GAZA: At least one dead in car blast

Record ID: 359594

  • Title: GAZA: At least one dead in car blast
  • Date: 23rd January 2006
  • Summary: MORE OF MEN AT SITE
  • Embargoed: 7th February 2006 12:00
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  • Reuters ID: LVA4DX63Y8HLURE0GURSAXZPUNV1
  • Story Text: At least one person was killed and two wounded in an
    explosion in the Gaza Strip on Sunday (January 22) and a
    Palestinian militant group accused Israel of trying to kill
    its fighters in a strike on their car.
    The Israeli army said that it was not "a targetted
    killing" and was it checking the reports.
    Palestinian witnesses said the debris included what
    looked like pieces of a missile. They said that Israeli
    helicopters had been hovering over the area at the time of
    the blast.
    The 'Palestinian Popular Resistance Committees', a
    coalition of militant groups, said its fighters had been
    travelling in the car, but escaped the explosion. A
    spokesman for the group said a bystander was killed. Medics
    confirmed one civilian was dead.
    Israel has often targetted Palestinian militants in air
    strikes on the Gaza Strip, but fighters have also regularly
    been killed when their own homemade bombs or rockets have
    exploded prematurely.
    Israel had been considering its response after a
    suicide bombing by the Islamic Jihad faction wounded 30
    people in Tel Aviv last week.
    Tension is high in the Gaza Strip ahead of Palestinian
    parliamentary elections on January 25, in which Islamic
    militant group Hamas is challenging President Mahmoud
    Abbas's Fatah faction for the first time.
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