» Four Palestinian Fighters Killed East of Rafah
IMEMC News | April 14, 2018 7:43 PM
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Four people were killed and several others injured, on Saturday, in what initially appeared to be an Israeli artillery attack targeting a group of Palestinians who were riding a three-wheeled “tuk tuk” motorcycle (rickshaw) east of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. Other accounts indicated that the four died in a training accident.
The four were identified as Amjad Qartous, 18, Ayed Hamaydeh , 23, Hesham Kallab, 18, and Hesham Abdul-Al , 22. All four were from from the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah.
Islamic Jihad claimed the four young men as fighters in their armed wing, and published a photo of the four wearing the uniform of Islamic Jihad.
Initial reports from the PNN stated that Israeli artillery shelled the eastern border of Rafah, targeting a group of young men who were moving rubber tires near the eastern border of the city.
But a later report indicted that the four men may have been killed by an explosive that went off in a training accident.
The four deaths follow a day of protests at various places along the Israel-Gaza border, in which one Palestinian was killed and 969 Palestinians were wounded .