GAZA (PIC)– Three members of the Qassam Brigades the armed wing of the Hamas Movement were killed at dawn Tuesday in an IOF air raid against their position in Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza Strip.
QB sources told PIC correspondent that the IOF aerial missile strike took place at 0300 am Tuesday and identified the three as Suleiman Al-Hawli Abdul Rahman Abu Gaza and Samir Dakran.
The IOF troops have been focusing their campaign of attacks on the Strip on the Qassam fighters and have killed nine of them over the past couple of days.
The military escalation on the Strip follows the Annapolis conference in the USA during which US president George Bush declared the initiation of final status negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians.