 Two Palestinians were killed and another died of his wounds inflicted by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip early Thursday, a Palestinian security source said. The two, Ali Shaath, 19, and Ahmad Dahawi, 20, were killed when an Israeli helicopter gunship fired a rocket at Rafah refugee camp in the south of the strip, wounding another three people. Two of them, a 65-year-old man and a 70-year-old woman, were seriously injured. Twenty Israeli tanks entered the camp where a bulldozer levelled several houses. At the same time, another Palestinian, Nidal Massud, an activist of radical Palestinian movement Hamas, died of his wounds inflicted earlier by another rocket fired by a helicopter at Jabaliya refugee camp further north. Another Hamas member died in that attack. The latest deaths bring to 123 the total number of Palestinians killed in Gaza since the launch of Israel's Operation Days of Penitence.115 ...118 ...120 ...123 ... |
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