Girl, 11, third victim of Israeli missile strike
In the Gaza Strip, 11-year-old Sana Daour died of injuries sustained last week in an Israeli missile strike, hospital officials said. The girl became the third victim of that attack, which also killed two other bystanders, but missed its target, a Hamas fugitive.
In a strike on Monday, Israeli helicopters fired missiles at a car carrying three Hamas militants, killing one and critically wounding a second, while the third got away. Twenty-five bystanders were also hurt. The dead man was identified as Khader Houssre, 36, a Hamas member.
In all, 15 Palestinians, including 11 Hamas members and four bystanders, have died in six missile attacks on Hamas targets in the past two weeks, part of a tough new policy adopted after a Hamas suicide bombing killed 21 people on a Jerusalem bus last month.
A Palestinian man was also killed by army fire at a West Bank checkpoint. The Israeli army said the man got out of a car and drew a handgun, trying to shoot soldiers who opened fire and killed him.
Meanwhile, in Israel, a landmark report on Israel’s treatment of its large Arab minority continued to dominate public debate.
The 831-page report concluded that successive Israeli governments discriminated against Arab citizens, and that the minority’s growing frustration was a key trigger in October 2000 riots in which 13 Arabs were killed by police fire.
The report, issued by a commission of inquiry after three years of study, marked the first time in Israel’s 55-year history that a state-appointed body criticised government policy toward the Arab minority in such a sweeping way.
The report also said some Arab leaders in Israel encouraged violence, and that police used excessive force in quelling crowds that took to the streets at the time in a show of support with the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation.
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