PALIS KILL PALIS AT BORDER CROSSING

Palestinian Attacks Palestinians at Israel-Gaza Crossing - Avi Issacharoff and Yuval Yoaz
One Palestinian was killed Monday and at least 10 others were wounded when a gunman attacked a group of Palestinians waiting to cross from Gaza into Israel near the Erez crossing. The Popular Resistance Committees claimed responsibility for the attack. The IDF believes the attack was intended to frighten Palestinians seeking to flee Gaza. (Ha'aretz)

MDA evacuates 5 Palestinians from Gaza (JPost)
MDA ambulances on Tuesday evacuated five Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to Israeli hospitals, including two who were wounded in Monday's Hamas shooting attack at Erez Crossing.

IDF officers said that three Palestinians who had been seriously wounded in violent clashes in Gaza over the last few weeks were located by the Red Cross in Gaza hospitals and were taken in ambulances to Erez Crossing.

The Red Cross coordinated with the IDF that the casualties would be picked up by MDA ambulances and transferred to Israeli hospitals.

However, on the way to the crossing, Hamas stopped the ambulances and held them up for several hours. Only after international intervention were the ambulances allowed to pass.
In addition to those hurt in the recent Palestinian factional fighting, the IDF decided to evacuate those seriously wounded in Monday's flare-up at Erez.

Initially, 12 Palestinians were taken at crossing and underwent examinations by an Israeli medical team. In the end only two were found to be in critical condition, warranting immediate transfer to Israeli hospitals.

MAN WHO LOST FAMILY TO TERRORISTS HELPS TERROR VICTIMS

Man who lost wife, 3 kids in attack goes south to help (JPost)
Boaz Shabo, a Magen David Adom volunteer from the Dan Region who lost his wife and three children in a terror attack on their home in Itamar five years ago, has gone to help out in Sderot.

Shabo, who has four other children - two of them married - and one grandchild, asked them if they agreed to his going to the town, which is being bombarded by Kassam rockets from Gaza. "Go help people, just as we were helped," they said. Although he was asked to bolster the MDA staff in Ashkelon, Shabo said he prefers to volunteer in the "eye of the storm," in Sderot itself. In the past few days, he has already treated a number of people wounded in rocket attacks.

"After what I went through I can help people, because I understand what they're going through," he said. "I can speak to them eye to eye, not like a psychologist or a social worker who speaks in theory. I'm happy that I've been there for several days and helped people. And I hope I can go back and help as long as I'm needed."

Shabo's wife, Rahel, and three of their children were murdered in 2002 when a terrorist entered their home in Itamar.

"I was on my way home from work," he says, recalling the terrible night. "I spoke to my wife about preparations for Shabbat, and at the checkpoint I heard that a terrorist had locked himself up in a home in Itamar. I had a gut feeling it was my house, and when I got home, I saw I was right."

Shabo's two older children, Atara and Yariv, managed to get out the front door when the terrorist broke open the back one and opened fire. After security forces killed the terrorist, his son Asael, then nine, who had been seriously wounded and later had his leg amputated, was brought out, along with Aviya, then 14, who was also seriously hurt. Then, four bodies were removed - Rahel, his wife, and sons Neriya (15), Zvi (12) and Avishai (five).

After the funerals, Shabo was determined to be both father and mother to his surviving children. He also decided to volunteer with MDA. "Giving so as not to receive is my therapy and helps me go on," he says. Shabo also volunteered on an ambulance during a terror attack on Rehov Allenby in Tel Aviv and in the North during the Second Lebanon War.

"I have shown the terrorist that with all the pain and unbearable loss, he did not destroy my entire family," he says, smiling he presents a photo of his new granddaughter on his cellular phone.

ISRAELI MEDICS RISK LIVES TO SAVE PALI KIDS

MDA enters Gaza to treat Palestinian (JPost)
MDA medics risked their lives Friday and crossed Erez Crossing to the Palestinian side in order to stabilize and evacuate a Palestinian woman who had suffered a heart attack in Gaza. IDF sources said the MDA medics took a "great risk" by crossing over to the Palestinian side of Erez.

The woman, 31, was evacuated to the crossing by Palestinian medics who had failed to resuscitate her following the heart attack. After coordinating with the Gaza Liaison Administration, the MDA medics crossed into Gaza, stabilized the woman and evacuated her into Israel where she was transferred to Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv.

On Thursday, for the first time since the beginning of the second intifada, an MDA ambulance entered Ramallah to evacuate a six-month-old Palestinian baby for medical treatment. The baby, who was in critical condition, was thought to have been exposed to toxic chemicals.