Friday 16 January 2009

Palestinian resistance repels IOF troops in Tel Al-Islam

[ 16/01/2009 - 05:49 PM ]



Gaza, (PIC)-- Fighters of the Palestinian resistance factions led by the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas Movement, have succeeded Friday in pushing the invading IOF troops out of Tel A-Islam suburb, west of Gaza city, after fierce clashes in the area.

According to sources in the Palestinian resistance, the Palestinian fighters destroyed a number of Israeli armored vehicles despite the intensive Israeli air, land, and sea strikes on the populated suburb.

The headquarters of the UNRWA in Gaza Strip and a local hospital where around 500 people, including hundreds of patients, were inside were bombed by the Israeli warplanes alleging they were used by the Palestinian fighters to shoot at the IOF troops. The UNRWA and the hospital shrugged off the allegations and accused Israel of fabricating them.

Local sources confirmed to the PIC correspondent that the IOF troops were forced out of the suburb early Friday as a result of the fierce Palestinian resistance. Around 23 bodies of Palestinian civilians, including women and children were recovered from under the rubbles of their homes in the aftermath of the Israeli pullout.

The sources also confirmed that the retreating IOF troops kidnapped a number of Palestinian civilians and used them as human shields to cover their retreat and to claim later that they have captured resistance fighters.

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