The body of three-year-old boy Tawfeq Saaed Bereka is carried through the streets of Rafah refugee camp in the South Gaza strip October 13, 2002, surrounded by Palestinian flags. He was crushed to death after zionist soldiers bulldozed his family home. Eyewitnesses said an army bulldozer suddenly bulldozed a shack where a family of six people were asleep without giving the dwellers a chance to escape.

Occupied Jerusalem: 13 October, 2002 (IAP News)

The Israeli occupation army kept up its genocidal repression of Palestinian civilians throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip, killing more civilians and destroying Palestinian fields, orchards and infrastructure.

In the latest killing, an Israeli army bulldozer crushed to death a Palestinian toddler, a three-year-old child, after bulldozing his family home in Rafah at the southern edge of the Gaza Strip.

Eyewitnesses said an army bulldozer suddenly bulldozed a shack where a family of six people were asleep without giving the dwellers a chance to escape.

A child was crushed to death while remaining family members sustained disparate injuries.

More than 20 other Palestinians were also injured when Israeli soldiers manning armored personnel carriers opened fire indiscriminately on Palestinian homes throughout Rafah.

Israeli troops rampaging in the West Bank and Gaza killed at least five Palestinian civilians during the past 48 hours.

The latest victims of Israeli repression, which many Palestinians and human rights observers are beginning to describe as “genocide and holocaust,” include a housewife in Nablus, a school boy in Tulkarm, and worker, in addition to the toddler in Rafah.

Palestinians say the Israeli army deliberately targets Palestinian children and civilians in order to push large numbers of Palestinians to leave their ancestral homeland.