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Hamas policemen inspecting the scene where seven Hamas militants were killed in an Israel Air Force missile strike in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday. (Reuters)
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Seven killed in IAF strike on Hamas police headquarters in southern Gaza
By Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent, News Agencies and Haaretz Service
Tags: Gaza, IDF, Qassam, Hamas

At least seven Hamas members were killed Tuesday when an Israel Air Force missile struck a Hamas police headquarters in the southern Gaza Strip, the Islamist group said.

The Israel Defense Forces confirmed the air strike, east of the town of Khan Yunis, in response to Qassam rockets fired from Gaza into southern Israel Tuesday morning, which hit two factories in the southern city of Serot.

Several people were wounded in the IAF strike and some were in critical condition, said Dr. Moaiya Hassanain, a Palestinian Health Ministry official.
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Islam Shahwan, a spokesman for the Hamas police, said the strike hit the police station in the southern Gaza village of Abassan. He said the men were performing afternoon prayers when the building was hit.

A Hamas leader, Sami Abu Zuhri, said Israel would pay a high price for "these crimes."

Also Tuesday, IAF aircraft fired missiles at Palestinian rocket squads in northern Gaza shortly after nightfall, wounding three people, Palestinian security and hospital officials said.

The wounded were civilians, said Palestinian health ministry official Dr. Moaiya Hassanain. The IDF said the target was a Palestinian rocket squad.

Earlier Tuesday, IDF troops killed two Palestinian gunmen from the Hamas movement near the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.

The incidents occurred after a Hamas source said the group's armed wing had claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed a woman and wounded 11 other people in the southern town of Dimona on Monday.

An IDF spokeswoman confirmed the clashes near Rafah, saying: "Troops spotted two suspicious men approaching them and identified hitting them."

IDF troops frequently carry out raids in the Gaza Strip to hunt militants launching rockets at Israel.

Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip in June after routing secular Fatah forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

The attack in Dimona was the first time Hamas' armed wing had claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing inside Israel since August 2004, when 16 people were killed and 100 wounded in explosions on two buses in the southern Israeli city of Be'er Sheva.

