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| Dupe entry: 'Interior Ministry building in Gaza hit in IAF strike |
| 2006-06-29 |
| Israeli warplanes struck more than a dozen times in Gaza in the hours after midnight, hitting the Palestinian Interior Ministry and a Fatah office in Gaza city, as well as a Hamas training camp in the city's outskirts. Israel Air Force aircraft early Friday struck the Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza City, Palestinian witnesses said, setting it on fire. There was no word of casualties as smoke and flames rose from the building in downtown Gaza City. The Interior Ministry is nominally in charge of Palestinian security forces, though Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas removed most of its authority. The Israel Defense Forces confirmed its planes hit the office of Interior Minister Said Siyam, which it called "a meeting place to plan and direct terror activity." Palestinian witnesses said Israeli missiles also slammed into an office belonging to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah group and a Hamas training camp outside the city, Palestinian hospital officials said a 5-year-old girl was wounded in an Israeli air strike in northern Gaza early Friday, the first casualty in more than two days of military action. Doctors said her condition was not serious. |
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