- Title: GAZA: Israel targets member of Islamic Jihad in an air strike on Gaza.
- Date: 15th August 2006
- Summary: SLATE INFORMATION
- Embargoed: 30th August 2006 13:00
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- Topics: International Relations
- Reuters ID: LVA2E882G27SL47N1R2R5TL0K1IX
- Story Text: Israeli aircraft carried out an air strike in Gaza on Monday (August 14), hitting a house where a member of the Islamic Jihad militant group lived, witnesses and the Israeli military said.
Medics said eight people living nearby were brought to hospital with injuries. A car parked outside the building was set ablaze. But witnesses said those living inside the house were notified ahead of the strike and had left the building.
The Israeli army said it suspected the house of being an Islamic Jihad command centre.
Israel has carried out a series of air strikes in Gaza over recent weeks, targeting suspected militant hideouts and factories used for making makeshift rockets.
Attacks were stepped up after the June 25 kidnapping of an Israeli soldier by Gaza militants. The soldier is still being held.
Since his seizure, Israeli forces have carried out repeated incursions into the Gaza Strip both to try to locate the soldier and to put a stop to the firing of rockets by militants into Israel.
Earlier on Monday at least three rockets were fired into Israel from Gaza, but there were no reports of any injuries. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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