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Three Hamas terrorists killed in Israeli operation in Gaza Strip
 GAZA CITY -Three terrorists militants from the armed branch of the Palestinian group Hamas were killed overnight Wednesday by Israeli army fire during an incursion in the southern Gaza Strip, a Hamas spokesman said.
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The three terrorists—Yahya Abou Bakra, 32, Chadi Abou Houda, 21, and Amar a-Ram, 20, were killed by Israeli missiles, the official told AFP. Earlier witnesses and sources at the hospital had said that two of the Palestinians had been killed by Israeli automatic fire and shells in the western part of the Khan Younis refugee camp. The spokesman said another Hamas terrorist militant had been seriously injured during the incursion. Witnesses said the Israeli soldiers entered the camp in around 20 armoured vehicles, ordering the inhabitants of several of the camp's houses to come outside and assemble in a school. An Israeli military source told AFP that the troops had entered the Khan Younis camp in a bid to stop terrorists militants firing rockets and mortars towards Israeli targets in a settlement in the Gaza Strip. "Last week these areas came under mortar or rocket fire 55 times from the northern part of the Khan Younis camp," he said, describing the area as a "Hamas stronghold".
Posted by: Steve White 2004-12-30 |
