- Title: GAZA: ONE PERSON KILLED AND 20 INJURED IN ISRAELI MISSILE ATTACK ON GAZA
- Date: 26th August 2003
- Summary: (W6) JABALYA REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA (AUGUST 26, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE OF PALESTINIAN AMBULANCES AND FIRE FIGHTER TRUCKS ARRIVING AT SITE OF MISSILE STRIKE 0.05 2. PAN TO PALESTINIANS GATHERING AROUND WRECKAGE OF BURNT CAR 0.12 3. VARIOUS , PALESTINIANS LOOKING AT BURNT CAR 0.28 4. SLV PALESTINIAN PULLING PETROL TANK FROM CAR 0.34
- Embargoed: 10th September 2003 13:00
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- Location: JABALYA REFUGEE CAMP, GAZA AND GAZA CITY, GAZA
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Reuters ID: LVA62K1NE1H27V9XWMP8X1B5BAU6
- Story Text: At least one person has been killed and 20 others
wounded in an Israeli missile strike in Gaza that
Palestinian National Security Chief Dahlan condemned.
Israeli helicopter gunships killed at least one
person and injured 20 in a Gaza Strip refugee camp on
Tuesday (August 26), keeping up the pressure on Palestinian
militant strongholds after the collapse of a ceasefire.
Witnesses said helicopters fired three or four missiles
at a car in the Jabalya refugee camp carrying a member of
Hamas's military wing, who survived the air strike. They
said the man killed in the attack appeared to be an elderly
bystander.
Minutes after the strike, Palestinian youths jumped
atop the battered, white Renault, flashing V-for-victory
signs and chanting anti-Israel slogans. Angry crowds
gathered outside the hospital where the injured were taken.
The Israeli attack was carried out just days after
Israel assassinated a senior Hamas leader last week and
killed four militants from its military wing in response to
a suicide bomb attack on a Jerusalem bus that killed 21
people.
Israel has said it will continue hunting down Hamas
leaders, many of whom have gone into hiding following the
Israeli threat. Hamas has vowed revenge attacks.
Israeli forces intensified sweeps for militants in
Nablus and other occupied West Bank areas after the August
19 bus bombing in Jerusalem, which shattered a ceasefire
underpinning the peace "road map".
Leaders and fighters in Hamas retreated into the
shadows following the killings of deputy political chief
Ismail Abu Shanab and four other members in Israeli
helicopter missile strikes in Gaza in the past week.
Israeli army chief Moshe Yaalon said top militants
faced "liquidation" after they called off the truce last
week in the wake of Abu Shanab's death, which followed the
Jerusalem bus bombing that Hamas called revenge for army
raids.
Palestinian National Security Chief Mohammed Dhalan
said on Tuesday (August 26) that if Israel is interested in
continuing with the implementation of the road map it must
stop the attacks. "This is a continuation of the crim
inal operations
conducted by Israel in the past. It (Israel) is continuing
with this aggressive policy which depends on assassinations.
Israel realizes that assassinations policy will not
bring peace but more acts of revenge and a continuation to
the cycle of violence. Therefore, if Israel wants to return
things to where they stood a week ago it has to stop
assassinations and to begin seriously in implementing the
peace process and implementing the road map," Dhalan told
Reuters outside his office.
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