RAFAH, March 17, 2004, (WAFA)- Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) slaughtered early Wednesday three civilians, including a child, injured others and demolished several houses during an incursion into the refugee camp of Rafah City, security and medical sources said.... Al-Najjar Hospital sources, in Rafah, said three citizens, including a child were instantly killed while 16 others wounded, eight critically, during the Israeli attack on Rafah.... Ali Mossa, director of al-Najjar Hospital, said that Mosbah Mwafi, 15, was killed after being hit with a missile, “his head was separated from his body".... Faraj Abu Jazar, 24, and Mahmoud Abu Nahel, 42, were killed in the Israeli incursion, the two bodies were awfully disfigured especially Abu Nahel's which was headless, Mossa added.... Israeli helicopters fired several missiles on houses killing at least three citizens. The child, Mwafi, lost his head and his body was completely disfigured, witnesses told WAFA.... Security sources told WAFA that about twenty-five Israeli tanks, jeeps and bulldozers stormed the refugee camp, amid intensive gunfire, killing three, injuring scores and demolishing many houses.... IOF bulldozers demolished five houses in block (O) of the camp and opened heavy fire on civilian houses spreading fear among residents mostly women and children, eyewitnesses said.... Israeli soldiers took over a high building, near Zennourayn Mosque of the camp, locked its residents into one room and assaulted them, eyewitnesses said.... "They forced us to vacate our house, beat us and then demolished it. They want to make us homeless, this is what Sharon (Israeli Premier) wants,” a house owner said to WAFA.... Earlier on Tuesday, two civilians were killed in an Israeli air-raid on a house in Gaza City, security and medical sources said.... Al-Shifa medical sources, in Gaza, said that Husni al-Sarafiti, 40, and Nasser Yaseen, 27, were killed after being wounded with shrapnel all over their bodies.... About fourteen civilians were also wounded, including a three-year-old child, and five were critically injured, medical sources added.... Palestinian security sources said that Israeli US-made warplanes hit a house, owned by al-Kharobi family, in the Al-Nasser Street, with four missiles, killing two and injuring fourteen others.... The air-strike came hours after the Israeli cabinet approved a wide-scale military escalation in Gaza Strip.... - -