Israel Bulldozes House and Kills 70 Year Old Man Inside

national | miscellaneous | news report Sunday December 01, 2002 21:19 by Eoin Meany xoin at hotmail dot com

Israeli make inscursions into the Gaza Strip, demolishing homes and killing two people, one a 70 year old man.

Israeli Troops demolished a house with a 70 year old man, Ashur Dab, still inside. The man died in the rubble.

In other incidents, the house of the family of a suicide bomber was bulldozed, six years after the incident took place. The Israeli Army refused to say why they demolished the house.

A man was also shot dead and a total of three houses were demolished when the IDF invaded Beit Lahiya, near Gaza City, backed by around 30 tanks. They fired machine guns and tank shells and also destroyed the town's power transformer.