Friday, May 18, 2007

Israeli air strikes add to misery in Gaza

By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem
Published: 18 May 2007

Six Palestinians were killed yesterday and several dozen wounded when Israel unleashed a series of air strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza after a spate of rocket attacks launched by militants into Sderot.

Amid what may prove only a brief lull in the infighting between Hamas and its rival faction Fatah, Israel dropped a bomb on a two-storey building used by the Islamic faction's Executive Force, wounding 45 people, including civilians. Other strikes hit a trailer used by bodyguards of a Hamas official, a car carrying two Hamas militants, and another carrying three people. continue...

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