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Five Palestinians killed in IOF incursion in central Gaza

Thursday 5-July-2007

GAZA (PIC)– Five Palestinians including three members of the Qassam Brigades the armed wing of the Hamas Movement were killed at dawn Thursday in an IOF incursion near Breij refugee camp in central Gaza.

Tens of IOF armored vehicles backed by warplanes intruded hundreds of meters east of Breij and Maghazi refugee camps and were confronted by Palestinian resistance fighters.

Palestinian sources said that an IOF special unit had earlier occupied high buildings east of Maghazi refugee camp before the incursion.

For its part the armed wing of Hamas said that its fighters clashed with the special IOF unit and fired an RPG at them and another at an Israeli bulldozer.

The QB mourned the death of the three members affirming that the IOF would regret its continued atrocities.

It said that the three martyrs fell in a violent clash with the advancing IOF troops noting that two others were wounded.

Medical sources said that four of the martyrs were identified while the fifth was not yet recognized because the ambulance cars could not evacuate him so far.
 
For its part the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement said that its members engaged an IOF special force in the same area for 15 minutes at 07.48 am local time Thursday from a close distance.
The armed wing said that casualties were inflicted in lines of the force while the Quds Brigades fighters retreated safely.
It further said that two RPGs were unleashed at two IOF armored vehicles east of Maghazi and four mortar shells were fired at the IOF position in Kerem Shalom.

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