GAZA: Israeli forces battle militants in northern Gaza Strip with at least four Hamas gunmen killed, Hamas say they fired rockets into Israel

Record ID: 375061

  • Title: GAZA: Israeli forces battle militants in northern Gaza Strip with at least four Hamas gunmen killed, Hamas say they fired rockets into Israel
  • Date: 14th October 2006
  • Summary: WOMAN CRYING DISTRAUGHT MAN LEANING AGAINST WALL
  • Embargoed: 29th October 2006 12:00
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  • Topics: International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVA45VCFKQPH8BM14SVKI392N2RR
  • Story Text: Israeli forces battled militants in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday (October 14) and at least four Hamas gunmen were killed, Palestinian security sources said.
    A column of Israeli tanks backed by attack helicopters moved deep into an area east of the town of Jabalya. Militants responded with anti-tank fire.
    Security sources said four Hamas militants were killed in the clashes when an Israeli rocket hit a house. At least 11 other Palestinians were injured, mostly militants.
    Earlier, an Israeli air strike destroyed a house in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, witnesses and medics said.
    Israeli forces on Friday (October 13) killed four Palestinians, three of them Hamas militants, in the biggest upsurge of Israeli-Palestinian violence in the Gaza Strip in weeks, residents said.
    Hamas said they fired rockets into Israel on Friday.
    Video footage handed to Reuters by the group purported to show the rockets being fired but this could not be independently confirmed.
    Almost 240 Palestinians, about half of them civilians, have been killed since Israel launched its offensive in Gaza in June to try to recover a captured soldier and stop cross-border rocket fire.
    Hamas controls the Palestinian government and resumed rocket attacks on Israel earlier this week.
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