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To: StormRider who wrote (2515)	12/7/2002 5:59:12 PM
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ISRAELI RAID IN GAZA KILLS 10 PALESTINIANS U.N. Condemns Killing of 2 Employees Molly Moore, Washington Post, 12/7/02 washingtonpost.com JERUSALEM, Dec. 6 -- Israeli military forces launched a tank and helicopter attack on a refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip early this morning, killing 10 Palestinians, including two local U.N. employees, according to the Israeli military and Palestinian officials…Palestinian officials said most were civilians, including a U.N. school teacher who died when shrapnel pierced her neck while she was inside her home. At least 10 other Palestinians were wounded, according to hospital authorities. The attack, which occurred at the close of Eid al-Fitr, the final day of the Ramadan month of fasting, drew criticism from U.N. officials as well as from the leader of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat. "This loss of civilian lives of people working for a humanitarian U.N. agency, is completely unacceptable," Peter Hansen, who heads the U.N. Relief and Works Agency in Gaza and the West Bank, said from Geneva. "I must condemn what appears to be the indiscriminate use of heavy firepower in a densely populated area…"