RAFAH, Gaza Strip(Islamweb & Agencies) - The Palestinian Islamic Resistance group Hamas threatened to unleash a news bombing campaign against Israel in revenge for the killing of an 11-year-old Palestinian boy who was buried in the Gaza Strip on Sunday. (Read photo caption below). ``There are 10 martyrs waiting inside Israel. They are ready at any moment to get revenge on the Israeli killers,'' shouted members of Hamas's military wing during Khalil Mughrabi's funeral. He was killed by Israeli occupation troops on Saturday.
``If the Israelis have big bombs, we have human bombs,'' they chanted through loudspeakers during the funeral at Rafah, along Gaza's border with Egypt, near where the child was shot dead.
Mughrabi became the 17th Palestinian killed since a cease-fire drawn up by U.S. CIA Director George Tenet was supposed to have taken effect on June 13. Nine Israelis have also been killed since the truce was brokered.
Palestinian Resistance men briefly opened fire at Israeli occupation soldiers at the border as the boy's body was carried home for his grieving mother to say farewell. Palestinian sources said a child was hit by Israeli fire during stone-throwing clashes in Rafah after the funeral. .
The Israeli occupation army claimed Palestinians had fired shots and thrown more than 60 grenades at the army post on the border with Egypt overnight, and at another post guarding internationally illegal Israeli settlers in southern Gaza.
Near the internationally illegal Jewish settlement of Shilo in the West Bank, Palestinians fired at an Israeli bus late on Sunday, wounding a woman passenger, a settler spokesman said.
TARGETING PALESTINIAN ACTIVISTS
Palestinian officials reported that an Israeli undercover squad had kidnapped Hamas activist Ayoub Sharwai in the predominantly Palestinian West Bank town of Hebron-Al-Khalil, from an area supposed to be under full Palestinian control.
Sharwai's wife was in the car with him and said she had seen him being dragged away at gunpoint.
Palestinian officials said an activist in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ahmed Mohammed Roai, and his wife, were detained by Israeli forces at a roadblock near the West Bank city of Qalqilya.
Last week, Israel's security cabinet officially resumed a policy of targeting Palestinian militants for attack, a tactic it said was aimed at foiling bombings in Israeli cities. Palestinians accuse Israel of waging an ``assassination'' campaign in which some 40 activists have been killed.
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Israel's closest ally, the United States, have criticized a cabinet decision to step up the policy of deliberate killings of Palestinian activists wanted for attacks against Israelis. Secretary of State Colin Powell reiterated on Thursday Washington's opposition to the practice in which Palestinians say more than 40 activists have been killed since a Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation erupted last September.
PHOTO CAPTION:
Khalil Mughrabi, 11, who was killed by Israeli troops at Rafah border of the Gaza Strip, lies in his coffin during a funeral procession at Rafah south of Gaza strip July 8, 2001. Palestinian witnesses said the boy had been shot as he played with several dozen other children. (Ahmed Jadallah/Reuters)