"Operation Rainbow"
Children among 20 dead as Israeli army begins huge crackdown on Rafah Chris McGreal in Rafah
Wednesday May 19, 2004
The Guardian
Israeli forces attacked Rafah refugee camp yesterday at the start of an operation to crush Palestinian armed resistance, before a planned fresh wave of house demolitions.
The army killed at least 20 people, including children, one of the highest death tolls in a single day of the present intifada, as it occupied the Tel al-Sultan district on the margins of the camp in preparation for an expected assault on the heart of Rafah.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1219823,00.html Ten die as Israeli tanks fire on peaceful protest Chris McGreal in Rafah
Thursday May 20, 2004
The Guardian
Israeli forces fired tank shells into a peaceful Palestinian protest during the ongoing assault on Rafah refugee camp yesterday, killing at least 10 people - mostly children - and critically wounding many others.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1220749,00.html Israeli troops pull back from Rafah camp Chris McGreal in Rafah
Tuesday May 25, 2004
The Guardian
Israeli forces pulled out of most of the Rafah refugee camp last night amid criticism of the rising civilian death toll and widespread destruction caused by Operation Rainbow.
Israeli military chiefs denied they were abandoning the sweep through the camp in southern Gaza - ostensibly in search of weapons-smuggling tunnels - which was billed as the operation to break Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the area.
Senior officers described the pullback as "taking a deep breath" before continuing the assault. "The operation will carry on as long as we stay there," said Major General Dan Harel, the Israeli army commander in the area. "It will go in different intensities."
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Israel has been shaken by international criticism of the attacks, particularly after a tank fired into a peaceful march, killing 10 people. It has also faced domestic concern about the raid, after the extent of the devastation was revealed by the army's partial withdrawal from the al-Brazil neighbourhood.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1224106,00.html "Operation Days of Penitence"
23 killed in Israeli raid on refugee camp Chris McGreal in Jabaliya, Gaza
Friday October 1, 2004
The Guardian
Israeli forces killed at least 23 Palestinians yesterday on one of the bloodiest days of the intifada, as the army made a rare push into the heart of a heavily defended Gaza refugee camp.
A single tank shell claimed seven lives, many of them said by witnesses to be unarmed teenagers. But doctors said it was difficult to tell because the bodies were blown apart.
More than 100 people were wounded, including children, as Palestinian insurgents put up prolonged resistance to the attack on Jabaliya, a Hamas and Islamic Jihad stronghold.
Israel's defence minister, Shaul Mofaz, said he intended to widen the army's assault beyond the camp, just north of Gaza City, after Wednesday's Hamas rocket attack that killed two children, aged two and four, in the Israeli town of Sderot.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,1316951,00.html 50,000 trapped by Israeli assault on Gaza Chris McGreal in Jabaliya refugee camp
Tuesday October 5, 2004
The Guardian
Israeli forces have demolished the homes of hundreds of Palestinians, bulldozed swaths of agricultural land and destroyed infrastructure in their bloodiest assault on the Gaza Strip in years.
More than 70 people have died in Operation Days of Penitence, launched in northern Gaza six days ago after a Hamas rocket attack killed two Israeli children. The Israeli human rights group B'Tselem said that the dead included 31 civilians. Nineteen were under 18.
Most of the nine people killed yesterday were Palestinian fighters, but a teenage girl was among the dead, shot in her home. In southern Gaza Israeli forces killed a four-year-old boy in Khan Yunis refugee camp, where several Palestinian children have been shot dead in recent weeks.
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