A Palestinian boy was killed Sunday at pre-dawn and three others were wounded due to Israeli artillery bombardment on Gaza Strip (GS) City of Rafah.
Medical sources told WAFA that Israeli forces, positioned east of GS, fired a missile towards houses in al-Shawka zone, southeast Rafah and killed Ibrahim Ermeilat 13, and wounded three others.
The death toll of the Israeli offensive that started early Thursday into the outskirts of Rafah climbed to 17.
In the West Bank, medical sources said that a Palestinian was killed Sunday by Israeli troops in Jenin. Rashed al-Omary, 25, was an Islamic Jihad activist.
Meanwhile, senior Hamas political leader Dr. Osama Al-Muzaini has affirmed that all negotiations regarding the captured Israeli corporal Gilad Shalit were ceased, noting that Hamas rejected Egyptian suggestions to hand Shalit over to them in exchange for promises to free Palestinian captives later on.
Muzaini also denied media reports that quoted Mohammed Nazzal, Hamas political bureau member, as saying that Israel agreeed in principle to the swap deal, and that differences were on details, norms, and numbers of the proposed prisoners.
"I personally heard the man (Nazzal). He didn’t say that Israel agreed, but what he exactly said was (I think that Israel was ready for a swap deal), so, he was expressing his own analytical view, and not a fact on the ground", said Muzaini in press statements.
He also unveiled that his Movement had turned down Egyptian suggestions of handing the captured soldier to Cairo in exchange for Israeli pledges of releasing "a number of Palestinian captives later on".
"The mediation presented weak offers that Hamas promptly rejected and matters remained at that point without any further progress", Muzaini added.
