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Tens of Thousands Protest Killings in Nablus

HeadlineJun 28, 2004

In Israel, Hamas has carried out today what is being reported as its first ever fatal rocket attack on Israeli soil. The attack killed two Israelis in the southern town of Sderot including a three-year-old boy on his way to nursery school. Numerous attacks were staged by both Israel and Palestinian groups over the weekend. In Nablus, 30,000 Palestinians took to the streets Sunday for the funeral of seven Palestinian militants who had been killed by Israeli forces. The dead included Nayef Abu Sharekh, the head of Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades in the West Bank and two other senior commanders. Meanwhile in Gaza, six Israeli soldiers were wounded after members of Hamas set off a bomb underneath an army post in the southern Gaza Strip. Soon after Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians including a 13-year-old boy in the town of Khan Yunis.A nd in the Gaza town of Rafah, a delegation from the British charity Christian Aid reported they were shot at by Israeli forces last week as they visited the town on a fact-finding mission.

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