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      1.   The martyr town of Sderot. 09:16  |  Harold Lane 05/02/08
      2.   The martyrs of Gaza # 1 10:02  |  Clickfool 05/02/08
      3.   No comment - Just read this. 10:36  |  manny.b 05/02/08
      4.   Idf are not ready? 10:41  |  Vital 05/02/08
      5.   #2 Clickfool 10:52  |  manny.b 05/02/08
      6.   For Manny B # 3 10:55  |  Clickfool 05/02/08
      7.   #2 Clickfool - the Gazan Army and the Israeli Army6 11:10  |  Yonatan 05/02/08
      8.   For Manny B #5 11:15  |  Clickfool 05/02/08
      9.   The IDF should exact a very high price from the Palestinians 11:17  |  Rafi 05/02/08
      10.   #6 I`m so sorry that........................ 11:27  |  manny.b 05/02/08
      11.   The IDF ceases to be a moral and lawful army 11:27  |  Dutch 05/02/08
      12.   #3 Thank you Manny 11:29  |  MaryRose 05/02/08
      13.   Dear Dutch, 11:53  |  manny.b 05/02/08
      14.   #11 doris cadigan and double dutch on international law 11:57  |  v hardman 05/02/08
      15.   It`s not the same .. but actions speak louder than words 11:58  |  Natallie Durson 05/02/08
      16.   #1 Lane /Your text corrected to suit facts 12:01  |  Ismael Yassin 05/02/08
      17.   #1 Lane Converting facts is uncivilized 12:10  |  Ismael Yassin 05/02/08
      18.   #3 Manny 12:34  |  Ismael Yassin 05/02/08
      19.   TO CLICKFOOL # 2 12:37  |  dovale 05/02/08
      20.   To Dutch # 11 12:41  |  dovale 05/02/08
      21.   To Ismael Yassin #16 12:46  |  dovale 05/02/08
      22.   To Ismael Yassin # 17 12:52  |  dovale 05/02/08
      23.   Dovale 12:53  |  Star of David 05/02/08
      24.   The Hamas should pay 12:55  |  Ali Abbas 05/02/08
      25.   #24 Ali Abbas - I wish there were more like you 13:12  |  Yonatan 05/02/08
      26.   CFOOL Worry about the tube train"martyrs",the Glasgow "martyrs" 13:31  |  PETER SM 05/02/08
      27.   Occupation = Terrorism 14:10  |  POP 05/02/08
      28.   israel=biggest terrorist 14:28  |  youknowwho 05/02/08
      29.   #3 Ismael 14:34  |  manny.b 05/02/08
      30.   #27 POP - It`s the opposite way around 14:36  |  Yonatan 05/02/08
      31.   7. dear yonatan. it`s interesting that isr is 14:38  |  bozhidar balkas 05/02/08
      32.   Israelis should stop calling it self-defese, it`s called 14:39  |  Muslim 05/02/08
      33.   #18 Ishmael with additions and not ~3 14:44  |  manny.b 05/02/08
      34.   Clickfool and his "martyrs of Gaza" 14:58  |  Richard D Kaplan, MD 05/02/08
      35.   To muslim #32 15:05  |  dovale 05/02/08
      36.   NATALIE DURSON 15:15  |  MIKE 05/02/08
      37.   #17, actually.... 15:32  |  DR 05/02/08
      38.   Relentless war on terror 15:45  |  Ron 05/02/08
      39.   # 24 Ali Abbas.....Well said 15:59  |  Lynn 05/02/08
      40.   #1 whos martyr? infrastructure? idiot. 16:05  |  . 05/02/08
      41.   #33 manny 16:08  |  Ismael Yassin 05/02/08
      42.   Lynn #39 Hamas is also interested in the opinions of their great- 16:11  |  German muslm 05/02/08
      43.   doesn`t matter what name they give the attackers all must be kill 16:13  |  ralph 05/02/08
      44.   kill more. 16:15  |  frenz 05/02/08
      45.   # 2 Clicky...other then the usual rant 16:21  |  Lynn 05/02/08
      46.   6 islamofascists eliminated, bravo IAF 16:27  |  Jean 05/02/08
      47.   There is always b an "excuse" to assassinate Jews !!! 16:32  |  Alberto Cohen 05/02/08
      48.   Natallie 16:36  |  Neal 05/02/08
      49.   Hamas must be wiped if we want a secure peace 16:39  |  Mawloud Ould Daddah 05/02/08
      50.   to dutch, 11 16:39  |  Igor D. 05/02/08
      51.   #34 Actually not 16:51  |  Outsider 05/02/08
      52.   2 Clickfool here`s the butcher`s bill for one month,the month of 16:51  |  lakshmi 05/02/08
      53.   What Is The Demographic Make Up Of Gaza 16:54  |  Eli 05/02/08
      54.   # 42 German muslim....I read Al Jazeera 16:54  |  Lynn 05/02/08
      55.   # 41 Ismael....we are not living in the middle ages 16:57  |  Lynn 05/02/08
      56.   To51- Outsider, They are against only because this.. 17:04  |  maurice 05/02/08
      57.   aversive consequences 17:06  |  izwick 05/02/08
      58.   Dutch - its a good thing they are only killing terrorist thugs!! 17:14  |  SHIMON 05/02/08
      59.   Dutch #11 - sadly u called in sick to gaza police station thatday 17:15  |  SHIMON 05/02/08
      60.   Peace 17:16  |  Stranger 05/02/08
      61.   Ismael on Zionism 17:16  |  William 05/02/08
      62.   DONT STOP NOW, IDF!!! 17:18  |  SHIMON 05/02/08
      63.   pop 17:21  |  raphael garcia stern 05/02/08
      64.   "1.5 million under attack daily in Gaza" - Ismael#17 17:21  |  William 05/02/08
      65.   why were all those complaining quiet yesterday?!?! hmm.... 17:22  |  SHIMON 05/02/08
      66.   Ismael#41 - on Jews and Arabs in Andulusia 17:27  |  William 05/02/08
      67.   German Muslim, Lynn - blood of Pals on all Muslims 17:33  |  William 05/02/08
      68.   NOT ENOUGH 17:34  |  MJ 05/02/08
      69.   Why are Hamas complaining 17:35  |  British academic 05/02/08
      70.   Payback is a b*tch, isn`t is true Hamas? Sending brainwashed 17:42  |  Marwan مروان خوري 05/02/08
      71.   Has Israel killed ten yet? 17:43  |  Matthew Kretzmer 05/02/08