Gunmen killed three young children of a senior Palestinian intelligence officer Monday in a drive-by shooting on a street crowded with hundreds of school children. In the attack, the gunmen pumped dozens of bullets into a car carrying the children of intelligence officer Baha Balousheh, a member of Fatah movement.
According to the AP, a decade ago, Balousheh was a lead interrogator in a crackdown on Hamas movement. Three of Balousheh's children, ranging in age from six to 10, were killed, in addition to their driver, hospital officials said. Four more people were injured in the attack on Palestine Street. Baha Balousheh was not in the area.
Dozens of Palestinian police in the area where trying to calm the children and help them locate their parents. Hundreds of anxious parents rushed to Gaza City's Shifa Hospital to get word on their children.
On his part, President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the crime. He described it as "inhuman and ugly," demanding the security apparatus to work hardly in order to unveil the murderer and present them into justice.
This incident came a day after gunmen shot at the interior minister's convoy in Gaza. Interior Minister Saeed Seyam, a senior Hamas leader, was unharmed in that attack.
