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| IDF denies killing Hamas gunmen in north Gaza | |
| 2009-09-02 | |
| The Israel Defense Forces categorically denied killing two Hamas gunmen in Gaza on Tuesday, after the Palestinian Islamist group and medical officials accused the army of having slain the men with tank fire. A military spokeswoman said: "There was no attack by the Israel Defense Forces in the Gaza Strip." The army relayed that while an explosion was heard near the security fence along the border, the IDF had no involvement in the incident. Hamas and the medics initially said the militants, two Hamas gunmen standing guard on the Gaza Strip's northern frontier, were killed in an Israel Air Force strike, before claiming that it was in fact a tank shell that caused the deaths. There have been sporadic Palestinian short-range rocket attacks on Israel since the end of its December-January offensive against Hamas, often carried out by non-Hamas factions. Israel has generally responded with air strikes against infrastructure, causing few casualties. Hamas said the gunmen killed on Tuesday had been deployed in night-lookout positions east of the town of Jabalya, close to the Israeli border. Medical officials said their bodies bore wounds from heavy ordnance.
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| Posted by:Fred |