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Mourners at the funeral of a Hamas militant killed in Gaza Tuesday. (AP)
Last update - 23:02 02/01/2008
IAF strike moderately wounds senior PRC militant in Gaza Strip
By Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondent, and Reuters
Tags: IDF, Israel, Gaza Strip 

A senior militant of the Palestinian Resistance Committees was moderately wounded late Wednesday in an Israel Air Force attack on the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun.

The strike, which targeted a vehicle carrying top PRC members, was jointly orchestrated by the Israel Defense Forces and the Shin Bet security service.

Palestinian witnesses said two other people were lightly to moderately wounded in the attack.
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Meanwhile, the IDF killed seven Hamas, Popular Resistance Committees and Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade militants early Wednesday morning in a joint operation that included both land and air forces.

Palestinians reported that five of the militants were killed by an IAF missile strike while a sixth militant from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade was killed in a gunfight with IDF soldiers on the ground.

The fatalities from the IAF strike were named as Aahad Shimli, Yussef Shimli, Masab Jundia, Abed al-Karim al-Hilu and Hamad Abu Amira. The first four were Hamas militants and the last a member of the Popular Resistance Committee. The sixth militant was killed in a gunfight with troops on the ground.

Hamas's armed wing, Izz el-Deen al-Qassam, vowed after the strike to continue fighting Israel "until victory or martyrdom."

An IDF spokeswoman said the army had targeted the Palestinian gunmen after they fired anti-tank missiles at Israeli troops operating in the area.

The IDF confirmed that troops had operated for a few hours in the area near Gaza City and that they had fired, together with IAF aircraft, at gunmen who shot anti-tank missiles toward the soldiers. The soldiers withdrew shortly after sun-up.

IDF kills Hamas militant

At least one Hamas militant was killed and three others wounded Tuesday by Israel Defense Forces fire near the security fence along the central Gaza Strip.

The army said troops opened fire on a militant cell that was approaching the fence.

Hamas, which controls the Strip, said the man was a member of its security force.


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