- Title: GAZA: Israeli strike hits gunman linked to Egypt raid
- Date: 5th August 2012
- Summary: RAFAH, GAZA (AUGUST 5, 2012) (REUTERS) POLICEMAN MOVING MOTORBIKE WHICH WAS HIT BY ISRAELI AIR STRIKE MOTORBIKE VARIOUS OF CHARRED MOTORBIKE, HIT BY ISRAELI AIR STRIKE PEOPLE AT SITE
- Embargoed: 20th August 2012 13:00
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- Location: Gaza
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement,Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA1N4FHUH8TC5T9QDKGGQVMHWF9
- Story Text: An Israeli air strike killed a Palestinian gunman from a radical Islamist group and wounded another on Sunday (August 5) as they rode a motorbike in southern Gaza, near the Egyptian border.
The Israeli military said one of those targeted, Ahmed Said Ismail, was behind an attack on June 18 along the Israel-Egypt border in which an Israeli civilian was killed.
Palestinian hospital officials identified the dead man as a member of a radical Islamist militant group "Magles Shoura al-Mujahddin", which is among Salafi factions that are a fringe presence in Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
A group by the same name took responsibility for the June guerrilla raid from the Egyptian Sinai into Israel which killed an Israeli who was helping erect a border fence.
According to a claim issued last month, the two raiders, who were both killed by Israeli forces, were an Egyptian and a Saudi.
Israel has previously accused Palestinian militants in Gaza of involvement in militant activity in Sinai, where insecurity has spread since the U.S.-aligned Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, fell to a citizen revolt last year.
Gaza is governed by Hamas, a Palestinian Islamist movement which, while also hostile to the Jewish state, is considered too moderate by many Salafis and has at times clashed with them during law-and-order drive. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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