At approximately 5:30 a.
m.
on Saturday 6 July 2002, the Israeli Occupation Forces murdered a woman and her daughter when they opened fire on their car on the sea road, south of Gaza City.
Two persons from the same family were taken to hospital in shock after the shooting.
Medical sources reported that Randa Khalid al-Hindi, aged 44, and her two-year-old baby, Nour, from Khan Yunis died from bullet wounds to the head.
The Fieldwork Unit at Al Mezan reported that the family was on their way back from Beit Lahia, where they had attended a wedding.
They were driving back in the early morning hours in order to pass the checkpoint north of Khan Yunis.
Eyewitnesses said the area had been completely calm when the incident took place.
A day earlier, Israeli forces murdered Fawzi Fahmi Shurab, a Palestinian security officer aged 44, from Khan Yunis.
Israeli military forces penetrated area “A” in eastern Khan Younis at midnight on Friday, 5 July 2002.
They withdrew from the area after half an hour.
In a separate incident, Palestinian civilians clashed with Israeli forces positioned at a military point east of Gaza City.
Two persons were wounded by machine-gun fire and taken to hospital, sources at the AL WAFA hospital said.
Talaat Ziad Abu Asir, age 22, and Maaruf Attallah Qashtar, age 28, were treated and released.
Al Mezan Center for Human Rights remains deeply concerned with Israel’s ongoing crimes against the people and land of the OPTs.
The Center calls upon the international community to stop the politicization of Palestinian suffering and to fulfill its moral and legal obligations to intervene on their behalf.
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