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To: rich4eagle who wrote (279335)	7/23/2002 10:09:43 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Israeli F16s Attack Gaza City, 15 Palestinians Dead, 145 Wounded Fifteen Palestinian civilians were killed, nine of which were children and three were women, while 145 others were wounded late last night in an Israeli jet strike on Gaza City, medical sources and witnesses said. An F-16 fighter plane rocketed a building in the city in an attempt to assassinate the Gaza head of the armed wing of the Hamas movement, Salah Shehade, who is believed to be one of the three adult men who died in the carnage. Witnesses said the warplane fired a missile that leveled five houses in a Gaza City neighborhood. CAIR reported that two of the slaughtered civilians were babies aged between two months and 18 months. Five children aged between three years and five years also died as well as an 11-year-old boy, CAIR reported. A 15-year-old girl who was killed in the attack turned out to be the youngest daughter of Salah Shehade who was with her father at their house when the assault took place, according to BBC Radio. Earlier Report GAZA CITY:12 Palestinians were killed and over 140, mostly women and children, wounded Monday evening when Israeli warplanes attacked a residential area in the Gaza City. Among the victims was Saleh Shehade, 50, a top Palestinian activist. Tens of Thousands of Gazens rushed to the street protesting the Israeli cruelty, and a state of shock has engulfed the occupied Palestinian territories. The attack came one day after the Palestinian group Hamas announced it’s willingness to stop bombing Israeli targets, in exchange for the withdrawal of the Israeli army from recently occupied West Bank cities, and the end of the assassination policy carried out by the right-wing government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The offer was made by Sheik Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of Hamas during an interview with Al Jazeera satellite television. The Israeli response however came in a different form than expected. Witnesses to Monday's killings said that an Israeli F-16 warplane fired several missiles at Palestinian homes, apparently targeting the house of Saleh Shehade, a Hamas activist in Gaza, reducing his home and several others around it to rubble. Officials at a local hospital say as many as 140 people have been wounded. “They (the Israelis) are so cruel, so merciless. Why don’t they just leave us alone. Leave our land, get out of our lives,” a Palestinian man wept as he tried to help in the rescue efforts.