GAZA: An Israeli airstrike on Gaza kills at least five Palestinian militants and one girl

Record ID: 359590

  • Title: GAZA: An Israeli airstrike on Gaza kills at least five Palestinian militants and one girl
  • Date: 9th April 2006
  • Summary: (W4) NEAR RAFAH, GAZA (APRIL 7, 2006) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SCENES) PALESTINIAN RESCUE TEAMS AND RESIDENTS GATHERING AROUND BURNING CAR THAT WAS HIT BY AN ISRAELI AIRSTRIKE WHICH KILLED FIVE MILITANTS PAN TO MAN HOLDING PART FROM WRECKAGE PALESTINIAN FIRE FIGHTERS TRYING TO PUT OUT FIRE WRECKAGE (2 SHOTS) MEN PICKING UP RUINS FROM GROUND AROUND EXPLODED CAR (2 SHOTS) WIDE VIE
  • Embargoed: 24th April 2006 13:00
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  • Topics: International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVA6RB9UKFN3RGVY7QGLDB14ZMI2
  • Story Text: Israeli aircraft struck a car carrying Palestinian militants in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday (April 7), killing five militants inside the vehicle and a small girl who was nearby, witnesses and medics said.
    Among the dead militants from the Popular Resistance Committees was a senior commander and a bomb maker, militants and witnesses said. Medics said the girl had been dismembered.
    The aircraft hit the car as it was leaving a militant base near the town of Rafah on the border with Egypt.
    An Israeli Army spokesman said confirmed that the Israeli airforce fired a missile at a vehicle that was coming out of a training camp in which both training and weapons training were being conducted.
    He said the military was checking reports of the girl being killed.
    The Popular Resistance Committees is an umbrella group of militants that often fires makeshift rockets into Israel.
    Israel has stepped up its air strikes and artillery barrages into Gaza in recent days in response to regular rocket fire from Gaza, which Israel withdrew from last year after 38 years of occupation. The makeshift rockets rarely cause any casualties.
    In the early hours of Friday, Israeli attack helicopters fired missiles at two offices of an armed wing of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement in Gaza City, wrecking them, Palestinian security sources and witnesses said.
    In a third Israeli air strike in Gaza before dawn on Friday, helicopters fired at a helicopter launch pad near Abbas's office in Gaza. There were no casualties in those raids.
    Palestinian militants and Israeli military forces often exchange fire in the region.
    Militants regularly fire rockets from Gaza.
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