Occupied Jerusalem: 10 December, 2002 (IAP News)

Israeli soldiers on Monday killed another Palestinian mother in downtown Nablus, the second in less than 24 hours.

Hospital sources said 25-year-old Rehana Hesham Alkilani, was killed and her husband, Jalal Alarda, and mother-in-law, Khadija Alarda were seriously injured with shrapnel in the head and hand when Israeli soldiers manning an armored personnel carriers opened fire on a taxi cab in the heart of Nablus.

On Sunday, Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip murdered Nahla Aqel, 42, and injured her three children and another woman in Rafah at the southern edge of the Gaza Strip.

The occupation army said nothing about the two murders other than repeating the routine dismissive statement that “the incident was being investigated.”

Elsewhere in the West Bank, Israeli occupation soldiers shot and killed a mentally-handicapped Palestinian man, Basel Mustafa Koa’, aged 28, of the Biet Leed village, to the east of Tulkarem was killed Monday as IOF opened fire instantly, causing critical injury to Koa’s pelvis, leading eventually to his fatal death.

Also in the Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, medical sources said Ahmad Abdelkarim Almajayda, aged 17, died of wounds he sustained on September, 2002 as IOF opened fire randomly on him in the Araysha neighborhood.

A forth Palestinian, aged 47 years, also succumbed to his illness while being transferred to hospital after Israeli soldiers manning a roadblock refused to allow the ambulance carrying him to transfer to proceed to hospital.

Since, the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation and apartheid more than two years ago, over 2000 Palestinians, a fourth of them minors and children, were killed by the Israeli army and para-military Jewish terrorists.

In the same period, nearly 680 Israelis have been killed in the conflict.