- Title: GAZA: Israeli air strike wounds three militants in Gaza Strip
- Date: 16th May 2006
- Summary: WOUNDED MILITANTS BEING WHEELED ON; STRETCHERS IN HOSPITAL; EXTERIOR OF HOSPITAL (3 SHOTS)
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- Story Text: Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh condemned on Monday (May 15, 2006) an Israeli airstrike on Khan Younis which injured three militants.
"I tell the occupation and I tell the occupiers and to their planes whatever you do it will not retreat or weaken this people. And we are behind you in this field, if God wills and peace be upon you," Haniyeh told a crowd in a rally for al-Nakba day in Gaza city.
Haniyeh received the news of the airstrike as he was addressing hundreds of Palestinians who gathered to mark the 58th. al-Nakba day - or the great catastrophe - the dispossession of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled or were forced to leave their homes during the 1948 war which led to the creation of Israel.
During the 1948 war hundreds of villages and towns that were inhabited by Palestinians were depopulated and razed.
Earlier on Monday, an Israeli aircraft attacked a car in the southern Gaza Strip, wounding three Islamic Jihad militants, witnesses and medics said.
"We attacked a terrorist squad from the air," an Israeli military spokesman said in Tel Aviv.
Witnesses and medics said three members of Islamic Jihad, a group that has been carrying out cross-border rocket attacks against Israel, were wounded in the air strike that destroyed their vehicle.
Israel has launched frequent air strikes in the Gaza Strip against Palestinian militants it accuses of firing makeshift rockets against towns and villages in southern Israel. Israeli soldiers and settlers quit the Gaza Strip last year.
On Sunday (May 14), Israeli troops killed seven Palestinians including a leading Islamic Jihad militant, in the bloodiest fighting in weeks in the occupied West Bank. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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