 Aphemia - You need the reading lessons 03:22  |  * BEN JABO 07/04/08
      68.   #41 Aphemia - It`s too bad that CNN didn`t show the film 03:25  |  * BEN JABO 07/04/08
      69.   #26 Alberto - It`s not an excuse, it`s a fact 03:29  |  * BEN JABO 07/04/08
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