WRAP Two injured in Beit Lahiya, two car blasts in Gaza City
(25 Nov 2006) Zeitoun neighbourhood, Gaza City 1. Wide of emergency vehicles and Palestinians gathering at car bombing site 2. Crowd of Palestinians 3. Debris being put to one side 4. Various of damaged car being turned over 5. Wide of crowd gathered at side 6. Ambulance arriving at hospital 7. Body on stretcher being -brought inside hospital 8. Palestinians waiting outside hospital Rimala neighbourhood, Gaza City 8. Various of people gathering at site of different car bombing 9. Ambulance at site Near Jebaliya, Gaza Strip 10. Wide of street (UPSOUND: gunfire) 11. Two Palestinian boys running 12. Israeli tank moving East of Jebaliya, Gaza Strip 13. Running shot towards burnt out car that was hit by Israeli tank shell 14. Close-up interior of car burning 15. Various of Palestinians gathered around car 16. Various of damaged building 17. Ambulance driving by Al Awada Hospital, Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip 18. Exterior of "al Awada" hospital 19. Injured Palestinian laying in bed in hospital Camal Adwan Hospital, Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip 21. Medical staff tending to injured Ayman Abu Mahadi on stretcher 22. Ayman Abu Mahadi being stretchered out of room 23. Ayman Abu Mahadi being brought into ambulance (to undergo surgery in different hospital) STORYLINE: Blasts ripped apart two cars in the Gaza City area on Saturday. Medical officials said one person was killed and several passers-by were wounded. The Israeli military said it ordered an airstrike that hit a vehicle carrying Hamas militants involved in weapons production. It had no further details, and said it was checking into the report about a second blast. The Islamic Jihad militant group said the first explosion hit one its cars near Islamic University in Gaza City, but claimed that the members of their group were not inside at the time, having left it idling while they went to buy some food. Two passers-by were wounded, hospital officials said. Police called on people in the area to leave, for fear an explosive device might be inside the vehicle. The second blast blew up a Volkswagen minivan carrying two unidentified people. Hospital officials said one of the passengers was killed, and the fate of the second was unknown. An unknown number of passers-by were injured. Palestinian security said the car was struck by a missile fired from an Israeli drone. Also on Saturday a Israeli tank shell struck a house and a car near the northern Gaza town of Jebaliya on Saturday, slightly injuring two militants and a 14-year-old boy, medics said. The car was struck just east of Jebaliya. There were no serious injuries reported, although the two militants were later brought to Al Awada Hospital in nearby Beit Lahiya for treatment. A spokesman for the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) said the military had aimed and fired at militants launching rockets toward Israel. In a separate, earlier incident, a 12-year-old boy was shot and critically injured in Jebaliya, while standing outside his house, hospital officials said. Ayman Abu Mahadi, was shot in the head during a fire exchange between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian militants in the area, but the army said it had no no information on this incident. He was brought into Camal Adwan in Beit Lahiya, before being transferred to a different hospital where he was expected to undergo surgery. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
