Official PA Website Claims Terrorists Killed by IDF When In Truth They Blew
Selves Up
Dr. Aaron Lerner 23 June 2003

#1 The Truth:

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) 23 June - Four Palestinian militants were killed
when a bomb they were planting went off in northern Gaza, and Israel's prime
minister indicated that Israel will keep targeting militants for death
despite international peace efforts.

At first, Palestinian security officials said Israeli tanks fired shells
late Sunday at a group of militants from the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades,
affiliated with the mainstream Fatah, killing three men and wounding four
others in the town of Beit Hanoun. Another died later in a hospital, doctors
said.

However, later loudspeaker trucks drove through the area saying that the
four died while ``fulfilling their national duty,'' a phrase used in the
past to announce accidental deaths. Israeli military sources said on
condition of anonymity that the militants were on their way to plant a bomb
and it went off prematurely.]

#2 The PA Lie:

Four Palestinians Extra-judicially Killed by IOF
Woman Shot Dead in Rafah
http://www.palestine-pmc.com/details.asp?cat=1&id=859
23/06/2003

Palestine Media Center- (PMC)[Official arm of the PA]

Despite international condemnation of Israel’s assassination policy, Israeli
Occupation Forces (IOF) assassinated four Palestinians in the northern Gaza
Strip town of Beit Hanoun, less than 48 hours after an IOF undercover unit
extra-judicially killed a top Hamas activist in the southern West Bank city
of Hebron.

The killing of the four activists came few hours after IOF shot dead a
Palestinian woman in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, Palestinian
medical and security sources said.

Palestine security sources and witnesses said that an Israeli tank opened
fire at a house in the re-occupied town of Beit Hanoun, killing four
Palestinians and wounding three others.

The four victims were identified as Faker al-Za’aneen, 20, Mohammad
al-Basioni, 23, Khaled al-Shinbari, 21, and Rushdi al-Za’aneen. They were
members of the Fatah faction, Palestinian sources confirmed.

Israel has assassinated dozens of Palestinians since the beginning of the
Intifada against 36-year old Israeli occupation in September 2000; many of
the victims were bystanders, including women and children.

On Saturday, an IOF under coverunit assassinated unarmed Abdullah Qawasmi,
the top Hamas activist in the West Bank, as he was leaving one of Hebron’s
mosques after evening prayers.

He was a father to six children, relatives said.

Qawasmi’s assassination was seen as a blow to the efforts, carried out by
the international community, to restore the peace process and implement the
“roadmap.”

Hamas officials threatened to revenge the killing of the group’s
high-ranking activist.

The Palestinian cabinet, meeting in Ramallah Saturday, condemned Israel’s
assassination policy, adding that the Israeli policy is a violation of the
“roadmap” peace plan.

Meanwhile, IOF killed a Palestinian woman in the southern Gaza Strip town of
Rafah, Palestinian medical sources said.

Su’ad al-Bahdari, 27, was shot dead by IOF soldiers near the illegal Israeli
settlement of “Morag.”

Israeli sources earlier claimed that IOF have killed an unidentified
Palestinian man who was trying to sneak into the settlement.

Medical sources said the victim was shot by live bullets in the head and
chest, causing her immediate death.

Also in Rafah, an 18-year-old Palestinian was wounded when IOF soldiers
opened fire at him in al-Brazil neighborhood, east of the town.

Elsewhere in the Gaza Strip, IOF shot and wounded a 40-year-old woman at
Salah Al-Dein Street, which links the northern and southern Gaza Strip
together.

Meanwhile, IOF troops continued imposing curfew on the southern West Bank
city of Hebron for the second day, witnesses said, adding that the city was
also completely sealed off.