Day 54 : Monday 20.11.2000
Two Israeli settlers were killed and ten others were wounded when a bomb
went off outside a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli helicopter gunships attacked for more then three hours a host of
Palestinian civilian and security targets throughout the Gaza Strip, caused
as many as 150 casualties and inflicted heavy damage to security and
civilian buildings as well as telecommunication facilities. Israeli
gunboats also joined the attack, firing missiles and artillery shells at
buildings in Yasser Arafat's headquarters.
The Israeli occupation authorities are barring the delivery of a medicine
shipment donated by a number of Arab and Islamic countries to the
Palestinian authority in Gaza.
Here are some photos of today :
The sky over Gaza city is illuminated as a rocket fired by the Israeli
helicopter gunship explodes in the city centre of Gaza. Israeli helicopters
fired missiles at targets in Gaza City in response to a bomb attack on a
Jewish settlers bus in which two Israelis were killed earlier in the day.
The helicopters fired at least 11 missiles from around 6 p.m. (1600 GMT) in
areas near Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's seaside office and the
headquarters of his Fatah faction, this aerial assault countined to more
then three hours. (Photo 1)
Palestinian stone throwers take cover behind a makeshift barricade made of
a wrecked car during clashes with Israeli soldiers on the outskirts of the
West Bank town of Ramallah. (Photo 2)
Jewish settlers look at the damage to an Israeli bus peppered with
schrapnel holes near the Kfar Darom Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip,
following a bomb explosion in front of the bus. Two Israeli settlers were
killed in the roadside blast and nine injured. (Photo 3)
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Gaza aerial assault. (Photo 1)
Ramallah clashes. (Photo 2)
Bus attack in Gaza. (Photo 3)
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