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| Al-Qassam Brigades member killed in Khan Younis; Israeli forces withdraw from Al Maghazi |
| 2007-12-22 |
| Ma'an – The Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas announced that one of their members was killed on Friday morning, during clashes with Israeli forces in Abasan, Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. Dr Muawiya Hassanein, Head of Emergency and Ambulance Services in the Health Ministry, said twenty-seven-year-old Awad El Fahem was admitted to hospital with serious injuries, but died soon after arriving at the hospital. On Thursday evening Israeli forces withdrew from both the Al-Maghazi refugee camp and the village of Al-Masdar in the central Gaza Strip, leaving seven Al Qassam and As-Saraya Brigades members dead and 27 injuried. Four Israeli soldiers were also injured during the invasion of Al-Masdar, one of them seriously. The Israeli army announced that Thursday's military operation in the central Gaza Strip was part of "routine" operations and was not part of a large-scale incursion into Gaza, as had been alleged. |
| Posted by:Fred |