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Israeli airstrike on southern Gaza wounds three militants
(Xinhua) -- Three Islamic Jihad militants were injured on Tuesday afternoon in an Israeli airstrike on an area east of the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis, medics and witnesses said. Mo'aweya Hassanein, chief of emergency and ambulance services in the Palestinian health ministry told reporters that three people were injured in the airstrike, one of them critically. Witnesses said that an Israeli aircraft fired one missile at a group of Islamic Jihad militants east of the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip, adding that three were injured. Earlier Tuesday, the group claimed responsibility in a leaflet sent to reporters for launching a homemade rocket from Gaza at Western Negev area in southern Israel. Israeli Radio quoted Israeli army sources as saying that a homemade rocket fired from the Gaza Strip at southern Israel wounded at least five Israelis, two of them were moderately injured. Posted by: Fred 2008-06-04 |
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