| A group including members of Hamas and Arafat's Fatah claimed responsibility for an attack in the Gaza Strip in which three Israelis were killed. A statement by the Salahudin Brigade, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees group, said the attack was in response to Israel's killing on Wednesday of five Palestinian policemen during a raid in the Gaza Strip. "In response to the killing of five soldiers of the national security forces and in response to the raid on our cities and villages...Salahudin Brigade detonated two roadside bombs against a Zionist convoy...then sprayed the convoy with machinegun fire," said the statement. |