EFL, and to limit to breaking news.
Israeli helicopters retaliated [for the bus bombing] with two missile strikes spaced hours apart — against Hamas and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade — killing seven Palestinians in the first and at least two in the later attack. Less than six hours [after the strike that accounted for Tito Massoud], Israeli helicopters fired more missiles in Gaza City, killing at least two people and wounding one seriously, residents said. The two Palestinians killed were members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Fox News has learned — the Israeli military had no comment.
Guess they achieved martyrdom.
More detail, from Middle East On-Line...
GAZA CITY - Six Palestinians were killed Wednesday when an Israeli helicopter fired a missile on a car in the Shajayah neighbourhood in Gaza City. The strike came about an hour after a suicide bomb ripped through a bus in central west Jerusalem, killing 13 people and wounding scores.
| Hmmm... Think the two might have been connected? |
According to witnesses, the target was Massud Titi, a senior member of the hardline Islamic Hamas movement's armed wing, the Ezzedin al-Qassam Brigades.
Medical sources said some 20 people were wounded in the raid and added that two women were among the dead. "Two missiles hit the car. I stopped my car to help them but the Israeli helicopters fired four more missiles at us," said Mohammad, in his forties, who was wounded in the attack said at a nearby hospital. |