GAZA/ WEST BANK: Israeli army raids into Gaza and Jenin kill three Palestinians and injure two

Record ID: 396564

  • Title: GAZA/ WEST BANK: Israeli army raids into Gaza and Jenin kill three Palestinians and injure two
  • Date: 6th September 2007
  • Summary: GROUP OF MEN STANDING NEAR MORGUE WIDE OF AREA NEAR HOSPITAL
  • Embargoed: 21st September 2007 13:00
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  • Topics: International Relations
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  • Story Text: Three suspected Palestinians militants are killed in Gaza during Israeli army raids while two others are injured in the West bank city of Jenin.
    Israeli soldiers operating inside the Gaza Strip killed three Palestinian gunmen on Thursday (September 6) medical officials said.
    Local residents said a small Israeli commando force crossed into the territory near the Palestinian town of Khan Younis and that gun battles erupted.
    Israeli tanks then moved into the area, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and the fighting intensified, the residents said.
    Two Islamic Jihad gunmen and a Hamas militant were killed in the clashes, ambulance crews and doctors at a local hospital said.
    Dozens of Gaza residents were arrested and brought into Israel.
    An Israeli army spokeswoman in Tel Aviv said Israeli forces carried out "routine activity" in an area where gunmen have been firing rockets at Israel and digging tunnels near the border fence.
    Later on Thursday, two militant groups said they tried to carry out an attack on an Israeli post on the border with central Gaza.
    The attack was thwarted when two vehicles carrying the militants came under Israeli helicopter fire. An army spokeswoman confirmed that two vehicles were targeted.
    It was unclear if there were any casualties and the two militant groups declined to comment.
    Israel's security cabinet, discussing how to respond to Qassam rockets from Gaza, decided on Wednesday (September 5) to pursue "pinpointed attacks" against militants, despite calls by right-wingers for a large-scale operation in the Hamas-controlled territory.
    Later, Israeli soldiers operating inside the West bank city of Jenin injured two stones throwers, medical officials said. Locals said the army was searching for Palestinian militants.
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