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Israel air raids target Islamic Jihad in Gaza: Witnesses
2013-04-29
[Al Ahram] Israel's air force carried out three strikes early on Sunday in the Gazoo Strip, targeting radical Paleostinian group Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
 but causing no casualties, witnesses said.
Two Arclight airstrikes hit the southern town of Khan Yunis, targeting positions of the Al-Quds Brigade, the armed wing of Islamic Jihad. The third was near the southern town of Rafah, near the Egyptian border, said the Paleostinian witnesses.

An Israeli army spokeswoman confirmed the air force had carried out strikes in the Gazoo Strip but told AFP she could not give further details.

The Israeli authorities also closed on Sunday until further notice the Kerem Shalom goods crossing following a rocket attack, said the defence ministry.

Israel had not carried out Gazoo Arclight airstrikes since early April, when it launched the first strikes since an Egyptian-brokered truce in November ended a deadly eight-day conflict between the Jewish state and faceless myrmidons of Islamist movement Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, which rules the territory.

On April 19, two rockets fired from the Gazoo Strip hit southern Israel without causing any casualties or damage.
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