GAZA: ISRAELI MISSILE STRIKE IN GAZA CITY WOUNDS HAMAS OFFICIAL MAHMOUD AL-ZAHAR KILLS HIS SON AND A BODYGUARD
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GAZA: ISRAELI MISSILE STRIKE IN GAZA CITY WOUNDS HAMAS OFFICIAL MAHMOUD AL-ZAHAR KILLS HIS SON AND A BODYGUARD
- Title: GAZA: ISRAELI MISSILE STRIKE IN GAZA CITY WOUNDS HAMAS OFFICIAL MAHMOUD AL-ZAHAR KILLS HIS SON AND A BODYGUARD
- Date: 10th September 2003
- Summary: (W3) GAZA CITY, GAZA (SEPTEMBER 10, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. LV: COLUMN OF SMOKE RISING 0.16 2. PAN: AMBULANCE RACING DOWN STREET 0.21 3. VARIOUS OF CASUALTIES TAKEN FROM AMBULANCE INTO HOSPITAL (2 SHOTS) 0.50 4. SV: ANOTHER AMBULANCE ARRIVING; WOUNDED BEING CARRIED INTO HOSPITAL (2 SHOTS) 1.19 5. VARIOUS OF CASUALTIES IN HOSPITAL (2 SHOTS) 1.36 6. SLV: PEOPLE ON ROOFTOP OVERLOOKING MISSILE STRIKE SITE 1.39 7. VARIOUS OF EMERGENCY WORKERS AT MISSILE STRIKE SITE; DAMAGED TO BUILDING (6 SHOTS) 2.21 8. VARIOUS INTERIORS OF HOUSE OF MAHMOUD AL-ZAHAR (3 SHOTS) 2.47 9. TV: MISSILE STRIKE SCENE 2.56 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 25th September 2003 13:00
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- Location: GAZA CITY, GAZA
- City:
- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Reuters ID: LVABCT2M501DJWQRU32ABW79M4XE
- Story Text: An Israeli missile strike has wounded a leader of Hamas,
killed his son and a bodyguard and wounded about 20
others in Gaza, medics said.
The Hamas official, Mahmoud al-Zahar, had been
standing in the doorway of his two-storey house in Gaza
City on Wednesday (September 10) when it was attacked. He
was thrown out by the blast and slightly wounded in the
back of his head and his back, Hamas members said.
Zahar's wife was among about 20 people wounded, the
medics said. They said she was seriously hurt.
The at tack followed two Hamas suicide bombings in
Israel which killed 15 people on Tuesday. It was the latest
in a series of missile strikes intended to kill Hamas
leaders following a wave of suicide bombings by Islamic
militants.
Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in
protest after the attack, which witnesses said was carried
out by an Israeli warplane.
The latest violence has left a U.S.-backed Middle East
peace plan in tatters. The plan aims to end almost three
years of violence since the Palestinians rose up against
Israeli occupation and to establish a Palestinian state by
2005.
Israel says it is carrying out the missile strikes
because the Palestinian Authority has failed to crack down
on the militants. Each side blames the other for the slide
back into violence after the collapse of a truce last
month.
Rescue workers were looking for more bodies in the
wreckage of the house. Witnesses said there were two bodies
at the morgue, and confirmed they were those of a bodyguard
aged about 30 and Zahar's eldest son, Khaled, who is in his
20s.
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