GAZA: Israeli airstrikes destroy several houses in Gaza City and Jabalya refugee camp after militants fired rockets on Israel

Record ID: 339175

  • Title: GAZA: Israeli airstrikes destroy several houses in Gaza City and Jabalya refugee camp after militants fired rockets on Israel
  • Date: 16th November 2006
  • Summary: ++SECOND HOUSE JABALYA++ VARIOUS OF FIRE TRUCKS AND AMBULANCES AT SITE FIREMAN PREPARING FIRE HOSE PEOPLE SHOUTING FIRE BURNING BETWEEN HOUSE WRECKAGE MORE OF FIRE TRUCKS (AUDIO: GUNFIRE) PEOPLE RUNNING AWAY WIDE OF AREA WHERE MISSILE HIT
  • Embargoed: 1st December 2006 12:00
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  • Topics: Defence / Military
  • Reuters ID: LVACDZO8UO03LLNC044WEXKSENGD
  • Story Text: Israel's air force bombarded the homes of two leaders of Hamas's armed wing and another Palestinian militant in Gaza on Wednesday (November 15) after warning occupants to get out, witnesses and military officials said. One Palestinian passer-by was wounded.
    The first strike, by a helicopter gunship firing two missiles, targeted the house of a leader of the Popular Resistance Committees armed group in Shathi refugee camp outside Gaza City. Residents said a person walking outside was wounded.
    Minutes later, an Israeli warplane bombed the home of a military commander from the governing Palestinian faction Hamas in nearby Jabalya refugee camp. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
    An Israeli military spokeswoman said the air strikes, which came hours after a Palestinian rocket salvo from Gaza killed a woman in Israel, targeted militant arms caches.
    A rocket fired from Gaza killed a 58-year-old woman and wounded several other residents of Sderot, an Israeli border town on Wednesday, prompting Israel to vow it would "find and kill" the Palestinian militants responsible.
    It was the first time since July 2005 that rockets had killed an Israeli citizen in towns and villages along the Gaza frontier.
    One rocket landed in a street close to the home of Defence Minister Amir Peretz in the working-class town of Sderot, officials said. Peretz was not at home at the time. Another rocket landed near the town's police station, paramedics said.
    The armed wing of the ruling Hamas Islamist movement said it fired at least two salvoes at Sderot and claimed responsibility for the death, which it said was in response to Israeli shelling last week that killed 19 Palestinian civilians. The Islamic Jihad militant group said it had launched two rockets.
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