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IOF Shells Bedouin Village with Artillery, Injuring Two Children

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3 June 2009

At around12.
15am, on 3 June 2009, the IOF, stationed on the northern borderline, fired four artillery shells that landed in the north of the Bedouin village 'Um An-Nassir'.
This attack injured Ahmed Tawfiq Abu Hashish, 17, with shrapnel to his left arm, and Saleh Ahmed Al-Madani, 17, with shrapnel to his neck.
The two children were transported to Kamal Odwan hospital to undergo medical treatment.
 The latter, then, was referred to Shifa hospital as he sustained serious injury.
 According to Kamal Odwan hospital, the shrapnel were nails, which indicate that the bombs fired were nail bombs.