IOF Kills Three Palestinians Northeast of Beit Hanoun

6 September 2012

At approximately 7:70 am on Thursday 6 September 2012, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) opened fire three Palestinians who were in Wadi Ad-Douh area about 200 meters away from the separation fence between Gaza Strip and Israel northeast of Beit Hanoun.
As a result, three of them were injured.
 At approximately 8:30 am on the same day, the IOF allowed an ambulance from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society to enter the area, after coordination between the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Israeli side.
 When the ambulance was about 350 meters away from the injured persons, the IOF opened fire.
The ambulance drivers left the area immediately.
Young men and women tried to access that area, but the IOF opened fire at them.
At approximately 9:30 am on the same day, the ambulance managed to carry the three of them.
Two of them were killed and the other was pronounced dead on arrival to Beit Hanoun Hospital.
Al Mezan has identified them as follows: ·         Ihab Sami Ahmed Az-Za’aneen, 26, ·         His brother Akram, 21; and ·         Tareq Suhail Al Kafarna, 22.
Medical sources reported that they sustained bullet and artillery shell wounds.