Two Palestinian activists died in an Israeli airstrike Wednesday. The latest air strike early Wednesday targeted the Jabaliya refugee camp in the north of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.
On Tuesday, two members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement were killed in a blast in the central Gaza Strip, medics said. The cause of the explosion was not immediately known.
And in the West Bank, Palestinian medical sources said a member of the Fatah-linked armed group Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades was shot dead during an incursion by Israeli troops at Ramallah late Tuesday.
Another activist, a member of the Islamic Jihad, was killed in a similar raid by Israeli troops in the northern West Bank town of Jenin, according to Palestinian security sources.
Meanwhile, Hamas political chief Khaled Mashal told The Guardian newspaper Wednesday that armed resistance would eventually drive Israel out of the occupied territories. "What caused Sharon to leave Gaza, Barak to leave Lebanon in 2000?" he asked.
"And look what's going on in Iraq where the greatest power in the world is facing confusion because of Iraqi resistance."
"Under occupation people don't ask whether their means are effective in hurting the enemy," he said. "The occupiers always have the means to hurt the people they control. The Palestinians have only modest means, so they defend themselves however they can."
