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Five Gaza gunmen killed in clashes with Israel (Roundup)
Dec 27, 2007, 17:22 GMT
Gaza/Tel Aviv - Five Palestinian militants were killed in two separate Israeli strikes late Thursday in the southern and central Gaza Strip, medics in the enclave said.
Four of the gunmen were members of the radical Islamic Jihad and one was from Hamas, witnesses said.
Two militants were killed when an Israeli plane fired a missile at a car near al-Bureij Refugee camp in the centre of the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military confirmed the airstrike and said the militants' vehicle contained explosives and they were en route to carry out an attack.
Hours earlier, Israeli artillery shelling in south Gaza killed three militants and wounded three more, Palestinian medics and witnesses said.
An Israeli military spokesman in Tel Aviv, however said soldiers, engaged in what he described as 'routine anti-terror operations' in the southern salient, came under fire from a rocket propelled grenade, opened fire with small arms, and reported hitting three gunmen.
A fourth gunman was hit in an airstrike, the spokesman said.
Palestinian witnesses said several Israeli tanks and two bulldozers had rolled into an area near a village by Khan Younis, and were attacked by Palestinian militant groups, who claimed to have fired more than 20 shells at the Israelis.
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More to come.Feb 3rd, 2008 - 16:16:56
The Hamas is at war and will stop at nothing to kill. They shoots rockets unprovoked, and claim inane excuses that it is in retaliation for something else. There is always an excuse to kill, how about one for peace??? If your kind really cares for your people’s future you would stop the hostilities and escalation at once for many innocents will be hurt on both sides. I suppose it is easier for the morally corrupt to wage war and to destroy than to make peace and build.
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