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Stray "militant" rocket kills girl in Gaza camp
 A 10-year-old Palestinian girl was killed in north Gaza by what neighbours said was an apparent misfiring of a rocket that militants had aimed at Israel. The girl was outside her house in the northern Gaza refugee camp of Jabalya when she was hit by an errant rocket, medics said. Witnesses said her brother was also wounded.
Meanwhile, a senior Palestinian commander escaped an ambush by Israeli special forces in a northern West Bank refugee camp but his lieutenant was hit, Palestinian security sources said. Mohammed Shradi, commander of the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades for the Tulkarem area, was touring the town's refugee camp when Israeli troops disguised as Palestinians opened fire from a house they had seized. His lover right-hand man Samir Maarek was hit, although the seriousness of his wounds remained unclear.
"They got me, Mohammad!"
"Damn, Samir! Where's your pancreas?" |
An Israeli army spokeswoman said that troops had "spotted an armed Palestinian approaching and opened fire. Other terrorists opened fire on a different army unit at the same time, but there were no casualties," she said.
Note that the original headline left out "militant".
Posted by: .com 2005-01-02 |
