A 12-year-old boy was killed Saturday morning on Al-Widah Street in cenrtal Gaza City in an Air Force targeting of a white Peugot car carrying senior Islamic Jihad members. Some reports claimed that Tarek al Sufi, the bodyguard of Islamic Jihad leader Abdullah Shami, was also dead and ten additional people were wounded. It is not clear if Abdullah Shami was in the vehicle at the time of the blast. There were conflicting reports regarding the identities of the occupants; some reports claimed they included Aziz Mohammed Shami, a relative of Islamic Jihad leader Abdullah Shami, who was seriously wounded; and that another passenger in the car, Khalil al-Bassiouny, was killed. The IDF Spokesman confirmed the attack, saying the Air Force targeted a senior Islamic Jihad official riding in the car but refused to release his name, saying only that he was responsible for the deaths of a number of Israeli soldiers and was in the midst of planning further terror attacks.
| Looks like they missed him. Dammit. |
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The attack on Saturday is believed to be an assassination attempt against Islamic Jihad members Aziz al-Shami and Khalil al-Basyuni. "Aziz Shami, 37, died of his injuries shortly after being admitted to the Shifa Hospital in Gaza," Dr Bakr Abu Safia, told reporters.
| "Yep. He's dead. At least, all the pieces of him I saw were dead..." |
Our correspondent said the targeted Jihad members may have heard the helicopters overhead and managed to get out of their car seconds before a missile hit their car in the busy al-Wihda Street of central Gaza.
| "Feet, don't fail me — aargh!" |
However, they were seriously injured and were rushed to hospital. Several passers-by, including the boy who later died, were hit by shrapnel.
| Damn. It's Aziz and not Abdullah. Not the same person, though they're related. Call off the ululation. |
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