Israeli gunfire killed an 11-year-old Palestinian girl in the Gaza Strip on Thursday as she opened a window in her house, her relatives said.
Nada Madi, 11, was shot in southern Gaza Strip's Rafah refugee camp. Her family said the gunfire came from an Israeli army outpost on the Egyptian border about a kilometer away and that the shooting was unprovoked.
Earlier, Israeli troops removed an outpost in Hebron Thursday which Jewish settlers erected to stake a claim to land near the site of a Palestinian attack which killed 12 settlers and security men.
Also in the West Bank, the Israeli army raided the city of Tulkarem and demolished the family home of a Palestinian accused of killing five people at an Israeli kibbutz last month.
The Israeli army and settlement officials said troops moved in before dawn on several caravans established without government authorization on the route connecting Hebron with the adjacent settlement of Kiryat Arba, and dismantled them by 0500 GMT.
A Defense Ministry statement said the caravans constituted "an illegal outpost on private Palestinian land."
In Tulkarem, Palestinian witnesses said some 60 Israeli armored vehicles rolled in overnight, backed by attack helicopters. Israeli engineers razed the family apartment of Sirhan Sirhan, a man whose whereabouts are unknown and whom Israel accuses of a November 10 attack on Metzer communal farm, in which five people died.
Palestinian security officials disputed Sirhan's involvement, saying he had no known affiliations.
Palestinian witnesses said Sirhan's father was arrested, Reuters reported. (Albawaba.com)
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