Disabled Gaza man killed by IDF during house demolition

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Disabled Gaza man killed by IDF during house demolition

By Arnon Regular



A disabled Palestinian man was killed early yesterday morning when the Israel Defense Forces bulldozed a dozen houses in Gaza's Khan Yunis refugee camp, Palestinian sources said.



The IDF claims that the houses were uninhabited and used by gunmen to fire at the neighboring Gush Katif settlement bloc.

The Palestinians said that large numbers of IDF troops entered the west side of the camp with bulldozers, tanks and armored personnel carriers. At about 4 A.M., they said, the tractors destroyed a house in which Mahmoud Halfalla, 70, resided, and the man in a wheelchair did not manage to escape from the house. After the IDF left the area, Halfalla's body was found in the wreckage, the sources said.

Over the last few days, the IDF has entered the Khan Yunis region several times to destroy houses near Gush Katif. While some of the houses were indeed used for terror attacks, Palestinians said, the IDF destroyed dozens of houses, some of them far from the areas where attacks were carried out........

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/450569.html