- Title: GAZA: Israeli strike kills two Palestinians
- Date: 19th January 2012
- Summary: ISRAEL-GAZA BORDER, ISRAEL (JANUARY 18, 2012) (REUTERS) ISRAELI HELICOPTER HOVERING IN SKY, FIRING VARIOUS OF ISRAELI SOLDIERS AND ARMY JEEPS LOOKING AT BORDER SOLDIER AIMING WEAPON, LOOKING AT GAZA SOLDIER LOOKING AT GAZA THROUGH BINOCULARS SMOKE BILLOWING OVER GAZA AS SEEN FROM ISRAEL, ISRAELI VEHICLES AND SOLDIERS ALONG BORDER FENCE ISRAELI JEEP DRIVING TOWARDS BO
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- Location: Gaza, Gaza
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
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- Story Text: An Israeli aircraft and tank strike killed two Palestinian men close to the border fence in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Wednesday (January 18, 2012), medics said.
Residents of the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun said Israeli planes and tanks had fired into the area. Local men and ambulances parked near the border fence for a while, waving white cloth, before they were allowed to approach the site and evacuate the wounded and dead. The critically wounded man later died of his wounds.
An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed the attack in an army statement: "Aircraft and armored corps soldiers targeted a terrorist squad that was planting an explosive device near the security fence in the northern Gaza Strip."
The statement said it was the second such attempt in 2012 by Palestinian militants to plant an explosive device in an area of the border where the Israeli military regularly patrols. Israel has declared the frontier area a no-go zone for Gaza residents.
Palestinian medics said a second man was critically wounded. Police of the Palestinian Islamist faction Hamas had said earlier that both men were killed in the incident.
No militant group claimed the men as members.
It was the first deadly military strike in the Gaza Strip since December 30, when an Israeli aircraft killed the leader of an al Qaeda-inspired faction. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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