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Palestinians: IDF kills 62-year-old Gazan; 9 Qassams hit Negev
By Avi Issacharoff, Amos Harel and Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondents, and Agencies
Tags: hamas, rafah, gaza, israel

Palestinian medical officials on Thursday said a 62-year-old civilian was killed and three militants wounded by Israel Defense Forces fire, during fighting in Gaza.

The IDF had no immediate comment.

Earlier Thursday, the Israel Air Force killed in an airstrike a Hamas commander in the southern Gaza Strip who was involved in the 2006 abduction of Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit.
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Meanwhile, Gaza militants pounded the western Negev with nine Qassam rockets. One landed on a pavement in the western Negev town of Sderot, while another caused property damage in Kibbutz Nir-Am. No casualties were reported.

Nafez Mansour, the Hamas commander, was killed when an IAF missile struck a car he was traveling in with two other Hamas members in the Rafah refugee camp.

Palestinian health officials said Mansour's 13-year-old son was lightly wounded in the strike, as was a female passerby.

The first missile fired by the IAF aircraft on Thursday missed Mansour's vehicle, and one of the militants escaped unharmed. The third was wounded.

The IDF confirmed it had carried out an air strike in the southern Gaza Strip. An IDF spokesman said Mansour was directly involved in the cross-border raid in June 2006 during which Gaza militants kidnapped Shalit from his IDF post.

According to IDF, Mansour was also involved in the botched terror attack at Kerem Shalom on the Gaza border during Passover last week.

Islamic Jihad initially misidentified the dead man as one of its members because of a confusion with names.

The attack on Mansour came as Egyptian mediators were trying to broker a ceasefire between Palestinian militants and Israel.

On Wednesday, an IAF aircraft attacked a metal workshop in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing an Islamic Jihad top militant and wounding three other people, Palestinian officials said.

Residents said the air strike targeted a metal workshop close to border
crossing with Egypt. Metal workshops are often used by militants to make
homemade rockets.

Nine rockets landed in and around Sderot on Wednesday. In the village of Ge'a next to Ashkelon, a woman was treated for shock when a Qassam rocket landed in her backyard.

