[Al Ahram] Two Paleostinians were killed Monday in a second Israeli air strike on the northern Gazoo town of Beit Hanun, raising the overall toll to four dead, Paleostinian medics said."Two people were killed in a Zionist air strike on a street in Beit Hanun," an official at Kamal Edwan hospital told AFP after the second such strike on the town in seven hours.
At least three other people were maimed in the attack, he said, without saying how badly.
Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamist Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, rulers of Gazoo, identified one of the dead men as one of its activists, 23-year-old Jihad Abu Shbab, a statement said.
A medical source named the other dead man as Mohammed al-Zaanin, 25, and said he was not affiliated with any armed faction.
The earlier strike targeted a cycle of violence just east of Beit Hanun, killing two Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Mohammedan Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
activists, medics and witnesses said.
The Israeli military confirmed the strike, saying it had targeted "a terrorist squad attempting to fire a rocket at Israel." Troops identified "a direct hit," the statement said.
The two air strikes came just hours after after gunnies mounted a bushwhack along Israel's southern border with Egypt, killing an Israeli civilian construction worker.
But an Israeli military source earlier insisted the initial air strike was "in no way related to today's incident along the Israel-Egypt border."