State of Palestine Ministry of Health Date: July 18, 2001 Israeli Abache Helicopters Assassinate Four Palestinian Citizens Israeli Occupation Forces committed yesterday, a new crime against the Palestinian citizens at Bethlehem where four people were martyred and ten were moderately injured. This occurred when Israeli Abache Helicopters bombed Sa'ada family's house, which is located at El-Mawaleh mountain at the southern point of Bethlehem City. Eyewitnesses mentioned that the Israeli Abache Helicopters shelled the room in which the four martyrs were sitting safely with their relatives. They indicated that the bombardment resulted in a huge damage in the room. The four martyrs are Omar Ahmed Mohammed Sa'ada (45 years old) who was exposed to a bomb directly, his brother Eshaq Sa'ada (52 years old), Taha Esa El- Arooje (32 years old), and Mohammed Saleh Sa'ada (28 years old). **** Date: July 17, 2001 Ministry of Health Receives the First Batch of the Indian Consignment of Supports Palestinian Ministry of Health received, yesterday, the first batch of the Indian medical and nutritional supports. Mr. Rakesh Komar , Indian Deputy Foreign Minister, expressed his worry about the on-going Israeli aggressive attacks against the Palestinian people. Mr. Komar handed the first consignment of support to Dr. Riyad A-Zanoun, Palestinian Minister of Health, in the presence of the Indian representative at the Palestinian Authority, and other several persons in charge at the general premises of Pharmacology at Gaza. Dr. Ziyad Sha'at, director general of Palestinian Pharmacology, delivered a speech in which he welcomed the Indian Deputy Foreign Minister and praised the strong bilateral relationships between Palestine and India. Dr. Zanoun asserted that the relationship between Palestine and India in all fields goes back to more than 50 years. He expressed his happiness to receive such a consignment, which includes necessary medical equipment used in surgeries especially in the state of emergency that the Palestinian people undergo nowadays. On the other hand, Indian Deputy Foreign Minister asserted that an Indian medical team would visit Palestine during the coming period to offer medical support to the Palestinian people and perform complex surgeries to Palestinian patients and injured. _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
