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PIJ member shot dead during Rafah funeral; Hamas police accused
A member of Islamic Jihad named Hussein Al-Buji was killed on Wednesday after fighting erupted during a funeral procession for an Islamic Jihad leader wounded in similar clashes in the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.Islamic Jihad leader Rami Salama died on Wednesday of wounds he sustained during clashes with Hamas-affiliated forces on October 21st. A fifty-year-old woman was also killed in the fighting that day. Islamic Jihad accused police affiliated with the de facto Gaza Strip government of firing on the procession after children threw stones at the Tal Sultan police station while the mourning Palestinians were passing. The Interior Ministry of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip government denied that their officers were involved in the shooting, asserting that Buji was shot by someone in the funeral procession. Interior Ministry officials said the police at the Tal Sultan station had strict orders to avoid confrontation with the funeral procession. The International Middle East Media Center reported that two other people were wounded after the Islamic Jihad members traded gunfire with police. Posted by: 2007-11-07 |
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