Gaza Strip: At least five Palestinians dead

Published August 30th, 2006 - 09:08 GMT

Israeli troops killed at least three armed Palestinians Wednesday morning in Gaza, three of whom have been identified as members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. Palestinian doctor said two civilians were also killed.

 

on Tuesday night, Israeli occupation forces killed a Palestinain in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya, medical sources said. The sources reported that an unidentified man died of shrapnel wounds when Israeli tanks bombarded houses in the area.

 

The latest casualties in the Shijaia neighbourhood raised to 11 the number of Palestinians killed over the past 24 hours in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.


A senior leader of Islamic Jihad, Hosam Jaradat, died in a Jordanian hospital on Wednesday from injuries suffered during a raid by an Israeli undercover unit in the West Bank city of Jenin last week, the group said, according to Reuters.

 

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