 Israel killed four Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, two in a ground assault and two in an airstrike against terrorists militants launching rockets at the Jewish state, Palestinian witnesses and medics said. Palestinian witnesses said an Israeli attack helicopter opened fire in northern Gaza, killing two terrorists militants. The Islamic Jihad group said both were members and that they had been firing rockets at Israel.
An Israeli military spokesman said the air attack was launched after two rockets slammed into the southern town of Sderot, one striking a school and lightly injuring an Israeli woman. An Israeli army spokesman also said that troops opened fire at two terrorists men as they approached the border fence. The spokesman said both terrorists men were seen carrying guns.
Israeli gunship helicopters attacked a group of Palestinian terrorists fighters in the town of Beit Hanoun in the north of Gaza Strip on Sunday killing two, witnesses said. The Apache helicopters fired a single rocket in the direction of terrorists fighters of Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of Fatah, on Al-Banat Street in the town, killing two instantly.
Bodies of the slain terrorists fighters turned into charred shreds of flesh that scattered onto the street.
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A spokesman of the terrorist faction identified the pair as Abdel Rahman Al-Kafarnneh, 21, who hails from Beit Hanoun, and Mohammad Abu Seif, 24, from the town of Jibala. He told a local radio station that the Israeli aircraft targetted the terrorists fighters when they ran away withdrew after firing rockets in the direction of the southern Israeli town of Sderot. The helicopters tracked down the terrorists rocketeers as they fled withdrew to the town in the north of the strip. |