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      1.   coincidence? 11:55  |  RM 01/05/08
      2.   The rockets on Israeli territory cannot be tolerated. 12:02  |  Jean Van Daem 01/05/08
      3.   RM - perhaps it has to do with 12:14  |  ChanahS 01/05/08
      4.   RM, Retarded Moron? 12:27  |  Akiva P 01/05/08
      5.   YOU can run but you can`t hide.Your Choice NO PEACE NO RCOGNITION 12:27  |  PETER SM 01/05/08
      6.   RM, absolutely nothing... 12:28  |  Linichka 01/05/08
      7.   Jean Van Daem@#2 12:30  |  Akiva P 01/05/08
      8.   #1 - of course Israel doesn`t want a ceasefire with Hamas! 12:32  |  redmike 01/05/08
      9.   RM " By coincidence" how many qassems have hit Israel 12:51  |  PETER SM 01/05/08
      10.   will hit them everywhere, good job IAF 13:31  |  maurice 01/05/08
      11.   Israel has no right to take the law into its own hands 14:00  |  Dutch 01/05/08
      12.   Sweet justice 14:04  |  Conroy 01/05/08
      13.   Dutch the dullard 14:10  |  Linichka 01/05/08
      14.   All is Fair 14:15  |  Mr. Z. 01/05/08
      15.   #10 Maurice is promoting more state terrorism in response.. 14:20  |  Dutch 01/05/08
      16.   11 Dutch, they have EVERY right...it is WAR 14:20  |  The Equalizer 01/05/08
      17.   Peace activists like this tragic figure are enemies too? 14:45  |  Johnny 01/05/08
      18.   Peter SM you can`t compare Primitive Qassams to Israel` high tech 14:46  |  Dutch 01/05/08
      19.   13 Linichka, Israel is operating outside the law 15:14  |  Dutch 01/05/08
      20.   Shame on you Dutch 15:22  |  Brutus 01/05/08
      21.   Terrorists now worried, "who gave me up?" 15:26  |  SLAVO 01/05/08
      22.   Dutch twisted mind logic 15:30  |  Aby 01/05/08
      23.   Proof of Dutch`s ignorance: 15:37  |  Mark 01/05/08
      24.   #11 Dutch 15:42  |  John Allen, 01/05/08
      25.   #15 dutch, now you have me on a roll! 15:48  |  John Allen 01/05/08
      26.   #11 Dutch is right 15:53  |  Nathan Rai 01/05/08
      27.   9Qassams pound Negev 15:54  |  Gershon Ron 01/05/08
      28.   #23 Mark, you are right on, thanks 15:59  |  John Allen 01/05/08
      29.   # 18 Dutch.....I support the targeting of terrorists 16:05  |  Lynn 01/05/08
      30.   Dutch, a reasonable response 16:19  |  Sam 01/05/08
      31.   Re: Dutch; Israel has every right to take the law into their own 16:25  |  Murray the Mongoose 01/05/08
      32.   Terror vs. Israel`s reactions 16:25  |  Ricardo 01/05/08
      33.   She dosent look like she loves death as much as I love life 16:26  |  Ben 01/05/08
      34.   Dutch`s low tech defense 16:29  |  utagawa 01/05/08
      35.   Who pay this bunch of killers? 16:45  |  georges 01/05/08
      36.   To Dutch 16:49  |  M. 01/05/08
      37.   Nathan Rai, Re: The real tragedy 17:14  |  Dutch 01/05/08
      38.   #19 What a Crock 17:16  |  Douglas Fireman 01/05/08
      39.   #18 Dutch , and others on proportionality 17:16  |  TOMY 01/05/08
      40.   Dutch , since when low applyes only 17:21  |  TOMY 01/05/08
      41.   #12 Sweet Justice indeed 17:22  |  Lynn 01/05/08
      42.   John , The shame of it all today... 17:44  |  Dutch 01/05/08
      43.   It was all "squared" 60 years ago, Dutch! 17:58  |  Linichka 01/05/08
      44.   #1 RM - If the Palestinian`s were so concerned 18:11  |  * BEN JABO 01/05/08
      45.   #39, TOMY...another Palestinian civilian killed by IDF 18:16  |  Silvienne 01/05/08
      46.   #35, georges... 18:19  |  Silvienne 01/05/08
      47.   #41, Lynn... 18:23  |  Silvienne 01/05/08
      48.   Arabs intentionally killed 9 civilians in Iraq - 18:23  |  17 01/05/08
      49.   Dutch #11 - Fundamental mistake 18:31  |  Elihu 01/05/08
      50.   Dutch #18 - You must be kidding 18:41  |  Elihu 01/05/08
      51.   Dutch #37 and 42 - I think I see your problem 19:07  |  Elihu 01/05/08
      52.   Dutch, we can`t live together forget it 19:24  |  Aby 01/05/08
      53.   Paqad 19:33  |  Paul 01/05/08
      54.   What is really wrong with this picture ? 19:54  |  TOMY 01/05/08
      55.   If israel has the right tp protect its people, the 20:04  |  Jaffar 01/05/08
      56.   Arabs intentionally killed 30 more civilians in Iraq 20:20  |  17 01/05/08
      57.   Dutch 20:30  |  Mother Teresa 01/05/08
      58.   Linichka, Re: your broad assumption about Israel`s peacefulness 21:22  |  Dutch 01/05/08
      59.   #55 Jaffar NJ 21:36  |  * BEN JABO 01/05/08
      60.   #46 Georges - Don`t mind Silly Vain 21:44  |  * BEN JABO 01/05/08
      61.   Elihu, My Response.... 22:20  |  Dutch 01/05/08
      62.   Aby, My response 22:46  |  Dutch 01/05/08
      63.   Tit-for-tat not effective for Israel 22:50  |  Josh 01/05/08
      64.   #57, Mother Teresa to Dutch...(from the grave?) 23:00  |  Silvienne 01/05/08
      65.   #48, Iraq is not under discussion, dear 17... 23:02  |  Silvienne 01/05/08
      66.   Dutch, You`ll search todays situation 10 years after 23:18  |  Aby 01/05/08
      67.   is this todays daffy dutch doriss column 23:26  |  v hardman 01/05/08
      68.   57 I imagine the slave owners thought they were moral people too 23:32  |  Dutch 01/05/08
      69.   # 47 Silvienne...don`t you think it would be 00:10  |  Lynn 02/05/08
      70.   # 47 Silvienne...BTW, this is a very leftist site 00:14  |  Lynn 02/05/08
      71.   Lynn, My Response... 00:20