GAZA: ISRAELI FORCES KILL PALESTINIAN IN GAZA MISSILE STRIKE WHILE ISRAELI TROOPS KILL TWO MILITANTS IN GAZA
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GAZA: ISRAELI FORCES KILL PALESTINIAN IN GAZA MISSILE STRIKE WHILE ISRAELI TROOPS KILL TWO MILITANTS IN GAZA
- Title: GAZA: ISRAELI FORCES KILL PALESTINIAN IN GAZA MISSILE STRIKE WHILE ISRAELI TROOPS KILL TWO MILITANTS IN GAZA
- Date: 27th September 2004
- Summary: (EU) KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA STRIP (SEPTEMBER 27, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. PAN OF PALESTINIANS GATHERED AT CAR WHICH WAS TARGETED BY ISRAELI MISSILE KILLING AT LEAST ONE PALESTINIAN (2 SHOTS) 0.23 2. CU OF BLOOD ON GROUND 0.28 3. TV OF PEOPLE GATHERED AT SITE OF ATTACK 0.33 4. LV/TV OF SITE (2 SHOTS) 0.43 5. LV OF PEOPLE OUTSIDE HOSPITAL 0.48 6. SV DEAD MAN COVERED IN SHEET BEING TAKEN AWAY 1.14 7. SLV AMBULANCE AND CROWS OUTSIDE HOSPITAL 1.20 (W5) NEAR BEIT HANOUN, GAZA (SEPTEMBER 27, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 8. SLV PALESTINIAN MEDICS CARRYING BODY OF ONE OF THE TWO MILITANTS KILLED / PALESTINIAN SECURITY SOURCES SAY THE MILITANTS KILLED BY ISRAELI TROOPS 1.33 9. SV OF BODY BEING PUT IN AMBULANCE 1.39 10. LV AMBULANCE LEAVING AREA 1.47 (W5) RAFAH, GAZA (SEPTEMBER 27, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 11. TV PALESTINIANS GATHERED OUTSIDE HOSPITAL 1.54 12. TV WOUNED, COVERED IN WHITE CLOTH BEING CARRIED INTO HOSPITAL (2 SHOTS) 2.03 13. SV OF PALESTINIAN CHILDREN BEING TREATED IN HOSPITAL (3 SHOTS) 2.29 14. SV OF WOUNDED ON HOSPITAL STRETCHERS (2 SHOTS) 2.40 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: KHAN YOUNIS, RAFAH AND NEAR BEIT HANOUN, GAZA
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
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- Story Text: Israeli forces kill Palestinian in Gaza missile
strike while Israeli troops kill two militants in Gaza.
An Israeli helicopter fired a missile at a car
carrying Palestinian militants in the southern Gaza Strip
on Monday (September 27), killing one of them, witnesses
said.
The Israeli army had no immediate comment on the
incident in the town of Khan Younis.
Witnesses identified the apparent target as Mohammed
Abu Nsair, a leading activist of the Popular Resistance
Committees (PRC), an umbrella militant group, and medics
said he was wounded.
A second militant in the car in which Abu Nsair was
travelling was killed in the attack and at least two other
Palestinians were wounded, the medics said.
Israel has killed dozens of militants in similar
strikes over the past four years of violence with the
Palestinians.
The PRC, along with the militant Islamic Jihad group
and Abu Rish Brigades, claimed responsibility for a raid
that killed three Israeli soldiers at an army post in a
Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip on Thursday.
The three gunmen who carried out the attack were shot
dead by troops.
The Israeli strike in Khan Younis was launched a day
after an official of the militant Palestinian group Hamas
was killed by a car bomb in the Syrian capital of Damascus.
Syria and Hamas accused Israel of carrying out the
attack. Israel declined to confirm or deny its involvement.
And in Gaza Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinian
militants on Monday after they were spotted planting a bomb
near Beit Hanoun, an area frequently raided by Israeli
troops, Palestinian security sources said.
The two men were identified as Mohammad Abu Askar, 19
and Hassan Thaher, 20 from the Jabalya refugee camp, and members of
the
Popular Resistance Committees.
In the Rafah refugee camp, Israeli soldiers wounded
several Palestinian children who were near a United Nations
school, Palestinian witnesses said.
Medics said that at least three children were wounded
by fire from a near by army base. All children, most
suffering from moderate wounds, were taken to hospital for
treatment.
The army had no immediate comment on the incident but
said it was checking the report.
Bloodshed has worsened in the Gaza Strip ahead of Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon's planned withdrawal of settlers and
soldiers by the end of 2005.
Israel accused Syria on Monday of "directing
terrorism" and warned it could face pre-emptive strikes
against militants on its territory, but stopped short of
saying it killed a Hamas leader in Damascus.
Syria had accused Israel of terrorism following the
Palestinian militant's death in a car bombing on Sunday
(September 26), three weeks after Hamas killed 16 Israelis
in bombings Israel blamed on Hamas exiles in Damascus.
Hamas threatened to retaliate in an accelerating cycle
of violence that threatens to complicate Israel's planned
evacuation of settlers and soldiers from occupied Gaza in
2005.
Militants have cranked up ambush attacks in the past
few weeks, keen to cast any Israeli pullout as fleeing
under fire, and citing Israel's intent to hold on to larger
settlements in the West Bank as a trade-off for jettisoning
the Gaza Strip.
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