9 dead as Israel strikes Gaza after suicide bombing
GAZA CITY - Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed nine Hamas militants on Tuesday as the Jewish state went on high alert a day after the first suicide bombing on its soil by Palestinian militants in a year.
An Israeli air raid hit a police station near the southern Gaza town of Khan Yunis hours after an early morning incursion by soldiers in the nearby border town of Rafah left two Hamas men dead.
Medics said seven militants from the Islamist movement were killed in the late afternoon air strike and another two were wounded.
‘The men were in afternoon prayers inside the police station when the missile struck,’ said a security official for Hamas, which has ruled the Gaza Strip since violently seizing it in June.
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008
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