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To: i-node who wrote (156693)	12/24/2002 11:45:23 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580597

Just over the news.......North Korea is threatening a catastrophe against the US.

To: i-node who wrote (156693)	12/24/2002 12:00:07 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1580597

The Seattle Times Nation & World: Friday, December 20, 2002 Palestinian child, 11, shot dead at window By Laura King Los Angeles Times JERUSALEM — An 11-year-old Palestinian girl was fatally shot as she opened her bedroom window yesterday, her family said. She is the third child younger than 16 to be killed in as many days in the Gaza Strip. Relatives of the girl, Nada Mahdi, said she had just returned from school to her home in the Rafah refugee camp and opened the window to watch the funeral procession of a 15-year-old Palestinian boy who was killed by gunfire the previous day. A stray bullet struck her in the chest, and she died half an hour later at Rafah Hospital, according to hospital officials. It was not clear whether the fatal shot was fired by a Palestinian gunman or an Israeli soldier. Her family said the bullet came from the direction of an Israeli army observation post about a quarter-mile away. The army said it had exchanged fire at about that time with Palestinian gunmen hiding in an abandoned building, according to spokeswoman Capt. Sharon Feingold, who said she had no information about the girl's death. Rafah, which lies close to the Egyptian border on the southern tip of Gaza, has been the scene of daily gunbattles between Israelis and Palestinians. Israel says the border zone is a stronghold of Palestinian militant groups who use a network of underground tunnels to smuggle weapons into Gaza. The area close to the frontier, in particular the Rafah refugee camp, is very densely populated, and Palestinian civilians often find themselves caught up in the fighting. The slain girl lived in a street that was laid out like most others in the camp, a tight-packed jumble of cement-block houses sharing common walls and courtyards, with only an occasional narrow alleyway running between them. Her family said gunfire echoes through their neighborhood at all hours of the day and night. Feingold, the Israeli army spokeswoman, blamed Palestinian gunmen for using the refugee camp and its environs as a staging ground for attacks. She said that in the 48 hours before the girl's death, there had been 16 separate shooting incidents in the area. "It's a constant battle zone," she said. The two sides gave conflicting versions of the deaths of two boys in the two preceding days. Alaa Al-Sdoodi, 15, was shot and killed on the street in Rafah on Wednesday. The army said its troops were under attack at the time, and that a soldier was wounded in the exchange. On Tuesday night, in the Khan Younis refugee camp in central Gaza, Jawad Zidan, 16, was fatally shot. His family said he was sleeping inside his home at the time; the army described him as a gunman. Near the West Bank town of Jenin, an Israeli tank ran into a Palestinian minibus, killing a passenger. Witnesses said it appeared to be an accident, but the driver said the tank hit the vehicle intentionally. The military had no comment. EDIT. A suicide ramming? In the West Bank town of Tulkarem, troops demolished the home of a Palestinian they say carried out an attack last month on an Israeli communal farm in which five people were killed. The alleged gunman remains at large. In overnight raids throughout the West Bank, troops rounded up more than 20 Palestinians suspected of involvement in attacks on Israelis, the military said. During Israel's forays into the West Bank in recent months, the army has detained thousands of Palestinians in roundups that government officials say have slowed, but not halted, attacks on Israel. Also yesterday, a photographer for the news agency Agence France-Presse was beaten by Israeli border police at a checkpoint near Nablus, the agency said. Information from The Associated Press is included in this report. Copyright © 2002 The Seattle Times Company