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IOF Bulldozer Destroys House in Rafah


RAFAH, March 30, 2004, (WAFA) - Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Sunday overnight destroyed one Palestinian house in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah, witnesses and security sources said.... Witnesses told WAFA that Israeli armoured vehicles and bulldozers rolled into the neighbourhood of al-Salam, and demolished a two-story-house, owned by Samir Nasrallah, and razed agricultural land.... Nasrallah's house has been damaged as it repeatedly came under Israeli heavy gunfire.... In March 16, last year, an Israeli bulldozer crushed US peace activist Rachel Corrie, as she tried to prevent it from demolishing the house at that time. The house was destroyed overnight.... "Nasrallah's house been subjected to several attacks. Last year Rachel Corrie was murdered near it," eyewitness told WAFA reporter.... Palestinian security sources said Israeli troops moved 200 meters into the Palestinian-controlled land in the al-Salam neighbourhood, near the borderline with Egypt.... Israeli military vehicles opened intensive heavy gunfire at the houses while a huge bulldozer turned the Nasrallah's house into debris, and razed an agricultural land owned by Awad al-Sha'er, security official said....

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