Wednesday, December 28, 2011

One dead, 10 wounded in Israel strikes on Gaza


GAZA CITY: Israeli air strikes killed at least one Palestinian and wounded 10, two seriously, in the Gaza Strip late on Tuesday, Palestinian medics and health officials told.They named the dead man as Abdallah al-Telbani, 22, and said he was riding in a motorised rickshaw in Jabaliya refugee camp in the north of the strip when the attack took place. It was not immediately clear if the other casualties were riding with him.A second strike hit a jeep travelling east of Gaza City, injuring 10 people, health ministry officials said.An Israeli military statement said both strikes were aimed at followers of the hardline jihadi movement.'Following the targeting of a global jihad affiliated terrorist and an additional member... aircraft targeted an additional terrorist squad affiliated with the global jihad terror movement,' it said.It said that a squad targeted in the second raid was known to the military, 'due to its attempt in carrying out a terror attack on the Israel-Egypt border,' but did not elaborate.

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