Teenage girl martyred in Gaza raid

A Palestinian girl was martyred and eight other people were injured in an Israeli incursion into Beit Lahya, north of Gaza Strip, early Saturday.

Eyewitnesses said a large number of Israeli vehicles and tanks penetrated into Beit Lahya amid heavy fire shooting, while military Israeli crafts fired rockets at targets in the town.

Witnesses said that Mariam Mariam Abu Marouf, 14, was shot dead by Israeli forces that surrounded her family's home and that her father, Hasan Abu Marouf was arrested after the forces broke into the house which was damaged gravely by the heavy fire.

Zionist regime's air crafts conducted three raids, firing rockets, one of which targeted a home and a group of Palestinian resistance activists on Al-Shayma area in the town, they said. The attack started a fire in the house, they added.

Special Israeli forces took part in the incursion, and broke into many Palestinian homes, arresting an unknown number of Palestinians and taking them to Israel, they pointed out.

Meanwhile, Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement announced that its members and activists from other groups clashed with the Israeli forces that intruded into the town.

It said that the forces surrounded a number of Palestinian homes and that the Israeli air forces fired missiles at Beit Lahya, injuring several activists